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April 10, 2007 at 12:50 pm #29996

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i think trace has a wheat intolerance. anytime he has something with wheat, his cheeks get red and dry and scaly looking. he also sleeps terrible.

what the heck am i supposed to feed this kid? 🙁

i know very little about cooking, and basically nothing about healthy cooking. i live on sweets and junk, no joke. the only things i have been giving trace now are fruit and veggie purees, but he is loosing interest.

i think i need to go to whole foods and browse the ailes. this is just so overwhelming to me.

April 10, 2007 at 1:11 pm #29997

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Time of Introduction	Grains and Cereals	Vegetables	Fruits	Meats and alternates	Milk and Dairy	Nuts, Seeds, other
Six to nine months	Rice Millet	All cooked Yam Sweet potato Squash (all types) Carrot Beets Broccoli Potato Green beans Cabbage	All cooked Pear Peach Banana Apricot Nectarine Blueberry	Lamb Turkey	Breast milk If absolutely necessary, casein hydrolysate formula.	None
Nine to twelve months	Barley Rye Oats	Asparagus Avocado Cauliflower Brussel sprouts	Plum Prune Pineapple Grape Apple (cooked) Cranberry Raisins	Chicken Veal Beaf	Breast milk or casein hydrolysate formula	None except vegetable oils in formula
Twelve to twenty-four months	Corn Wheat Other grains	Green pea Spinach Tomato Celery Cucumber Lettuce Onion Garlic Lima beans Broad beans Other legumes including soy Any raw vegetable	Citrus fruits: orange grapefruit lemon lime Berries: Strawberry Raspberry Other Melons Mango Fig Date Cherry Any raw fruits	Ham Pork Fish Egg	Yogurt (plain) Homogenized milk White cheese Cottage cheese	Seed oils: Canola Safflower Sunflower
After two years	All	All	All	Shellfish	All others including ice cream	Peanut Nuts Chocolate Seeds

The foods I give to Reidun are from this table. I hope this helps!

April 10, 2007 at 1:55 pm #30000

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dont barley and oats contain wheat and gluten? im so confused.

April 10, 2007 at 2:39 pm #30010

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I think they contain gluten, but not wheat (I am no expert, but at one point I tried no wheat, and then no gluten with Brianna to see if that would help her.) I thought you had been giving Trace oatmeal at one point in time…did he do OK with that?

April 10, 2007 at 4:23 pm #30028

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I know exactly how you feel. I hate cooking (but love baking), and I’m not at all creative in the kitchen) I’ve been dealing with Kaelyn’s allergies for over a year, and yet I’m panicking with Alex. I just tried wheat with her and I think she may be reacting to it as well. Her chin and cheeks are scaly and red, and her bottom is bright red.

Barley does contain gluten, but not wheat. Kaelyn has done okay with barley products. Oats don’t contain wheat or gluten, but are often processed on the same equipment, so they may have cross contamination issues. We’ve been letting Kaelyn have oat products and they’ve been okay as well.

Alex doesn’t like anything with texture. So far, she’s only been interested in purees, but I’ve been trying to come up with ideas to try with her when she seems ready. Here’s what I’ve got, off the top of my head. They are all foods that we’ve used successfully with Kaelyn, and most of them are available in the natural foods area of a variety of local grocery stores. (None of the stores carry all of these. We do a lot of running to different stores. We don’t have a whole foods nearby.) We make all of the mixes with soy milk and eggs since they are okay with Kaelyn. When I try them with Alex, I may use rice milk and egg replacer. I’m not sure which ones we’ll do first, so these aren’t in any particular order. Some of them may contain soy. Since it’s not an issue for Kaelyn, I haven’t really paid attention to that. Sorry.

Here goes:

Puffins cereal, Gorilla Munch Cereal, Kix, Dora the Explorer cereal, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, puffed rice, rice cakes, Crispix, rice pasta (we like the kind by DeBoles – don’t overcook it, it dissolves into a paste if you do), Vann’s wheat free mini waffles, Glutino gluten free corn bread (found in the freezer section, it’s not great plain, but you can use it to make french toast, just let the bread soak for a while so it will soften up), Ian’s fish sticks, Ian’s chicken tender dinner (they sell chicken nuggets separately, but they turn out like little rocks), Ian’s alphatots, Ian’s sweet potato fries, Ore Ida fries, Gluten-Free pantry muffin and scone mix to make blueberry muffins (they also have a spice bread mix that makes nice muffins), Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Pancake mix

April 10, 2007 at 5:26 pm #30031

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Some babies with protein intolerances can not tolerate any grains. Reidun is one of them. One mother posted that either her nutrionist or allergist said not to give her protein intolerant child any grains for the first year–this is what we are doing with Reidun. We have our story in the TED Basics section if you are interested.

I would recommend Cybele Pascal’s book “The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook.” It is great! More than just great recipes for adults and kids, she also has a resource list and pantry shopping guide. I recommend it to anyone dealing with food allergies/intolerances.

