How many of you had abx? and vaccines? UPDATED - Page 3

[tanyalynn]

I definitely think the whole issue is multi-faceted, but given that babies born by c-section, and by extension GBS babies, (because neither are getting the proper beneficial bacteria at birth) have a higher incidence of allergies than others, it seems to be a big factor in the recent explosion of food allergies. GBS abx have only been being given routinely for the past 10 years or so and we all know how common C-sections are becoming.

I think you're totally right. I really do think that all these things that have such potential to mess with gut flora are a) being overlooked for the most part by mainstream medicine, and b) really hurting a lot of kids and families.

Tanya, did your LO not react to foods through your breastmilk? That would show whether or not your gut was "leaky", because if proteins were being digested as they should, they wouldn't pass through a permeable gut into blood and breastmilk.

This never occurred to me! That's brilliant--maybe it should've been obvious, but it hasn't been to me. As a way to figure out if it was my gut or not (I spent a lot of time reading here, wondering about that). And no, my son didn't get rashes until he started eating solids, he was 7, almost 8 months when he started eating solid food, and I pretty much went straight to table food for him, just adjusting the texture as he needed it. It took me many months to figure out that a) the rashes around his mouth were a food reaction, and b) to figure out what the foods were. My daughter has never had rashes, so I didn't connect starting solids (he probably got some cashews as cashews butter pretty quickly, chocolate much later and much less frequently) with the rashes he got--I just figured he had sensitive skin.

But I've wondered if there aren't some food allergies/intolerances that are a bit different, wheat/gluten and milk/casein, maybe others. I _did_ notice some mild fussiness when my son was young (<4mo) when I consumed wheat and cow's milk (not cheese), but when he was 4mo (advice of our old chiro) added those back in, quickly and in great quantity, and didn't notice any problems. And even before 4 months, I ate cashews regularly (we used to snack on mixed nuts) and I didn't see any reaction for my son. So as to gut health and intolerances, for my daughter, for example, with really typical gluten intolerance symptoms--can that ever completely go away? I really don't know.