Guest guest Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 ok let me take a stab at this. - what are the allergy tests showing? Are there significant intolerances? My son never tested intolerant of gluten or casein. Yet he reacted to them. We've started adding them back in and found that he's not reacting to them. The same for eggs - in things, he's ok. By themselves, they might cause a bit of behavior. His allergy tests do show a sensitivity to certain nuts, garlic, eggs and brewers yeast. If I give him beef from Whole Foods, there's no behavior reaction. If I use beef from our local store, there is. Perhaps it's something used on the beef? antibiotics? Your child may not be showing a sensitive immune system. My son was - highly reactive. but today, his immune panels are much better. Sometimes, when you take something out you replace it with something else like soy for milk. Soy can be just as reactive as milk. AND over time, an intolerance of soy can happen. Same thing with rice flour. Ask Dr G or what the logic is for discontinuing the diet. Where is the medical proof for/against the diet? Getting official tests are not always good either because you can have false positives. Your son's immune system may be so sensitive and on-alert that it's reacting .... If you don't understand, ask ask ask :-) Sometimes you have to chip away at Dr G before you get the answer you seek :-) He has the answers but perhaps he can't explain why doris land Posted by: " Cheryl Lowrance " c.lowrance@... <mailto:c.lowrance@...?Subject=%20Re%3ACan%20someone%20please%20explain%20\ this%3F%3F> midian42 <midian42> Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:30 pm (PST) At our last appointment we got G's allergy panel back and of course, it was awful. He's very allergic to a bunch of foods. Dr. G wanted to know what he ate throughout the week and based on the report, I am basically feeding him a gluten, casein, egg, peanut and sunflower free diet. When I e-mailed him what foods he is now eating and let him know that everything was gfcf I got a message back from saying he didn't want him on a GFCF diet. What?!? I understood his reasoning and I agreed with him before that I didn't want to do gfcf and had no intention of going gfcf unless I found out I needed to do so. When I got that panel back, I kind of saw it as a need to go gfcf. It makes sense to me, if he's allergic, don't feed it to him. But he's telling me no. I don't get it and I certainly don't understand why he would want me to feed my child something he's allergic to. I'm no allergist but I do know that allergies can wreak havoc with the brain and it's development. He said that going gfcf can cause more allergies to come up, etc. It still doesn't make sense to me. Yes, more allergies can come up but that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to feed him what he's already allergic to and our ped certainly doesn't want us feeding it to him (as a matter of fact, our ped wants us to see an allergist and get tested for celiac just to be sure). Someone please help me understand why he thinks I should do this? Our next appointment isn't for a couple of weeks so and I'm kind of irritated about the whole thing. It's not so much that I don't trust him, I just don't understand him. Someone please explain this to me if you can. Thanks, Cheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 In a message dated 2/19/2007 8:18:58 AM Central Standard Time, sfglover@... writes: <<Could it be the lactoferrin spray (derived from milk) used on some beef?>> I didn't know they were using this on some beef. Is there any way to tell whether the beef you buy has it or not? My son was never able to tolerate the Whole Foods beef. I always thought it was something they were feeding the cows. He used to have trouble with some regular, non-organic beef as well so we used to always eat 's brand. I think it tastes better. He's been able to tolerate regular, non-organic beef for about a year now though. Occasionally, he'll have off days though that could be related to something different on the meat he eats. Would be nice if there was a way to check for this. Gaylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Could it be the lactoferrin spray (derived from milk) used on some beef? Caroline > From: Doris and Steve <sjsmith@...> > Reply-< > > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:00:13 -0500 > < > > Subject: re: GFCF or bust? > > Perhaps it's something > used on the beef? > antibiotics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I don't know how one could tell without doing a lot of sleuthing... all the way back to the meat processing plant. Supposedly, the amount of lactoferrin in the spray is not more than would " naturally " be found in beef (whatever that means). I agree that it would be nice to know what has been put onto and into the foods we eat. Caroline > From: <Googahly@...> > Reply-< > > Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:58:50 -0500 (EST) > < > > Subject: Re: re: GFCF or bust? > > I didn't know they were using this on some beef. Is there any way to tell > whether the beef you buy has it or not? My son was never able to tolerate the > Whole Foods beef. I always thought it was something they were feeding the > cows. He used to have trouble with some regular, non-organic beef as well so > we > used to always eat 's brand. I think it tastes better. He's been able > to > tolerate regular, non-organic beef for about a year now though. > Occasionally, he'll have off days though that could be related to something > different on > the meat he eats. Would be nice if there was a way to check for this. > Gaylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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