When your child is allergic to SO MUCH!!! - Page 2

[HaveWool~Will Felt]

Chanley,
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the fact the veganism would make it really hard for ds....and the rest of us too....
He loves pork, eggs, etc....
This transition isn't all the hard for him...we actually eat very whole food already.

In regards to the juice issue....my kids rarely get to have juice. If they get any kind of juice (with fruit) it usually is spinach/strawberry juice that I have made for them fresh.

I also agree with the fact that we miss out on so much fiber with juicing...
Mainly we juice veggies, wheatgrass, parsley.

Tonight we had grilled tiger prawns, steamed broccoli, carrots and mushrooms with brown rice.
Everyone seems to be liking it....Like I said, this isn't out of the norm for us.


Confession? I haven't bought jello is like 20 years. :LOL I am sure that topic of gelatin isn't related to "jello"....
When you, Chanley, talked about homemade jello, are you using plain gelatin like "Knox" and then adding your own juice to it?

[Missy]

Chanley--

If gluten is in all grains, I'm very confused because of the number of "gluten-free" breads on the market. Quinoa, corn, millet, arrowroot, and sorghum are considered gluten-free grains because they do not contain both gliadin and glutenin. Gliadin and glutenin are both components of gluten, but, as I understand it, if gliadin is not present, it's no longer gluten. If gliadin alone is present, while it still isn't pure gluten, it's just as dangerous.

I'm not a scientist, though, or a nutritionist and all my research has been done just in the last few years to keep my son safe, so I might have misinterpreted some of the studies and other materials I've read.

Missy

[Chanley]

I will have to dig around but my understanding that it is NOT gluten per se but a certain TYPE of gluten we have to be careful with because of the peptide sequences. Barley wheat oats etc...have a peptide sequence w/i the gliadin which we react to.


I am sure you have seen glutenous rice. GLuten exists in all grains but the gluten we have to be careful with is the ones in barley wheat blah blah blah.

I will dig aroudn for someone else who can illuminate this for you.

[Missy]

Chanley--this is one the pieces that I've seen that defined gluten and its components:

http://www.wholefoods.com/products/celiacdisease.html

But, you're right. I have seen glutenous rice.

Off to figure that one out...

[Missy]

Aha!

Glutenous rice doesn't contain gluten. The term glutenous, in this case and several others, refers strictly to the texture--it's sticky. And the word is derived from the Latin (I think) word for glue.

[Jessica36]

Wow! That is a big list, but glad you decided to go the route of seeing what he can eat! Check out the board in my sig below, under FA's it will help you with more choices too!

[JaneS]

What about lamb? That is traditionally easy to digest and recommended for allergy/elimination diets.
We make lamb burgers from ground lamb (free range) and also do lamb steaks in the crockpot with a little water and onions, it comes out as tender shredded meat that is very versatile with a terrific broth that makes a good soup with rice and carrots.

[Satori]

How do they know he's allergic to all this? You could be getting false positives. Have you done an elimination and challenge? That's going to be the only way to rule out what he's actually reacting too. For example I test extremely allergic to tumble weeds but they dont do a thing to me. I scored very low for milk allergy yet it causes life threatening asthma attacks.

[HaveWool~Will Felt]

To answer your question about how do we know????
We don't....
The few things that I truly know he is totally allergic to are oranges, wheat and grass/pollen.

The others listed, I did decide to do an elimination with.

I do agree with you....you just never know and it only helps to do some work to really find out!!!!