Vega testing on children?

[Straysocks]

Has anyone used this method of identifying allergy triggers on children? Considering this to identify allergy related gastric issues, extremely hard to pin down triggers by diet diary/elimination. Advice and experience would be much appreciated.

no. avoid. not a working method of testing for anything. highly quack.
will give a long list of foods to avoid, and some will hit the food problem if there is any. however may be too restrictive for a growing child to follow in a diet.

avoid avoid avoid.

Have googled further and suspect you're right, thanks for responding. If anyone has advice about managing allergy related gastric issues, I'd be keen to hear it. Both children have asthma, eczema, nut allergy problems, which I can manage but the gastric related difficulties seem I surmountable when I can't clearly identify the triggers.

insurmountable

@Straysocks , my day is/was ana to several things and non IgE to several others. He's 'grown out' out his ana milk allergy but still has gut issues with it. He also has gut issues with wheat.

You're not going to like this, but food diarying was the only thing that identified all his allergies for us. It took about 18 months (16 months of food diaries!) to get the last culprit because of delayed reactions. When we finally identified the last one, his height jumped from about 7th centile to now 7Oth centile. He's not coeliac, and I still give him small amounts of wheat occasionally (usually weekends) as I don't want the allergy to get worse, but I think it's allowed his gut to heal a bit and he's growing better now.

Can you go back to a really simple diet (porridge / meat / limited veg) and slowly expand?

My DS not my day

Ps. DS had bad eczema until I cut out offending foods and then everyone commented how he 'didn't look like an allergy child' because his skin was so clear. Our list included (both ana and non )... peanuts, treenuts, dairy, soy, corn, wheat & related (barley, malt etc)... all legumes, all gourds... the last 3 were all gut/skin issues; obviously need to consider the whole picture before removing foods that don't have severe reactions.

Good luck!