Ovi is going to be 4 in a month. He is dairy and tree nut allergic, and we suspect shellfish as well. He has consistently gained weight except for when I was PG with DS2 and had no milk (he still nurses what I guesstimate to be about 16 ounces a day.) However, he is short, skinny, pale, iron-deficient, and slow to grow hair (I cut his brothers two times for his ever once.) He has loose bowel movements all the time. Cutting back on fruit (very hard to do), adding kombucha, using a digestive enzyme... these things seem to maybe help somewhat.
He had an issue over the past year of rectal bleeding, and when it got bad enough that there was blood dripping into the toilet, even though we were at the end of a 5 month gluten elimination period, we added it back in to get ready for a celiac blood test. We also did the Entero Labs test. We also made an appointment with a Peds GI doc.
The EnteroLabs test reported that he does have heightened anti-gliadin IgA and elevated anti-tissue transglutaminase IgA as well. He did not appear to be malabsorbing, however.
The blood test revealed nothing, except for that he is more anemic than he was a year ago.
Now to the point: the Peds GI said that the bleeding is probably due to fissures (I agree) which are likely caused by the chunks of undigested food in his stool passing through his system too quickly (I also agree.) But he then said that this is "completely normal." He seemed especially encouraged by the fact that Ovi has only 1 bowel movement a day. He said that Ovi probably just has intestines that have "rapid transit time" and that it is easier to see undigested food because the stool is so loose.
He said he absolutely positively does not have celiac disease, and that he probably isn't gluten sensitive either.
Advice? We are on gluten, mainly because my biggest problem with Ovi and food right now that the bleeding has stopped is getting him to eat anything other than fruit. He used to show signs of being a little salicylate sensitive, so I hate feeding him fruit. But it seems better than not feeding him anything.
He had an issue over the past year of rectal bleeding, and when it got bad enough that there was blood dripping into the toilet, even though we were at the end of a 5 month gluten elimination period, we added it back in to get ready for a celiac blood test. We also did the Entero Labs test. We also made an appointment with a Peds GI doc.
The EnteroLabs test reported that he does have heightened anti-gliadin IgA and elevated anti-tissue transglutaminase IgA as well. He did not appear to be malabsorbing, however.
The blood test revealed nothing, except for that he is more anemic than he was a year ago.
Now to the point: the Peds GI said that the bleeding is probably due to fissures (I agree) which are likely caused by the chunks of undigested food in his stool passing through his system too quickly (I also agree.) But he then said that this is "completely normal." He seemed especially encouraged by the fact that Ovi has only 1 bowel movement a day. He said that Ovi probably just has intestines that have "rapid transit time" and that it is easier to see undigested food because the stool is so loose.
He said he absolutely positively does not have celiac disease, and that he probably isn't gluten sensitive either.
Advice? We are on gluten, mainly because my biggest problem with Ovi and food right now that the bleeding has stopped is getting him to eat anything other than fruit. He used to show signs of being a little salicylate sensitive, so I hate feeding him fruit. But it seems better than not feeding him anything.
