fruit and veg intolerance

[kimmyg]

Hello, i'm new here. my 4 yr old son has just been tested for intolerances and has shown up for pretty much every fruit and vegetable you can think of plus a few other items including cows milk and some E numbers. i'm worried about him getting enough vitamins and nutrients if i can't give him fruit and veg. does any one have any ideas??

how was he tested?

Shouldn't the health professionals who tested him be giving you advice? If not, ask your GP who can advise you. I think you need a qualified nutritionalist TBH.

I am interested to know what form of test your son had too?
The test you can have done in health food shops/shopping centres really cannot be trusted. The only reliable source of detecting allergies are the skinprick test and the Ige RAST blood test. The specialist who performed the test should have given you advice or referred you to a dietician/nutritionist to help you plan your sons diet.

it was a vega(??)test done by a nutritionist / homeopath at the natural health consultancy in camberley. it actually confirmed what i already suspected. i already knew he reacted to apples and sodium nitrite and had been looking into salicylate sensitivity. he had also been getting loads of ear infections. i am going to take him to see a different doctor next week, the last one i saw hadn't even heard of salicylate sensitivity. hopefully i can get him tested further.

There is no scientific evidence at all that vega testing works. As your gp for a referal for proper allergy testing.
But anyone who uses a vega machine is just a quack, these machines are banned in other countries.

ear infections at that age are very common. The only thing that might help reduce those is excluding milk. Don't do that for more than 2 weeks without advice from a dietician.

If you can get to Camberley you can get to a properly trained allergist, although that may mean London for an NHS referral. Read the Surrey Allergy Clinic guide to testing here www.allergy-clinic.co.uk/food_allergy_testing.htm

I went for one of those once and they told me I was allergic to tomato, all citrus fruit and gluten. I knew I wasn't allergic to any of those things at all, and took no notice. She just seemed to pull them out of the air. And then tried to sell me supplements so that I wouldn't be malnourished......

its a very dangerous practice to remove such a wide food group from a childs diet , without proper proven medical reason, and proper dietary support.

kimmy, could he be reacting to fructose (yes, it is possible!)
if so, then some veg is lower in fructose than others.

but I agree with the others, please do get a second opinion.

what is vega testing, can anyone enlighten me? is it magnetic resonance testing? if so, a pile of shite imo.

Agree completely with previous posts. Fruit and veg are so important in the diet and I wouldn't rule them out without proper allergy testing. We do use alternative medicine and it's great used in addition to conventional medicine but for allergy testing, it just is not enough. We had a bad experience with a kineseologist before we had DD diagnosed - told us to use goat's milk instead of cow's milk and DD had a reaction - huge hives all over her chest where the milk spilt. It really annoys me that health food stores advertise 'allergy testing' when it is no such thing.

thanks for all your advice. i have only cut out a few things that i know he reacts to (apples, dried fruit, processed meat - i have seen the reaction to these). not sure how well i'm going to get on with a second opinion. i'm sure my GP thinks i'm making it all up.

i'm just going to see how his behaviour is and go with that. i'm not keen on removing so much from his diet.

How does he react?

it's mainly behavioural - he becomes extremely bouncy, unable to sit still and listen to what he's told he's not aggressive luckily just silly.

on top of that he has had almost constant ear infections since i moved back from germany last summer and has had occasions where he's had what i can only describe as 'water' leaking from his bottom. he also complains of tummy ache alot (right on his belly button)

How was your DS tested? Unless it was a blood test or skin prick, I wouldn't put any faith in the results. Fruit and veg are essential in everybody's diets and I wouldn't cut them out without proper advice from a nutritionist.

Both my children react to citrus fruits(eczema)and my Ds reacted badly to tomatoes when he was younger. His eczema was red raw around his mouth and he had a patch on his back. I cut those foods out and about every 6 months tried him on them again one at a time to check each thing...he can eat tomatoes now, but not citrus fruits/juice. They also react to yoghurt, so don't have those.

I have a 4 year old who is fructose intolerant, diagnosed at the Royal Free. He had previously been suspected lactose and gluten intolerant but can no tolerate these and is on a fructose free diet.

It's hard but he's much better. We were unable to toilet train him until he was almost 4 and suffered alot with bloating and night sweats.

I would try and get your Dr to refer you to paediatric gastro at the RF.

salicylate allergy is very very difficult i agree but does not rule out all fruit and veg, by any means

Hi, is there a specific test that anyone would recommend for fructose intolerance? Some blood tests on ds last year showed up a "possible mild fructose intolerance" but I strongly suspect he does have some form of this, he also has M.E, and I would like to finally get a firm answer on it.
I don't mind paying for a good test and would be really grateful for any advice.

Thanks

oh, fairy wave, its stories like that which make me so mad!

its were quacks risk lives, last year a man in ireland died from his peanut allergy after a quack cure.

so these quacks are dangerous people.

hi parachutes. there is a test for fructose. info on allergy uk website

Allergy to apples and other tree fruits can be related to birch pollen allergy. Just another possibility to consider.

Thank you scamparoox2!