2 yr. old that has allergies to wheat, soybeans, oats, rice, eggs, nuts, bananas! I need advice and recipes!

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my 2 yr. old son has sever allergies to wheat, soybeans, oats, rice, eggs, nuts bananas. Is there anyone who is going through what i am with their child? I am trying to find recipes and advice about what might be causing him to have allergies so sever. He cant eat any cookies, crackers, bread products or even have any meats that are already breaded. eating out is almost imposible because he cant even have pasta or noodles.

That's a bit of a nightmare list of allergies!!

Can he have dairy?

My DS is allergic to dairy, eggs, soya, sesame, lentils and chickpeas.

It would be an absolute nightmare for us if he developed allergies to oats and rice.

I'm afraid I have no idea and neither do most specialists about what causes the allergies.

Hopefully I can help you with some ideas for food though.

Baked potato and beans or chips and beans sound like they might be your only hope from a children's menu when eating out.

Can he have corn? I think you can get corn based pastas. Polenta is also corn based and you can make cakes using polenta flour

Other ideas are fish cakes, cottage pie, moussaka, fish pie, stews.

what about quinoa? You could use that like couscous.

If you have a breadmaker you could try Doves gluten free bread recipe without the eggs, although you may need egg replacer. When you eat out give him a roast dinner - meat, potatoes and veg - if he'll eat it. At home he can have corn or buckwheat pasta (despite the name buckwheat isn't wheat). Buckwheat pancakes with redmoor (not Queenswood) flour are great but we do put egg in, not sure if egg replacer would work. You can get quinoa flakes for breakfast.

I only have to worry about nut allergy but I'm wheat intolerant and it does make life more difficult. You may find the allergycooks website helpful or the bbc recipes which are searchable.

Agree with roast dinner, any variation of meat and veg.

Is the rice you've been giving him prepared baby rice, rice pudding or plain, home cooked rice with nothing added?

he hasnt been on any form of rice since he was 10 months.

Have you been referred to a dietician? They might be able to help you with suggestions for food you can make for him.

DD has severe allergies to milk, egg, sesame, wheat and some nuts so I understand where you are coming from!

Corn will prob be your best bet as others have said. There are lots of 100% corn pastas and there are also 100% corn 'crackers' - Orgran does a good one that is like a big rice cake but only made from corn. I have also made potato bread from a recipe by Lola Workman (wheat and gluten free home cooking - available on Amazon) - the recipe has some rice flour in it but I am sure you could substitute something else. I use egg replacer in this recipe and it has always worked well. The author seems pretty open to questions/contact so she may have a suggestion. She also has a great chocolate mud cake in the same book which uses sweet potato and should be fine for you (with egg replacer instead of egg).

Eating out may well prove virtually impossible - we don't bother tbh, it is just too stressful. DD has had a couple of meals out but mostly we take food with us - maybe as she gets older that will change but it seems to work at the moment.

Good luck! It is possible, I think, if you naturally change your family's eating towards the meat/fish and veg end of the spectrum with the odd home-made treat which can be a faff but is always really well received by the child.

We are going to a dietician and allergy doctor Monday. MY sons pediatrition ordered the tests for allergies both times and I just took him off the foods he was allergic to. After this 2nd test we decided we needed to find out what is gong on with his body to make him stay sick and have all these allergies.

Thankyou for all your advice. I will definitly check out Lola Workmans site. My sons doctor said I was not to put him back in daycare so to go back to work I have to find someone within their home to watch him. I am a single mom so that makes it even harder.

There's a v good book by Alice Sherwood from Amazon re allergy cooking and has options for gluten free / egg free / dairy free / nut free for each recipe well set out. It's called The Allergy-Free Cookbook.

PS I often use the Alpro Soya desserts (not yoghurt ones but long life chocolate / vanilla / caramel instead of an egg in normal cake recipes as they bind the ingredients and are sweet too.
(My daughter has Egg, Dairy, Sesame, Nuts, Fish allergy.. you become the nutter in the supermarket looking at all the labels. Watch out for "icing sugar" as that can contain egg whites - M&S do one that doesn't, who would have thought sugar wouldn't just be sugar?!

I'm not sure your doc's advice re. daycare is very helpful tbh. Whilst it certainly can be risky, it is perfectly possible to find safe care, although you may have to change your current provider if they haven't taken the allergies on board. Trust your instincts and have a full and frank talk with the staff. In some ways having your child going to a childminder or similar may be riskier - unless they are fanatical about cleaning their house is likely to have allergens around, they may have eaten nuts the night before etc. Nurseries at least are likely to have a no nut policy and professional cleaners.

