Healing Leaky Gut and IgG Allergies???

[Kraysmommy]

Hi Mamas,

I don't post here much as you can tell from my avi, but I am in need of some help.

DD is 19 months and was just retested for her IgG reactions. She got worse in a lot of areas and we are now avoiding so many things it just seems out of control. Dairy, gluten, peanuts, almonds, cashews, black walnuts, soy, sesame, flax, egg whites, pineapple, mango...and more.

She has leaky gut, and I need to start her healing. I just would love some advice. I've been just so overwhelmed the last few days.

We are still nursing too, and I am torn that I may have been making her worse. I drink one cup of coffee in the morning and usually have a glass of wine at night. Maybe once every other month I will take a Tylenol if all other natural remedies have failed.

I don't want to wean, but I don't want to make her worse either. She definitely has a worse reaction from my milk if I have eaten the food, then if she eats something herself. How can that be? When she eats it she's better in two days. Through me she sometimes reacts 4 or 5 days.

Thank you for reading.

Kelly

[mamafish9]

When you eat something, it first has to clear your body (which can take several days) and then clear hers - so that's why you sometimes get a worse reaction with what you eat.

I don't know if it helps you to feel less alone, but most of the mamas on this forum have a list of foods to avoid at least that long.

When she is off all her IgG identified foods, is she at "baseline" (no sleep, behavior, digestive, or skin symptoms)? The first step to gut healing is to get all the offending foods out of both your diets.

Next step would be to work on nutrients - I like supps for this - trace minerals, extra mag, A, D, K2, C, B complex, B12 (sublingual). The B complex can go through breastmilk, the rest I'd try to give to her directly. Deficiencies in any of those can cause gut issues. How is her poop, do you see undigested foods?

[JaneS]

Probiotics, essential fatty acids (high vitamin CLO if tolerated) and glutamine too.

I would definitely cut out the wine and coffee and foods she reacts to from your diet if you want to continue to bf. Believe me I know it's hard!!!

Have you come across the food chemicals family? My DS seemed like he was reacting to everything and once I learned about salicylates it was a huge help and he finally got to baseline. Food chemical intolerance does not involve the immune system so they would not show up on an IgG test yet still can cause gut inflammation.
www.plantpoisonsandrottenstuff.com

Artifical vitamins with food colors can be an issue too so go slow and careful on supps... do you give her a regular kids vitamin?

Has she been tested for IgE? I'm wondering if she could also be allergic to some nuts/seeds in trace amounts in foods that are cross contaminated (made on same equipment) too. If you are IgE you won't necessarily test positive for IgG.

[Kraysmommy]

Originally Posted by mamafish9

When you eat something, it first has to clear your body (which can take several days) and then clear hers - so that's why you sometimes get a worse reaction with what you eat.

I don't know if it helps you to feel less alone, but most of the mamas on this forum have a list of foods to avoid at least that long.

When she is off all her IgG identified foods, is she at "baseline" (no sleep, behavior, digestive, or skin symptoms)? The first step to gut healing is to get all the offending foods out of both your diets.

Next step would be to work on nutrients - I like supps for this - trace minerals, extra mag, A, D, K2, C, B complex, B12 (sublingual). The B complex can go through breastmilk, the rest I'd try to give to her directly. Deficiencies in any of those can cause gut issues. How is her poop, do you see undigested foods?

We've gotten close to baseline but I don't know her 'normal' since she has been reactive since birth. She never sleeps longer than two hours, mostly she wakes every 30 minutes or so. I am a bad sleeper and my son was a bad sleeper but every 30 minutes is ridiculous!

We are currently taking 2000 iu of vit D, and I take a B complex. Also she gets probiotics and fatty acids. I do see undigested foods in her poop pretty often. Her main symptoms from a reaction include mucus stools and eventually blood (after back to back reactions.)

Thanks for your response.

[Kraysmommy]

Originally Posted by JaneS

Probiotics, essential fatty acids (high vitamin CLO if tolerated) and glutamine too.

I would definitely cut out the wine and coffee and foods she reacts to from your diet if you want to continue to bf. Believe me I know it's hard!!!

Have you come across the food chemicals family? My DS seemed like he was reacting to everything and once I learned about salicylates it was a huge help and he finally got to baseline. Food chemical intolerance does not involve the immune system so they would not show up on an IgG test yet still can cause gut inflammation.
www.plantpoisonsandrottenstuff.com

Artifical vitamins with food colors can be an issue too so go slow and careful on supps... do you give her a regular kids vitamin?

Has she been tested for IgE? I'm wondering if she could also be allergic to some nuts/seeds in trace amounts in foods that are cross contaminated (made on same equipment) too. If you are IgE you won't necessarily test positive for IgG.

We have not come across salicylates, I will look into that. We don't eat artificial colors, I started giving her a multi in the last month. She has been IgE tested, she came back with dairy, peanuts, and some environmental items. Her peanut, dairy, and gluten reactions are her worst and last the longest.

She doesn't seem to react to the wine or coffee, I just read somewhere that could make leaky gut worse. I quit drinking in July before I miscarried and I didn't notice a difference in Karma (DD) but maybe I should start journaling. I could cut the coffee pretty easily, I would be sad over the wine however.

Thank you for your help.