help with these symptoms?

[PancakeGoddess]

Hi - Apologies if I've overlooked any stickies that may answer my question - I haven't been around in a while.

Our concerns about our 7yo are:

- bedwetting (not our biggest concern, pretty sure he'll outgrow this)

- pooping accidents (pretty much, if we don't sit him down on the toilet twice/day whether he wants to or not, he will poop in his pants)

- impulsiveness (more than is age-appropriate)

- colds/flus more often than other kids, last longer than for others

We know he has a significant dust allergy, but that's all we know of. He didn't test positive for major food allergies.

I'd like to experiment with removing something, and dairy seems most likely (his older brother was sensitive at this age), but he already hardly has any dairy! His older brother was VERY into it, so that made sense. This boy just doesn't drink milk. He does have the occasional cheese stick, yogurt or pizza.

Wheat/gluten could be another - would be much more difficult to eliminate.

We have four children, two are teens, so removing foods from all or just one - it's going to be drama

Thanks for any thoughts!

Amy

[kjbrown92]

It depends how often he has dairy. For my DS, he would react for 4 days to the ingestion of "any" dairy (like a cheese stick, or a piece of pizza, etc.). So if he eats something with dairy in it every 4 days so that it's pretty much always in his body, then I'd say yes. If it's all the time, and there are other foods that he eats every day, then I'd say those may be more likely. The most common food intolerances are dairy, gluten, soy and corn in that order. I have three kids of varying ages, two are on different restricted diets (the 9yo couldn't eat chicken and turkey for instance and the 4yo couldn't eat beef) and the teenager can eat anything she wants. It's a pain but manageable, and it was explained that those were their diets. That being said, we make a lot of meals that everyone can have. Breakfasts and school lunches are individual. For me, health trumps drama, no matter how much drama there is (and in my family there can be plenty). I just want to get them healed so that they can eat anything and not have horrible effects from them.