Do you have your child on a wheat-free diet??

Alot of children are misdiagnosed with food allergies. Depending on the age of your child, and the severity of his symptoms, they may want to perform a skin pr-ck test to determine if he is allergic or intolerant of wheat, or any other food proteins, such as soy, milk, nuts, egg etc. At three months old, my son was in constant pain and was completely hysterical 20 out of every 24 hour period. I took him to every doctor, paedetrician, gastroenterologist I could find, and he was misdiagnosed with colic, reflux etc etc etc... you name it, they tried to pin it on him. Eventually they determined he was allergic to cows milk and soy milk protein, and eliminating all traces of those products from his diet, by placing him on a specialist formula and only introducing food s that didn't contain those proteins, had a HUGE impact. He slept through the night, was no longer gassy all the time and no longer in pain. A completely different child. He is now almost one and a half and after a series of food challenges, and a skin pr-ck test, he has outgrown his soy milk protein allergy, and is only slighlty sensitive to cows milk protein. YAY!I was told he may have problems with other food allergies particularly things like nuts, egg, wheat and fish, but he has been fine with all of those. You could do a challenge, by eliminating all traces of wheat from your childs diet for a period of two weeks and seeing if that impacts on his symptoms in anyway, but I would recommend getting a doctors advice, particularly an allergy specialist, first. Alot of people tend to jump on the new fad bandwagon without proper diagnosis of a food allergy. Hope this helps a little, good luck, I hope you rlittle one is feeling better soon:)

I wish I could help you sweety, you know I would if I could but I am afraid that I do not have any experience or much knowledge about wheat free diets! I will say that if you are worried though follow your instincts and try leaving wheat out of your sons diet to see if it makes a difference! Some of Niamhs allergies are very apparent but she also has a sensitivity to milk - she can drink a little but if she overdoes it she comes out with horrible, itchy blotches. It took us a while to realise that it was milk that caused this but with patience and excluding certain foods one at a time we confirmed it was definitely milk! Good Luck Sweety I hope someone can help! xxx

Hi makingpots, My four year old grandson is autistic, and my daughter-in-law has considered putting him on a wheat-free diet. I believe she may still be planning on looking into this, but he's not on this diet, as of yet. It seems this problem with wheat, affects special needs kids, as well as non special needs. I wish I could be of more help, but maybe if my daughter-in-law decides that this is the route to take with her son, the two of you can compare notes. She's already a member of myLot.

I am interested if you hear anything on this. I hadn't heard about this before, but periodically my daughter has the same problem. Very hard bowel movements and sometimes constipation - kind of - more that it hurts her enough that she just doesn't want to go. If you hear anything back on this, I would love to hear anything you find. If nothing else, just for reference to ask my doctor next time we go.