Re: Off Topic --HELP for 15 month old with digestive problems?

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In a message dated 8/20/01 11:18:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

michealmoney@... writes:

> The

> problem is my 15 month old daughter. I stopped breast feeding at 12

> months and she is still not having " normal " bowel movements. Most

> are very loose bordering on watery.

I also have an almost 15 month old daughter too. We're having the same

problems with her bowels. We just treated her for a yeast infection with

Nystatin. Her bowels are almost normal and she's only going twice a day now.

I honestly think yeast plays a big role with our kids. She is sleeping good

again and her horrible gas is gone. She also has what I believe are

malabsorption issues. She only weighs 17 lbs. and has just finally doubled

her birth weight (she was born a healthy 8 lbs. 1 oz.). Even though she has

the abnormal bowels, she's developing perfectly. Have you tried a rotation

diet? Try not to give her too much refined sugar either. My daughter's diet

is very bland and she has a GF/CF pancake w/ pear butter, eggs, most meats,

some baby food, fruit, potatoes, and occasionally some organic wheat products

but no dairy. I haven't found a milk substitute that she can tolerate yet so

I make sure she gets extra calcium. We'll try the new Dari-free as soon as we

can get some. Are you giving her probiotics? I just started Pro-EFA, she gets

Cod Liver Oil, and extra Zinc. I hope you can figure out what she's reacting

to.

Jo (South Carolina)

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> I was told to put her on an allergy elemination diet for two

weeks.

> This means no soy, wheat, dairy, eggs, nuts, tomato, or citrus.

My now 3 year old had this, It was the worst experience! I also put

him on an allergy free diet and still had the constant runs. What I

found was that the typical allergy free diet did not include his

allergy, which, for my son, is corn.

Your child may be allergic to corn, or some other thing that is not

on the elimination diet. Other items I was told later to take ds off

of were apples, bananas, oatmeal, and all juice. My son also gets

the runs from potatoes, which is new in the past 8 months. As an

aside we think he has sucrase isomaltase deficiency, which is a

reduced ability to digest all starches and sucrose (vegtable) based

sugars (cane, corn, beet, potato).

I know the extensive eliminations can be overwhelming. At the same

time, getting rid of 10 diaper changes a day and the pain she suffers

from them is worth the very restricted diet until you find the

culprit. Please feel free to email me privately (mplocki1@...)

with questions. Good luck.