Guest guest Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 I think that technically, scientifically the jury is still out on gluten in breast milk issue. However, my personal experience is that YES it is. At 3 months old my collicky screaming little girl began to have blood in her stools and lost weight like crazy. I was exclusively breastfeeding at the time. My pediatrician had me go on an emimination type diet to see if there was something I was eating that was causing the problem. For a couple of days I only ate rice and then added things in every couple of days. As soon as I added wheat back the bleeding began again. From there on out she consistently would bleed if I ate anything with wheat. We thought it must be a wheat allergy. We didn't zero in on celiac until after she was a year old and still not growing the way she should. Because we thought it was wheat we had not eliminated barley or rye from her diet either. She was getting just enough of those things to cause damage, but not enough to cause the bleeding that she had when she was younger. We finally got a biopsy and confimed celiac, removed the offending items and she is doing GREAT!. Our pediatric gastro told me that the medical profession was undecided as to if gluten is passed through breastmilk, but that he felt in my duaghter's case the evidence was so strong that he would strongly encourage me to follow- a gluten free diet if I have any more children and choose to breastfeed them. I asked about the cow thing and got the same answer, something about the 2 stomachs, etc...I don't know? HTH Jonyce > If gluten is passed in breast milk, wouldn't it make sense that we could not drink cow's millk from animals that are fed grain or were pastured on certain grasses? > Just a thought! > > Re: House episode > > > > I'm not sure whether gluten can be expressed in breast milk or not, > (seems weird to me if it is), but they explained his death by saying > that the baby died because they had given him medication that > contained wheat gluten. That shouldn't have caused instantaneous > villi flattening though, so maybe they were hinting previously with > the breast pump thing. > > Celiac disease Gluten-free foods > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 I think that technically, scientifically the jury is still out on gluten in breast milk issue. However, my personal experience is that YES it is. At 3 months old my collicky screaming little girl began to have blood in her stools and lost weight like crazy. I was exclusively breastfeeding at the time. My pediatrician had me go on an emimination type diet to see if there was something I was eating that was causing the problem. For a couple of days I only ate rice and then added things in every couple of days. As soon as I added wheat back the bleeding began again. From there on out she consistently would bleed if I ate anything with wheat. We thought it must be a wheat allergy. We didn't zero in on celiac until after she was a year old and still not growing the way she should. Because we thought it was wheat we had not eliminated barley or rye from her diet either. She was getting just enough of those things to cause damage, but not enough to cause the bleeding that she had when she was younger. We finally got a biopsy and confimed celiac, removed the offending items and she is doing GREAT!. Our pediatric gastro told me that the medical profession was undecided as to if gluten is passed through breastmilk, but that he felt in my duaghter's case the evidence was so strong that he would strongly encourage me to follow- a gluten free diet if I have any more children and choose to breastfeed them. I asked about the cow thing and got the same answer, something about the 2 stomachs, etc...I don't know? HTH Jonyce > If gluten is passed in breast milk, wouldn't it make sense that we could not drink cow's millk from animals that are fed grain or were pastured on certain grasses? > Just a thought! > > Re: House episode > > > > I'm not sure whether gluten can be expressed in breast milk or not, > (seems weird to me if it is), but they explained his death by saying > that the baby died because they had given him medication that > contained wheat gluten. That shouldn't have caused instantaneous > villi flattening though, so maybe they were hinting previously with > the breast pump thing. > > Celiac disease Gluten-free foods > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 I think that technically, scientifically the jury is still out on gluten in breast milk issue. However, my personal experience is that YES it is. At 3 months old my collicky screaming little girl began to have blood in her stools and lost weight like crazy. I was exclusively breastfeeding at the time. My pediatrician had me go on an emimination type diet to see if there was something I was eating that was causing the problem. For a couple of days I only ate rice and then added things in every couple of days. As soon as I added wheat back the bleeding began again. From there on out she consistently would bleed if I ate anything with wheat. We thought it must be a wheat allergy. We didn't zero in on celiac until after she was a year old and still not growing the way she should. Because we thought it was wheat we had not eliminated barley or rye from her diet either. She was getting just enough of those things to cause damage, but not enough to cause the bleeding that she had when she was younger. We finally got a biopsy and confimed celiac, removed the offending items and she is doing GREAT!. Our pediatric gastro told me that the medical profession was undecided as to if gluten is passed through breastmilk, but that he felt in my duaghter's case the evidence was so strong that he would strongly encourage me to follow- a gluten free diet if I have any more children and choose to breastfeed them. I asked about the cow thing and got the same answer, something about the 2 stomachs, etc...I don't know? HTH Jonyce > If gluten is passed in breast milk, wouldn't it make sense that we could not drink cow's millk from animals that are fed grain or were pastured on certain grasses? > Just a thought! > > Re: House episode > > > > I'm not sure whether gluten can be expressed in breast milk or not, > (seems weird to me if it is), but they explained his death by saying > that the baby died because they had given him medication that > contained wheat gluten. That shouldn't have caused instantaneous > villi flattening though, so maybe they were hinting previously with > the breast pump thing. > > Celiac disease Gluten-free foods > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Just wanted to let everyone know that this season of House will be replayed all summer. So for all of you out there that did not have the chance to see the episode about Celiac Disease, it will be re- aired probably near the end of the summer. The episode was titled " FOREVER. " I will be on the look out for when it is on. I will let you guys know when it gets close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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