We finally have some answer’s.
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Topic: We finally have some answer’s.
Posted By: 11111
Subject: We finally have some answer’s.
Date Posted: 13 September 2008 at 12:09pm
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For our Mikey he is allgeric to wheat. we have been battling really bad ezhema on his face for month's. All his allgery test came back neg(except peanut's) whcih we already knew. So I got on the internet and found out that RAST test's don't alway's show up in young children. I spoke to a naturalpath who reccomend we try and cut out wheat from his diet. And what do you know we have for about a month and we only had one major flare up and that is casue he had naughty food one night. So ya for having an answer he still has some ezhema so we have been refered to dietation and skin speciallst at the hospital. We have finally got him a GP that will listen to us rather then jsut keep adding more cream ti the huge collection we already have. It has been so hard watching him suffer for so long with his skin. Also he is very low in iron so on iron med's which is helping boost his immune system. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: soph
Date Posted: 16 September 2008 at 11:27pm
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May I ask you from your experiences? When your son eating wheat product, he get eczema on his face. Is his symptoms is similar to my son? eczema goes bright red as flare up when eating wheat, then face look bit puffy and dark line under eye (look very tired)?
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 September 2008 at 7:27pm
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Deb, the allergy would have made him not absorb iron very well and that's why his iron will be low. So that will come right in time.
Soph I wonder if you have gluten intolerance on your hands instead of a wheat allergy. That would also have likely malabsorbtion (of iron, etc) issues and may be linked to the dark circles? (They can test wheat allergy by a blood test.) -------------  |
Posted By: soph
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 12:32pm
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Busymum, I did think that too about gluten intolerance with both two youngest and mentioned to GP. How I can find out? just by withdrawn wheat from their diet or are there is a test for gluten?
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 12:44pm
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Soph that is exactly how my son is if he has wheat it take's a few day's, but then he has this huge flare up. Get's really irrtable and jsut want's lots of comfort. As for gluten there is a test, but from what I understand (my friend's little one had it) it is pretty invastvie for a yeoung child. I also from waht i understand of glutel isa you will also have other systom's such aas low weaight gain and also upset tummy. I would not listen to the doc's test cause they don't alway's show up. my son's all came back neg. And start elimitating wheat. We have a diffent kid as a result. takes a little bit of an effort, but totally worth it. ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 12:45pm
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Busymum they can test using blood test however it dose not alway's show true we went throgh 2 blood test's and they were both neg, but he deffintly has an allgery to what. ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: soph
Date Posted: 18 September 2008 at 7:30pm
| Thanks, I will give a try withdrawn both off gluten/wheat to see if any benefit. They are due for skin prick on wheat, soy etc in two weeks time. |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 9:02am
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yeah i am going to push for teh skin prick tests cause we had nothing show in the blood's, but I am jsut waiting to see the specialist at the hospital now. Poor wee man has had abad few day's he had some wheat over the weekend and now we are suffering for it his face is a total mess and he is pretty grumpy. As for the recipe book you can send me a private message wit hteh ladies's detail's so I can check it out please I am desprate. ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 9:28am
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Soph, first step for a gluten intolerance is to have a blood test (testing for gliadins in the blood stream I think) if this comes back positive your son will need to have a gastroscopy to confirm the diagnosis although a peadiatrician might suggest a gluten challenge as a non-invasive form of diagnosis it won't diagnose whether he has coeliacs disease or not. Symptoms for coeliacs disease are contradictory (eg diarrhoea and constipation are both symtpoms) and not alway obvious. Check out this site for further details and see if any or all of it matches (nb. coeliacs don't display all symptoms) http://www.colourcards.com/coeliac/ - http://www.colourcards.com/coeliac/ I wasn't diagnosed until I was 26, I was not underweight and many of the symptoms I had were mild and other I would have never put down to gluten in my diet for eg I was on condroitens for joint pain (used by arthritics) by the time I was 24. In hindsight I suffered from it for a long time. The tests to diagnose are invasive but I had gene test done on Michaela a couple of years ago and she carries the gene so I will have her tested when she's older (nb. it's very hard to diagnos in young children because generally they haven't consumed enough gluten to cause major damage to the stomach yet) docs prefer to wait until kids are 3-4yo unless their symptoms are obvious. -------------  
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 19 September 2008 at 11:46am
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that is awsome to know i was only going on what my friend went through wif her wee girl.
------------- Deborah Mum to:
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