Allergies

M.,
Look up NAET.It's an allergy treatment. Yes, children can recieve it. It's all natural.I go to Kaern Marshall in Fishers. Let me know if you're interested and need help fining her number.
Blessings,
S.

I understand how your feeling......My daughter has eczema and asthma......her allergy tests revealed that she is allergic to: Eggs, Soy (soybeans), Peanuts, Cats, Dogs, and Mold.

Your going to have to read a lot of food lables....and stores like Trader Joe's will come in handy, because they carry whole foods and foods that are less processed.

Is she allergic to wheat or gluten? There's a big difference but most docs and parents tend to casually interchange the two terms. It's important to be sure. Wheat free isn't as bad as it might seem. Gluten free is very hard but doable. I have several friends with children who are gluten free or wheat free. It's much easier if you live close to a store like Whole Foods. They have a big selection of gluten free stuff (whcih is also wheat free by defination so anything label gluten free is OK for her). They also have a selection of gluten-free cookbooks and flyers/brochures. There's a list of their gluten-free products on their 'special diets' section of their website, too. There are tons of excellent websites regardign wheatfree/glutenfree diets, too.

Hi M.,

My daughter has allergy to dairy. Not the same but well, just as tough for you have to be very careful with her diet.
Despite my plead to people like my MIL, for instance that she has siffered greatly with her health, she continues to give her chocolate behind my back and God only knows what else when I'm not looking.
Everytime she sees her at her home she comes home and cries like crazy at night, has had diahrrea etc so please educate your family and friends so they don't ruin your efforts to get her on a good track to being healthy and happy.

You can do a search for wheat free foods.
There are a lot of foods that have wheat in them.

My Dr told me not to read labels, ask your Dr if you need to. He said the amount of dairy in foods wasn't enough to harm her but I was to avoid the obvious, yogurt, milk, cheese etc.

She will be fine. I had a friend who found she had a wheat allergy as an adult and as soon as she got rid of it she was able to conceive and rop a ton of weight so you're fortunate to have found this allergy so early on ;)
The Dr also said a lot of kids outgrow allergies by age of 4... So she may be one of those lucky ones too ;)

I'm assuming you are breastfeeding your daughter because otherwise, she wouldn't have had any wheat yet, yes?
So, my cousin's son wasn't allergic to wheat, but just about EVERYTHING else. She had to change her whole diet for the year she nursed him, cutting out milk, eggs, nuts, you name it. If it wasn't rice, corn, or chicken, she probably didn't eat it. The biggest hassle was that everything had to be made from scratch for the most part because when she checked labels of prepared foods, everything had milk in it (and most will have wheat when you look.
There are some great books on gluten-free diets. I wish I could be more help. I do wonder how bad the eczema is - my son had it and we were never told to see an allergist. We we just told to bathe him no more than once a week unless got dirty somehow and not to use lotions. It acted up again this winter when it was cold and dry, but now we can use lotion on him.

Good Luck!

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