To think my son has a pasta allergy???

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Rewind 6 months and we were having trips back and forth to GP as my son had been having regular nights/mornings where he was violently vomiting. It started when he was about 1. The only thing I could link it to was it was the nights we had pasta on. I brought this up with the GP and he said it couldn't be correct as that would be a gluten problem, which would mean he wouldn't cope well with bread etc.
Nonetheless, I cut pasta out on the off chance it was that and it didn't happen. Without thinking today, I let him have 5/6 spoonfuls of pasta, and here we go at 5am with him throwing up everywhere.
Is it possible to have just a pasta allergy?

Just don't give him Pasta if you've worked out that's the cause of the vom. It doesn't really matter why, just don't give it to him! There are plenty of other foods available and it's not like you're cutting out a whole food group.

I have a friend whose child is very allergic to eggs and she kept giving them to him when he was little, even though it made him very ill. Never could understand it.

Cheese does this to my DH, any cheese and it makes him violently ill. I thinkit's an intolerance to a process it goes through, maybe your DS is the same

Yeah, I'm definitely cutting pasta out for good now! I just wish I knew if it was an allergy to something or other like that.

I didn't even think before giving it to him this time. He's had a bite or two and been fine but the last he had it properly and vomited was over 6 months ago! Definitely not again, it's still going now

I wonder if the problem might be that small pasta shapes are very easy to swallow whole, and as a result he's just having problems digesting them?

The obvious solution is to temporarily stop giving him pasta. Try again in a few months and maybe try larger pasta shapes that he has to bite and chew?

From what you describe it's hard to imagine that it's an allergy, unless it's to something in the pasta sauce.

Could be tomato’s. That’s pretty common

Was it fresh egg pasta? My DS was allergic to eggs and couldn't eat anything including cakes etc. But as his allergy started going we were told by his Dr to start with a small cake etc and build up his tolerance...it was a few years before he ever eat a cooked egg on its own and under hospital guidance.

My ds is extremely allergic to semolina. Maybe try pasta made with rice or maize?

Definitely sounds like you're seeing an intolerance to pasta, but one that's down to some sensitivity that's nothing to do with gluten and is only triggered by durum wheat (different wheats have different protein composition) and not by other wheats used in cakes and breads.

It sounds to me like it is time to start checking ingredients lists carefully to see if you can spot anything useful. Like someone else above I wondered about tomato. Hope you can figure it out.

If it was an allergy he would react to it very soon after eating it. So I think you can rule allergy out. If it was an intolerance then he would most likely have bad wind and diarrhoea. Also, it's the ingredients that cause allergies/intolerances so he would react to bread or pastry in exactly the same way. If it was because the pasta isn't being digested again he would vomit much sooner. He's most likely just got a bug that has coincided with him eating pasta.
When he's well, try giving him some pasta by itself, no sauce, no other food to see if he reacts.

@Soontobe60 I always put it down to a coincidence but since his 1st birthday (almost a year ago), he's only had 7 vomiting 'bugs' and they're all after he's ate pasta.

@Soontobe60 well not 'only'. It was a regular thing last year which is why it was a big deal!

Maybe lay off the pasta?

I wouldn't rule out gluten intolerance just yet. Keep a close eye on him with bread too. It could be to do with his system getting overloaded with gluten, he may be OK with the smaller amounts you get in bread.

My DS reacted by vomiting badly periodically, he is coeliac.

@whassupmissus as I said, first time in half a year since he's had it.

Tomato sauce, those tinned shapes are processed rubbish anyway. As a child I couldn't have anything with concentrated tomato in or I would vomit.

Has it happened every time he ate pasta?

@NotANotMan he's okay if he eats one-two forkfuls but if he's ate it as a meal then yeah. It did take a few times to catch what it was at the start.

Switch to gluten feee pasta. If it still happens it's not ten pasta.

tomato?

It could be tomato, that's something I'm considering. DM said he's had cheesy pasta at her house twice and no reaction. No tomato sauce in the one yesterday but was actual slow roasted tomatoes.

When my DS was 1 we stopped feeding him pasta as he was also throwing up after eating it. I cant remember how old he was when he had pasta again but he seemed to have grown out of whatever it was causing the problem.

But if it was tomato, would it be possible to only have a reaction 12-24 hours later?

Allergies don't necessarily mean immediate onset of symptoms - you can get delayed onset allergies which involve a different part of the immune system (DD has them).

I know nothing about it other than that it exists, but there is a type of delayed onset allergic reaction called FPIES where children vomit profusely 0.5-6 hours after having something they are allergic to. There's more information at www.fpiesuk.org , might be worth reading and seeing if any of it rings true to you?