I want to give him a few weeks on all fruit first.
Yep, that sounds like a good plan. This will be more telling. Food challenge protocol usually involves giving large quantities/doses of the food you are testing for at least 7 days, so you can be sure if they are "ok" with the food. Hold everything else constant though so you don't second guess youselves if there is a reaction.
Well since he is teething, it makes it harder to pinpoint the screaming fit reason. Did he have a hard sore tummy too?
It might be worth following a food challenge protocol for wheat too as I recall it is 1-2 slices of toast a day for 7 days.
Suddenly I feel just as lost as I did way back when he was small and we were trying to sort out reflux, intolerances, sore tummy etc. We've dealt with the reflux, milk and gluten and I thought we were 'winning' with the fruit and now I feel like we're back to the beginning because if I have interpreted one wrong, then am I wrong about them all?
I have been through this with Kai, the thing is, you don't know if he is growing less sensitive as they can out grow these things with time, the doses that they need to eat might just be higher now. Again this is why it is worth persisting/repeating with a drawn out food challenge.
Kai is tolerating high salicylates now and it makes me feel sick to think that I was eating low sals for all those months for no reason. But then I think well I went through the challenges, I interpreted the results as best as I could, and I made the decisions at the time based on the information I had. I am pretty sure that he was "that" sensitive, but maybe he became less sensitive alot earlier than I gave him credit for, who knows?
Again that's why we need to repeat and challenge when we get the chance.
If your DH does a blind trial of wheat it might not mean anything. I don't know how fructose works, but certainly for wheat and dairy it can take a while to build up before they react. And now I will share a little bit of our last month: - we had sickness, immunisations and a failed med wean all at the same time, fevers and vomiting. it was horrid, Kai serisously did not smile of r week and lost weight. He was so listless for about 5 days and only would eat a few teaspoons of food here and there. It took him so long to get stable on the meds, he was refluxing all day long and have long NW's night after night. And stupidly we started letting Kai eat crusts of our toast each day.
On about day 5, he broke out in really bad red patches on his legs and arms and also cheeks. We immediately stopped the crusts, and two days later his body was back to normal. Wierd. So we need to do a wheat challenge to get to the bottom of it! Just when he's a bit more stable
Great about the books, I hope you will LOVE then as much as I do
Quite similar to nourishing traditions philosophy but modern recipes, with ingredients that are possible for us to find. And nice to read the same nutritional information from another author.
Oh and when I ever go back to work
: -I am an environmental scientist - working with remote sensing and geographical information systems.