Seeking Advice!

[Anonymous]

Background: Dylan is 6 weeks old and gaining well. He was born a month early. Signs of reflux started around 2 weeks. My diet, before the reflux, contained a lot of dairy, oats, soy, and wheat so it could be anything…

Starting on Sept. 30, 2010 my Elimination Diet consists of:
Rice (cereal, milk, pasta), Summer squash, Zucchini, Turkey (ground and tenderloins – white meat), potatoes (sweet and regular), Pears (whole, canned, juice), Unrefined sugar, Sea salt, Olive oil, Fenugreek capsules, mother’s Milk tea, Calcium Supplement, Prenatal Vitamin, Colace

Dylan’s original symptoms: sandpaper like rash on face, diaper rash, lots of gas, grunting and straining to relive gas or have a bowel movement, arching back, fussiness, crying, spitting up, and the sense that his insides are burning. He can not be set down on any incline w/o grunting, screaming, and writhing in pain.Only sleeps comfortable on someone’s chest, Congestion, Hoarse voice, Eats and sleeps in small doses. Stools have been loose, mucusy, and not seedy but for the most part yellow, sometimes borderline green. Gets very bothered when he can’t get a burp out.

Dylan is taking 7.5mg Prevacid Solutab diluted in water once a day.

Week 1 report: Pros: Facial rash starting to clear, diaper rash getting better, seems more alert and has a better disposition, seems like his reflux doesn’t burn as much, can lay on his back to play more often. Cons: Seems to sleeping even less comfortably than before. He used to nap in his nap nanny fairly well but cries out in pain in it now. This doesn’t make sense since his pain seems to be more tolerable than before when he is alert.Still nursing on demand doing small, frequent feeds – would like to get these stretched out further and/or on a schedule, Poop is still loose but a bit less mucusy. Some seediness is appearing in his poop. Still very fussy when he has gas or is trying to have a bowel movement.

Questions: Should I keep going on my diet the way it is for another week or change it up? If it was working would I have seen more of a response by now or are the improvements he’s made typical for only week in? also, we have an aapt. with a pedi GI tomorrow…any adivce on what I should try to get out that appt?

Sorry for the lack of personality here, I am typing with one hand and trying to hold baby!

[Anonymous]

Update – I suspect Dylan is sensitive to either rice or sweet potatoes. I ate both this morning and the rash on his face is back. Also, he’s very gassy and had runny stools in his last diaper. I’m going to eliminate sweet potatoes for 48 hours and if that doesn’t work I’ll try the rice. I think it’s the SP b/c I haven’t had one in a couple days and his rash was getting better but I was eating rice. Also, before I knew he had a food sensitivity I was “craving” and eating a ton of SPs and that is usually a sign that there is an intolerance present.

Does anyone know…If he is sensitive to sweet potatoes does that carry over to white potatoes too? Should I eliminate both?
ccushing172010-10-06 16:04:49

[hellbennt]

I’ll email Erin, our expert on TED, lol!

in the meantime, here are some of ‘her’ links, and other links, too:

Erin’s sticky: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12948&PID=105126#105126

More erin; https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13175&PID=106395#106395

Erin post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13576

Great anne post: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9242

Exposure to foods & blood testing: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12993

Sheri’s allergy/intolerance explanation: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10223&PID=87638#87638

Another Sheri explanation- intolerance/allergy post:

https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11579&PID=97442#97442

Accuracy of allergy testing & great post by sherri explaining IgE and IgG (intolerance/allergies) https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10815

(sue again, replying to gina- breastfeeding info to (TED)https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11324&PN=1

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