For those with corn intollerances:

[RMM1117]

What are/were the symptoms? I am keeping a food diary for my 13 month old DD and I *think* I'm seeing a pattern with corn/corn products such as tortilla chips and corn and quinoa pasta blend.


TIA!

[goldenwillow]

I am interested in knowing what symptoms your babe has.  Corn is the last culprit in our home for myself and DS. 

[RMM1117]

Xantho-I have been keeping a food diary (while already omitting dairy and gluten) and corn seems to be a trigger.  Her symptoms seem to be skin issues (very red cheeks and keratosis on cheeks, legs and arms), not sleeping at all, gastro issues and extreme fussiness.  I dont feel like I have enough data in my food diary yet, but it seems like I am seeing a pattern. 

What should I do now?  Obstain from all corn products for a few weeks and then re-introduce?  I already know dairy is a true issue from a previous 6 month elimination, but the gluten is new.  I just randomly picked gluten this elimination since I have always felt there was something else besides just dairy.  Its only been over a week for those this time (I know a week isnt a long time for dairy.)  The corn is something I wasnt expecting but am seeing a pattern when looking back through my food diary, since I havent been eating any gluten I have been consuming a little more corn products (nachos for dinner, chips and salsa for snacks, corn and quinoa pasta blend, and a soda with corn syrup (not something I usually do, moment of weakness.) ect.) 

[goldenwillow]

Interesting. 

I have been gluten free for about 7 years and honestly have been thinking about the corn issue a ton.  DS has been pretty fuss muss at night and we do eat non-gmo corn chips when our handmade ones are gone.  I sprout and make our corn tortillas.  DS also eats corn/quinoa noodles occasionally.  How about grains for your family?  Geez....  now what can we eat!  Thank you for the inspiration to weed the corn out....  will be in touch as I am interested to see how this works out for your family as well.   

[RMM1117]

Xantho-I dont know about inspiration!-I am over here having mini breakdowns!  As far as grains go, I dont think we have every had a problem.  At the beg. of this elimination I just picked gluten since I was at a loss for what else it could be in addition to the dairy.  I am vegetarian so that has left me with rice and corn products, as well as veggies and legumes of course.  The reason I felt like it was something else in addition to the dairy was bc when I was completely dairy free for 6 months some of her symptoms did improve (her severe reflux improved by like 85%) but the one that never changed was her poops.  Very green with tons of mucous (even when dairy was eliminatied and I didnt have any foremilk/hindmilk issues.)  So, when I started this elimination again last week (I should have never gotten back on dairy 4 months ago, it was a dumb thing to do, these past 4 months have been really bad) I just figured I would pick something else too and see what happened.  And here I am.  I cant seem to find as much info. on the internet for corn intolerance or corn allergy as I can find for other top offender foods.

[RMM1117]

No one else with corn symptoms?

[lyterae]

When we finally quit corn this fall, here are the improvements DD had :

1.) Constant coughing - gone

2.) Cradle cap - gone

3.) Constipation - gone

As a result of the coughing improving about 80% (I'm still missing "something") her sleep has improved as well.

[changingseasons]

DD is allergic (not intolerant), but her corn symptoms are all sleep and behavior related.  It makes her crazy.  Symptoms will be different for each person though.

[RMM1117]

Thanks for the replies!

Changingseasons-May I ask what the behavioral syptoms were?  My DD (13 months) is fussy all.the.time, will not nap (30 mins a day) and wakes up a lot at night.  Did your DD have any skin symptoms?

[kjbrown92]

My DD2's corn symptoms were fussiness, eczema on her legs, waking/crying at night. She's been corn free for 4 years. DS and I have been corn free for 2.5 years. It's one of the top 4 food intolerances (dairy, gluten, soy, corn, in that order). It's very hard to avoid though because it's under so many names: dextrose, maltodextrin, xanthan gum, citric acid, ascorbic acid, cellulose, modified food starch, etc. I've called/emailed a lot of companies asking for information. For grains we do buckwheat, millet, sorghum, rice, sweet potato starch, tapioca stach. And I'm just bringing back qunioa, since my kids were sensitive to that too.

[sraplayas]

DS's symptoms are angry red ring, overall burned look in diaper area, mushy or mucousy bm, lightbulb excema (instead of bumping skin color it looks super irritate and sometimes there are spots that look like bites) and mood changes--more aggressive and fussy.

He is currently taking lots of good things to hopefully heal his body from the corn allergy (we can hope!) and maybe one day he'll be able to eat a proper fish taco!

[changingseasons]

Honestly, I'm not sure.  We took corn out of our diet a long time ago, and when we trialed it this year we didn't give it long enough to progress to any skin symptoms.  So she might have eventually had other symptoms, but her immediate symptoms were behavioral- getting really overly sensitive, aggressive, hyper, altogether just crazy, CRAZY toddler that was no fun to be around.