This may be a bit long so I'll apologise now.
DS1(4yrs)has pretty bad excema and has had since he was a baby. In February he had his tonsils out and for a week after the op he didn't eat anything at all. His excema totally cleared, within a couple of days of his eating again the excema came back with a vengeance. We took him to the doctors and he was sent for blood tests, the results are back and he is allergic to wheat, milk, eggs and very mildly allergic to peanuts. The doctor said we then had to eliminate each food from his diet one at a time to see which one is effecting his excema, so we eliminated eggs (in the blood tests this got the strongest result) but his excema didn't improve at all. We were going to start with wheat today but after doing a bit of research I've found that 2 of the proteins in eggs are also in wheat which means that if he is allergic to one of these proteins then it doesn't matter if we eliminate wheat because he will still be getting the protein from the eggs.
We have decided that the best thing to do is to eliminate all of them for a couple of weeks and then (if his excema does clear up) reintroduce them one by one.
I'm a bit stuck as to what to put in his luchbox though so any advice would be greatly apprecciated.
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Wheat, Milk and Egg Free Diets, Advice needed please......
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MetalMummy · 16/04/2007 22:50
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