Can allergies cause constipation?

Poor wee Ollie is permanently constipated. He was on special formula for constipation when he was a baby, and now he just seems to be getting worse than ever. We try not to give him things like cheese, and too many carbs... we stick to fruit and veges. He eats probiotic prune yoghurt every day mixed with Kiwicrush. When he has a bottle it is half cows milk and half water, and I add two teaspoons of Benefibre. He also has Duphalac and Coloxyl drops.

I'm getting to my wits end - the poor guy gets no relief and strains for days before he does a poo, and he gets so upset. I'm pretty sure he has little haemmrhoids (sp) because sometimes there is a bit of blood I'm not really sure what else I can do for the poor little guy, anyone else getting his treatment would be going like nothing else! I've booked a Dr's appointment tomorrow, I really need them to take me seriously this time because nothing is working

I was wondering if anyone knew if allergies cause constipation? The doctors and pharmacists that I have talked to all say that allergies tend to cause the bowel to go the other way.

Mum_me, who do you go to with your muscle testing? I presuming it's the same thing we do. We see a guy in Rotorua

head smacking moment!!!! I've been thinking that I need to take the whole family up to see him & can friggin do it myself. I tend to limit it with the kids as I got an electric shock from DH & I doing it on A.

Yeah it's weird alright!

And I am cutting out wheat, I skin prick to it, last night I wheezed after 15min & Littlebug you'll be interested this bit...this morning I was in the toilet for a long time, so yes you could be right in wheat constipating you. Here I was blaming it on Chocolate & I had none yesterday.

We don't seem to have any symptoms of food allergy or intolerance except for the constipation. Will see how we go with the new laxative script from the Dr... although poor wee boy has a vomiting bug at the moment so can't even give him that, and not getting any fluids is going to make him even worse.

If things don't pick up soon, I will print out that sheet and take it to the Dr and point some things out, and see if we can get started investigating something.

What is the muscle test thing?