Gluten Challenge

[Guest guest]

Hi

DH and I are doing a gluten challenge with DD. Yesterday was the second time

we gave her gluten. Today her BM floated. Last time after the gluten, her

BMs

floated for over a week. I have a hunch she may be celiac; is there any way

of testing her without putting her back on a load of gluten?

I've not noticed any behavioral changes, and she's still sleeping well most of

the time. No changes there. Eye contact still good. Will give her more

gluten

when the floating BMs stop next time.

Margaret

[Guest guest]

Hi

My daughter, who was born a healthy 7lbs 3ozs and 19.5 " long, dropped from

the 50th %ile to the 5th between 4 and 6 months old. (About the time we were

introducing the wheat and barley baby cereals). After crawling along at that

for three years, we removed gluten from her diet last November. By February,

she had grown about 3 inches. Her weight has doubled in two years! If it

were up to me, I'd keep her 100% gluten free, but DH wants to challenge the

diet. I'm going along with it because it seems to be only way to convince him

that she may be celiac. At least now her BMs have started floating again -

for the

second time immediately following gluten ingestion - he's starting to consider

it as an idea but I have NO idea how we'll ever confirm this.

Margaret

[Guest guest]

Thank you, this has certainly helped me. My son started growing for the

first time in two years- has grown nearly 3 inches since the end of March.

I suspected celiac, but never found anything that stated this as an indicator.

Lolita

>We did not do the testing formally but-a

>growth spurt following the introduction of a gf diet is a indicator of

>celiac-as is loose bowels following gluten ingestion