The littlest one had his follow up with the kids GI doctor yesterday. We travel over 2 hours each way to see the kids team of specialists, worth it, but with gas prices the way they are right now its killing our budget!
But we got great news, the Top Allergen Elimination diet we are currently following with the littlest one is working! He has gained 1 pound and grew 1 inch in height! Amazing, seeing as this kid hasn't grown or gained anything since right after he turned 2, almost a year ago. He will be 3 in December.
So we will keep him at his current level of restriction for another week or two, then I'm supposed to start making his gluten free bread with eggs, like the recipe calls for, though I've been replacing the eggs with various egg replacer methods. He's supposed to eat the bread containing eggs for one week and then if he has no reactions, I'm to start to feed him scrambled eggs, one of his favs, for another week. If still no reactions we move onto the biggie, in my book at least, Wheat!!!!! If he passes the wheat reintroduction that will be huge for my cooking and baking!
After wheat, the doctor left it up to me as to what foods in what order I reintroduce next. But I'm to leave the reintroduction of dairy, soy, and corn for last. Since we know for sure that those foods cause him issues 100%. I worry about the reintro of those, just because I know it will be very, very rough, but the GI insists that this be done as scientifically as possible. So that means I have to take my personal feelings about how food affects my child out of the equation, which as a mom is super tough to do! So I will slap on my scientist lab coat and pretend that none of this bothers me, just to "prove" what I already know. Oh the life of a mom of a food intolerant kid!
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