could a wheat allergy cause repeated vomiting in 12 month old?

[caedmyn]

I'm pretty certain my 12 month old is reacting to some whole wheat oatmeal cookies I ate last night. I put her to bed around 8:30 and ate the cookies around 10 pm. She woke up at around 1:30 am and nursed. Around 2:30 am she woke again and was poopy (she poops in the middle of the night when she's reacting to something I ate). I changed her and tried to nurse her to sleep...more poops. Changed her again and she went to sleep without nursing again. She woke at around 6:30 and pooped some more and then I nursed her back to sleep. She woke again around 8:30 and pooped a little more (green diarrhea with a bit of blood in it--I think her poor little butt is probably pretty sore by now). A few minutes later she threw up. I nursed her afterwards and she threw up again maybe 30 minutes later.

I'm not sure if all of this is related to the wheat or if she is actually sick--the last time I ate whole wheat she pooped once in the middle of the night and was really restless that night (which is her usual reaction to foods I eat that she reacts to). This time she wasn't restless, more listless.

If anyone's wondering, this is the first time I've been sure that it was wheat she was reacting to--there are always other foods I eat when I eat wheat that I don't normally eat, so it's hard to tell what she's reacting to, plus she barely reacts to products made with white flour, so that confused me, too. Apparently whole wheat is really hard on her system.

[Aletheia]

My son seems to have an allergy to oats-- could that have compicated the whole wheat reaction?

[wendy1221]

That's exactly Liam's wheat reaction. Poop and poop until his poor little butt is completely red and raw and very painfull. A lot of kids react more strongly to whole grains than they do to refined.

Wheat is a more common allergy than oats, although oats is fairly common as well.

[caedmyn]

Do they tend to have the same or similar reactions to a food every time? This was quite a different reaction than she's had in the past, and the last time I ate ww was maybe a week before that, which is why I wonder if she had some sort of virus, too.

[arelyn]

I don't have a baby yet but I do have a celiac husband and his celiac reactions are very similar and do vary depending on what he ate. WW is harder for him to handle too. The color change seems weird though. DH says his remain constant throughout (to the best of his knowlege as he doesn't dwell on these things and is giving me the "You're so weird look" ).