Just after some advice really.
My DD (12) has recently been diagnosed with a condition called cyclic vomiting syndrome. This is because she is apparently intolerant (not allergic) to amines, which are in everything. She has had to radically change her diet due to this, which is complicated further by the fact that she is away at boarding school (due to DHs job and frequent overseas moves). She can no longer have a lot of the staple foods that school serve and has to have a special meal prepared for her. Luckily if they get it wrong she is now able to tell when she is going to have an episode and as soon as she starts to feel unwell takes some very strong anti emetics so that we don't have hours of vomiting for weeks on end.
Since changing her diet she has thrived, no longer tired constantly, gaining weight, happy in herself and I have my wonderful little girl back (although I realise not for long as she is about to become a teenager)
However, in the boarding house they get tuck on a Wednesday night. She cannot have any of it so the staff and I have been baking and buying special items that are only for her. This is causing some resentment amongst the other girls and they are starting to tease and bully her about her being "special". One particularly nasty girl said "you make yourself ill so that you get attention and different food, you enjoy it". DD was very upset by this, the house staff stamped down on it hard, but she is still upset as she said "who would want to spend 6 weeks off school in and out of hospital, on morphine drips and throwing up"
Has anyone else experienced similar with their DCs?
Do you have any stock one liners I can give DD to combat the comments from other girls?
DD can see the positive steps the diet has made and is very happy now to have control back over her illness but I wonder if she will still feel like this 6 months a year down the line if the questions from others about it continue. Teenagers don't like being different.
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pimmsgalore · 17/03/2013 13:45
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