Toddler with yeast???? Please help

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Hello,

I have a daughter that we adopted from Ethiopia when she was 8 months old.

She just turned 2. We are just beginning to find out that most of her problems

may actually be physical in origin, not attachment/adoption related. She is

absolutely MISERABLE, and I have had her to 7 (Yes, 7) conventional medical

doctors that tell me there is nothing wrong with her, even in the face of all of

her symptoms. Here they are:

1. Severely bloated abdomen, worse after eating.

2. Loose stools (always), with a lot of undigested food in it

3. Unexplained weight gain for the amount of food she is eating

4. Excessive hunger (but we don't let her overeat at all, and in fact

she eats NO sugar/milk at all due to the fact that she gains so quickly.

5. Fatigue-Think of the LEAST active 2 year old you have ever met, and that

is her on a good day-most days she doesn't move around much at all unless

prompted.

6. IRRITABILITY-think of the most irritable baby you have known while

teething/sick, and that is her MOST of the time.

7. Elevated Liver Enzymes (blood test)-they told me not to worry and come

back in 3 months and see if it was worse

8. H. Pylori overgrowth for which she was put on a 2 week course of 2

different antibiotics and which made all of her symptoms worse.

9. She was on antibiotics 3 times in her first 4 months of life (while in

Ethiopia)

I have been to attachment (adoption) therapists, and even they, who are ALL

about attachment do not really think her behavioral problems have anything to do

with attachment. She is behaving like a child who is sick, but no one will

listen to me. If she was my biological child, I would never have questioned

that there is something physically wrong with her, but because she was adopted,

everyone has me feeling like I am a terrible mother because she is NOT happy.

She really isn't. She isn't calm, content, happy, active. None of the things a

2 yr. old should be. I have 3 biological children, and even on their worst

days, they acted nothing like this.

I'm so scared. My family is falling apart because everyone blames me and is

angry at me because I am not able to handle the constant pressure of this

miserable child anymore. I can't do ANYTHING anymore, even laundry. She wants

to be held, fed, played with, or she is eating or asking for something. I

really can't do this anymore. We have not done anything together as a family in

almost a year because her problems literally take over the whole day. We can't

do anything. I send my husband out with the other kids to take them to do

something fun because we can't do anything anymore.

If anyone has any advice or suggestions for me, please let me know.

I will be eternally grateful for any help.