7 month old vomiting after grains

[Caittune]

I gave my dd some rice cereal about a month ago (on advice from doc for starting solids) it seemed to give her gas and cause some constipation issues. She didn't poop for a week after a couple of days of a teaspoon of cereal made with mommy milk.

I decided (maybe wrongly) to try oatmeal instead because I thought it might have less of a constipating effect. That was last week. Within two hours of eating about a tablespoon of food (she loved it and would have eaten more, but we cut her off LOL) she was vomiting. She vomited until her tummy was empty and she had only bile. So no food for a couple of days. I started back in with some apple sauce which went over fine. She's still not pooping much but I sort of expect that when starting solids?

I decided to try rice again because DD seems to prefer a thicker consistency of food so we used some rice cereal to thicken some apples I'd made. This was monday. It was a different brand of rice cereal than the original trial.

Within an hour or two (at the most) she was vomiting again. She vomited every 5 minutes until her stomach was empty and she was dry heaving.

I took her to the doctor yesterday and got a very un-reassuring "gee that is weird!" Her only thought was a wheat sensitivity or maybe gluten. She suggested trying the rice cereal again as a trial in a couple of days but that really goes against my instincts.

WWYD? I'm considering leaving grains all together for another month or so and then maybe then doing a home made rice cereal so I know there are no additives. I'm having an issue right now too because we are in the middle of a kitchen reno so I have absolutely no place to prepare food so she's been getting actual baby food as opposed to my home made stuff.

Sorry this is so long. I'm hoping I'm over reacting, but it has been really hard to watch her feel so yucky after something I fed her.

[blessedwithboys]

I would wait until after on eyear to try grain again, maybe even longer. Grains are very hard on a infant's stomach, they are naturally highly undigestable. You could try soaking your grains before cooking, but really I wouldn't even think about them again for a very long time.

Also, you maybe want to consider probiotics to compensate for all the vomiting.

[texaspeach]

check the ingredients on the cereals, I read yesterday on the wholesomebabyfood facebook page that a lot of infant cereal contains soy. infant cereal isn't necessary - we skipped it. ds does eat grains- he is allergic to wheat but eats other grains- but it is the same thing the rest of the family eats.

[rhesp1212]

I was going to say what the PP said....the baby food grains are almost all laced with soy. If you want to try rice cereal again, maybe try pureeing your own homemade rice or check the malto-meal type of rice cereal in the regular cereal isle. Excessive vomiting like that would definitely indicate either an allergy or intolerance in most cases. I would stop them completely and maybe try some that are organic, pure with no other additives in them.

[mommy2maya]

the baby that my mom babysits for has FPIES, which causes him to projectile vomit after eating grains, also constipates him terribly.

[angelachristin]

that sounds like FPIES to me too, my DD has it and we ended up in the ER because the vomiting can put them into shock. If this happens again, watch your baby very closely and if she seems lethargic, cold, sweaty, pale with pale lips, you really should take her to the ER to have an IV of fluids. Mine was admitted overnight because she was so badly dehydrated from her reaction. They couldn't believe that she had become that dehydrated from only starting to vomit a half hour before our arrival in the ER, but she was and she was in shock. Very scary.

[Caittune]

Wow, sorry I couldn't come back before now. I went back and looked at the ingredients like Texaspeach suggested, and one said it contained soy and the other said "possible" soy. So much for them being "single ingredient" baby starter foods.

She did get very lethargic after vomiting both times but we chalked it up to it being late in the day and her exhaustion. She was sweaty but it was hot...

Dummy us for giving foods in the afternoon/evening instead of morning like I did with my older girl.

She's been straining to pass stools today and hasn't managed to have a proper bowel movement in a few days. She has passed some rather noxious gas.

Because of all of this, I've backed off of solids completely again. She didn't seem interested at all yesterday when I offered her some sweet potatoes so I didn't push it she had maybe half a teaspoon.

So should I be pushing for a pediatrician visit or an allergist? Would they take my word for it on 2 incidents? I mean my GP's oh so reassuring "gee that is weird" and suggestions to trial the rice again just make me kind of cringe.

[angelachristin]

I would hold off on all grains until she is over 1 year, as babies guts can't really digest them until then anyway. Rice is known to be a FPIES trigger, but just about anything can be, really. My DD's trigger is thought to be eggs (I say thought to be because her reaction was caused by a pancake with multiple ingredients, but she reacted less severely to egg once before, so my instinct tells me it was the egg in the pancake). I would just hold off on all grains like I said and do her solids very slowly, I'd do only fruits and vegetables until over a year old and then see. Most docs and allergists haven't heard of FPIES and your LO's reaction sounds like a classic FPIES reaction.

http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org...spre.php?id=99