This is truly at the heart of H and mine's disagreement. DS has had 3 distinct reactions to wheat in his life. First, as a newborn (then I cut out wheat, 6 days later ALL symptoms clear. I don't know how much more clear-cut that could get). Then later around 1yo when he was getting wheat at daycare, then just recently when we were trialing wheat and I gave him about 2-3 tbsp of wheat berries in one day and he threw up 3 times that night.
H thinks that since he has no noticeable reactions with smaller amounts, that smaller amounts are fine. I wholeheartedly disagree with this as we do not know what it may be doing to his insides, even if we can't see any outward signs (first full day of wheat trial a few weeks ago, his tummy did hurt that evening. Other than that no noticeable signs (not even red ring rash) until he got the wheat berries and then threw up. He did actually get the red ring rash last week with oatmeal.
Questions:
--why was he showing no outward signs for almost 3 weeks (except the first day when I estimate that he DID ingest more wheat than on the other days, then his tummy hurt) and then when I feed him the wheat berries (pure form of wheat) he has a strong reaction?
--are there any scientific studies that go over this sort of thing? If he ingests smaller amounts of processed wheat and shows no signs of irritation, how do I know it's not doing any internal or long term damage?
I'm trying to find out more info but there doesn't seem to be much scientific stuff out there.
H thinks that since he has no noticeable reactions with smaller amounts, that smaller amounts are fine. I wholeheartedly disagree with this as we do not know what it may be doing to his insides, even if we can't see any outward signs (first full day of wheat trial a few weeks ago, his tummy did hurt that evening. Other than that no noticeable signs (not even red ring rash) until he got the wheat berries and then threw up. He did actually get the red ring rash last week with oatmeal.
Questions:
--why was he showing no outward signs for almost 3 weeks (except the first day when I estimate that he DID ingest more wheat than on the other days, then his tummy hurt) and then when I feed him the wheat berries (pure form of wheat) he has a strong reaction?
--are there any scientific studies that go over this sort of thing? If he ingests smaller amounts of processed wheat and shows no signs of irritation, how do I know it's not doing any internal or long term damage?