My dd has had severe anaphylactic reactions to milk, which is everywhere in nurseries but she was completely safe in hers. It isn't that I am a particularly relaxed - there was a lot of worrying and checking going on. In general though I do feel that it is best not to narrow down your or your child's life but try and manage the situation as well as you can. It must be really hard to cope with this as a single parent - keep reminding yourself you are doing a great job!

I know the feeling - son has allergies to gluten, milk and egg and has other intolerances. First, do not use Dove's Farm Bread flour as someone has suggested as it has rice flour in it.

You can make bread with a combination of the following:

potato, corn or tapioca flour, and gram (the best substitute for soya flour by the way) flour. Equally you can use that sort of mix to make biscuits and cakes. You will need to experiment! Replace eggs in baking with one heaped tablespoon of cornflour (use tapioca or potato if he can't have corn) and three tablespoons of water per egg. The American coeliac forum suggests amaranth or sorghum flour - and one of the posts gives the proportions for an all purpose flour: www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.php?showtopic=38069

You will find glutenfree/wheatfree recipes and other information re additional intolerances here: coeliac.info/suppboard/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=5e43377496152f0c2b8be4259f72b1ba

This is also very useful: www.sensitivefoodies.co.uk/index.php?option=com_garyscookbook&Itemid=54

you can eliminate some ingredients and then substitute others.

Good luck! Once you have experimented a bit you will be surprised what you can do.

hi hope is not lost there is the scd diet :specific carbohydrate diet by elaine gottschell please look up pecanpie.com or even scd on google, it is a highly successful diet mainly for kids with auto immune issues such as speech but it removes all carbohydrates and starches etc., I have also got rid of my allergies by doing NAET from a kinesiologist who removes them one by one through a moving the mauscles on your arm, it helped me you can look up naet.org
there is egg replacers but I mainly give my child a gluten free casein free soy free egg diet but we do use rice, all organic home made food you might want to look up glurenandcaseinfree.com

Just to back up what other mum's have said really. My ds is severely allergic to eggs, dairy, sesame, nuts, soya and peas and we have had him in childcare since he was 6 months old with no problems at all. We have been lucky finding a brilliant childminder but I'm sure she's not the only one out there. All the kids have allergy free lunches on the days ds is with her so he doesn't feel excluded.

I've found the dieticians at the hospital to be no help at all (recommending ready salted crisps for a 2 year old? don't think so...)
Mumsnet has been by far the most helpful resource that I've had access to so keep posting your questions and I'm sure you'll get the help you need.

I agree with everyone else as well. My DS is in nursery 2 days a week. The staff there were given training in dealing with allergic children which was arranged by my DS' allergy specialist.

for not realising there was rice in Doves flour. My tip for wheat free flour is Xanthum Gum, which you can get in Tescos or health food stores but not in our Sainsburys. I even add this to flour that contains it already as it seems to work better. Haven't tried adding it to bread flour yet but think I will next time. It's of vegetable origin.

tbh I put dd in childcare when she was a baby (at the time she had allergies to dairy, egg and soya) and they made mistakes all the time with what they gave her to eat. Was absolutely horrific and she ended up in hospital.

I'm afraid I would agree with your doc and wouldn't trust a nursery at all.

I would be careful with gram flour as well. It is made from chickpeas which are part of the same family as soyabeans and my soya allergic DS is also allergic to chickpeas.

foxinsocks, that is awful!! Did you take it any further?

no and I really regret not doing so

unfortunately, another little boy (who went to the same chain of nurseries, not the same branch as mine) ended up dying from a similar mistake

I think a lot has been learned since then tbh and nurseries do seem to be better (this was in 2000/2001) but it sounded the death knell for me using them!

I was recommended the allergy free cookbook and it is very helpful
The thing is not to panic and take your time finding things.
the temptation is always to focus on what your child can't eat and try to replace it when actually if you list the meats veggies and fruits plus any grains that they CAN eat it is much less daunting.

DS2 cannot eat any Gluten any dairy, eggs, soya, rice, yeast or almonds ( most nuts actually) and when i realised he had to avoid all of these I literally wept.
But we are getting to grips with it gradually and he is not feeling too hard done by.
Whole Earth jellies and home made ice lollies have helped ease his pain .
its hard though so good luck