Can someone please explain this??

[Guest guest]

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