The Burning Question . . .
How can we tell whether Baby E can tolerate gluten or not if she refuses to eat it?
She's gagging and spitting out the barley today. It makes no difference whether it's in cooked grain form or blended up and fried into pancakes. She's eating other foods fine--just refusing the barley.
Baby E seemed to enjoy the barley last night. Now she'll have nothing to do with it.
She's gagging and spitting out the barley today. It makes no difference whether it's in cooked grain form or blended up and fried into pancakes. She's eating other foods fine--just refusing the barley.
Baby E seemed to enjoy the barley last night. Now she'll have nothing to do with it.
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Posted by purple_kangaroo at 3:18 PM[Permanent link]
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That girl is just too smart, that's what it is. She knows better than to eat anything that causes her discomfort. We should all be so smart.
Will she eat other forms of gluten? I seem to recall that you're a waffle maker extraordinaire.
What PS said. That Baby E won't eat anything twice that makes her tummy unhappy.
Thanks, Phantom and Liz.
Phantom, I keep thinking about waffles . . . she loves them. But I don't know how to make them without eggs, oil, baking powder or several other foods we haven't yet reintroduced.
Liz, the concern at this point is that it's possible she may be blaming the new food for her cold. She's got really advanced reasoning powers, but not advanced enough for us to explain the common cold to her.
Then maybe it makes sense to wait until after her cold is over to re-introduce barley and other new foods.
Well, I didn't know she was going to come down with a cold that night the afternoon I introduced barley. :)
However, the problem with waiting to reintroduce gluten is that every day off gluten raises her chances of getting a false negative on the celiac screening if she did actually happen to have celiac. So if we want to test her, it was essential to get her back on gluten as soon as possible.
Actually, we shouldn't have taken her off gluten at all before doing the test. But I wasn't really expecting her to have as dramatic an improvement as she did on the elimination diet.
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