Wheat intolerance causing eczema in 9 month old?

[EmmalinaC]

DD2 is 9 months old and has suffered from eczema since she started on solids.

Last week she was unwell and for several days refused all foods except milk, fromage frais and fruit/vegetable purees. Her eczema completely disappeared but has returned worse than ever now she has resumed her normal diet, which is very high in wheat (toast and weetabix for breakfast, daily pasta etc).

Just wondered if anyone else has found wheat to be a trigger for infant eczema?

I'd like to try excluding wheat again for a few days to see if it helps but I'm not sure what alternative foods I would need to give her to ensure she's still getting a balanced diet. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hi, sorry to hear that. Wheat is a known allergen. There are heaps of alternatives to wheat. Look in the "free from" section in the supermarket and you can get bread (Genius bread from Tesco is great) and lots of pasta made from corn or rice instead of wheat. If it does end up being wheat then you just need to get used to reaading the labels on things as wheat can be in a lot of stuff that you would not imagine. My LO had very bad eczema but after many allergy tests we are not able to give him wheat, diary, soya, eggs, nuts, oats and sesame. If her eczema does not improve maybe go and speak to your dr about allergy testing?

You could try her with just wholewheat foods for a few days and see if that makes a difference - my DD can tolerate wholewheat but not refined/bleached wheat. So try wholewheat pasta, wholegrain brown rice and check the ingredients on bread don't just assume its only wholewheat flour. Organix do apple and raspberry & blueberry rice cakes which my DD loves (even now she is 5!)