April 11, 2007 at 12:28 am #30051

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It may just be a wheat intolerance rather than gluten intolerance, especially if he can tolerate his oatmeal….my older child (non-refluxer) couldnt do baby oatmeal from day one….and his issues were more on the GI tract than other things….

good luck–I personally hate food since my almost 9 monther cant have ANY food, and seems like will be on straight neocate forever….we tried a food this week after none for 2 months and it was pure hell…puke, exczema, diarrhea….ugh.

April 11, 2007 at 11:03 am #30067

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UGH i am so annoyed! i found some vans wheat gluten free waffles…and guess what they have soy!

i found some bobs red mill baking bread mix wheat gluten free….and it also has soy!

this is going to be quite a challenge

also i really dont know if his problem is wheat AND gluten. for now i am avoiding both, because i dont want all hell to break loose if i do try some gluten and he has a bad reaction…. aka-up every 30 minutes at night.

i am still looking for the bobs red mill pancake mix and hoping it wont have soy. does anyone know if i can make that without eggs? i want to avoid eggs for now too, because i have a feeling he will be sensitive to them as well.

im going to go to the library too and look for that whole foods allergy cookbook.

at this point, at 11 months, i was actually starting to think that he was maybe outgrowing these intolerances and i was preparing to try a milk based formula next month. but now i am finding that he has even more intoleranes than i originally thought-so this only means that he is prob no where near ready to try a milk based formula anytime soon considering that i am finding more and more intolerances as he is getting older right? i just thought his digestive system needed to mature and that he would grow out of this by about age one…thats what i was told anyway. but now i am realizing that this may continue for a while…..

April 11, 2007 at 11:52 am #30068

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For Taylor and all of her intolerance, I actually shop for her at Whole Foods and inaddition to that I use a grocery store online here’s the web site http://www.allergygrocer.com it list all of the ingredients and you can also type in what allergies you child has and it will give you a list of things that are age appropriate. I have ordered quite a few things from the store and Taylor does great with them.

April 11, 2007 at 12:57 pm #30076

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You can substitute applesauce for eggs in recipes, we do it all the time…I think its 1 TBSP per egg needed….most vans stuff have gluten free but not soy free….Namaste is a good brand for allergen free stuff.

Again though, since he didnt have issues with oat, going gluten free may not be necessary….but I understand being extra careful…

it is very hard to find soy/gluten/dairy free food, and its really more expensive to buy the convience food….when Noah was avoiding all those we basically fed him white meat (chicken or turkey) and fruits and veggies…and he was on that food just chopped up good, or shredded when he was 10-11 months old…

good luck

Has Trace had any allergy testing? Then you could know at least if its an intolerance or an allergy you are dealing with and then go from there….

April 11, 2007 at 2:54 pm #30093

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I just checked the pancake mix and it doesn’t contain soy.

It does call for egg, but I believe that you can use applesauce or vegetable oil to replace it.

Sorry about some of the other things containing soy. Since we don’t have to worry about it for Kaelyn, I forget that it’s a possibility.

The website that Sue mentioned is great. We just ordered some stuff from them the other day. Definitely check to see if your local stores have the stuff first though. I almost ordered some glutino blueberry bars from them for $7.19 and our local Kroger had them for $5.99 and no shipping charges!

April 11, 2007 at 5:20 pm #30115

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wheat, barley and rye all contain gluten. spelt, triticale and kamut also contain gluten. anything with barley malt or malt flavoring also will contain gluten—–rice krispies are not safe for people intolerant to gluten. there are some confused people out there that will tell you that spelt is gluten-free, but i think they are getting that idea from the fact that SOME people with a wheat allergy (NOT gluten intolerance) can tolerate it. oats do not contain gluten, but the risk of cross-contamination with gluten containing grains is too high. i buy some guaranteed gluten free oats for my girls, but they are pretty expensive. some people feel that McCain’s oats are safe, and my girls have eaten McCain’s instant oatmeal without getting any reaction.

if you are really serious about being gluten free, all ingredients must be read every time you shop because ingredients can change without notice, and what is safe this week might not be safe next week. also, toasters can be a source of contamination—-we keep a separate toaster for our girls. we also keep separate peanut butter, mayo, and jam containers for the girls and we label them “gluten free” with a marker to keep the other kids from contaminating them.

April 12, 2007 at 1:27 pm #30244

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chrisinte,

thanks for the info. im curious if you have any food suggetions for Trace. i feel like he has nothing left to eat now that i cut out his cheerios, his bread, his biscuits, his oatmeal, etc. he has been eating some fruits and veggies but am looking for other things to give him..

April 12, 2007 at 2:15 pm #30254

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If you have a natural food store by you there are Perky-O’s that are gluten free…they are just like cheerios, and also soy/dairy free.

There are rice noodles in the natural foods section of most grocery stores. and of course just rice is good.

Mostly we stick to meat, fruits and veggies with Noah (he’s celiac and on very limited amouts of dairy soy, as he just outgrew his issues with them at 2.5 years)

MrsRobens is a good brand to search out for allergen free bread mixes

Maybe Christine will have more ideas for you…we pretty much make whatever we used to eat and substitute gf dairy free and soy free stuff….or just eat the basics as I stated

We do LOVE to make the namaste pizza crust (dairy/soy/gluten free) and then have a cheese-less pizza with lots of veggies on it!

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