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?

I finally worked out after many years that my DS is allergic to cooked tomatoes. Not raw, only cooked. Google it - the chemical makeup changes when the tomato is cooked. It wasn’t every time, which threw me off, but frequently. Worse with larger quantities - so pizza seems ok - and gets worse the more rich and long-cooked the sauce is.

Sorry that makes little sense without saying - so it was the sauce that was the problem not the pasta!

Yeah. I would get him checked for coeliac, just in case.

I have it and was only diagnosed a couple of years ago. But, the symptoms were there as a child. I would bloat and vomit after eating.

At the time I was diagnosed, I could eat bread but now, having been gluten free for two years, if I get accidentally glutened I get the symptoms.

Also, my symptoms don’t happen straight away. They slowly get worse. Depending on what I’ve eating or how much, I might only get bloating and not much pain or sickness.

@Fresta yes, I corrected that in the post straight after!

And I didn't realise about the adult meals? It isn't a 'ready meal'. It's a pasta pot, off of fresh for 1-2 days with fresh ingredients, so is that not the exact same as making it homemade???? I don't give him processed microwave food, in my head it's the same as buying him a fresh sandwich out and about?

That there isn't what's making him sick either, because as I stated, that's been once yesterday, and before that it's homemade dry pasta.

Op look at the salt content of what you are giving him.

And then compare that against his daily recommended limit.

@Redskyandrainbows67 his portion came to 0.7g of salt and the daily recommended is 2g. I guess I just didn't think about that which is a complete mistake on my part, but he's a very healthy baby who eats homemade, fresh food all of the time and that was just because we were out and about.

Salt allowance for 1 to 3 year olds is up to 2gs a day (0.8g sodium).

Ready meals tend to have extra salt and sugars in so always check. Some designed for kids can be very high in sugar so don’t always trust that either.

@MiddleClassProblem complete mistake on my part I guess. It's definitely not the problem with the vomiting as he's not had one before, but I feel absolutely awful today now!!!!!

If it’s a one off it’s probably fine but just something to watch for in the future. Obviously adding up sales in bread, pasta, beans etc.

I agree - one off is fine. But you do need to watch. Shop bought sandwiches are very high in salt usually too.

*salt not sales

If it's tomato it could be a nightshade allergy

That's interesting @winsinbin I'm like that with Shepherds pie!

OP this happens to me. I cannot digest or tolerate pasta at all! I can manage on gluten free so the only thing I can think is it’s the durum wheat flour they use to make pasta. I am mostly fine on other gluten containing foods although they make me bloat if I eat too much, but I always assumed everyone bloats after gorging on a whole baguette

Lots of incorrect assumptions on this thread. After dealing with allergies and intolérances in children for 15 years now, all I can say if follow what you see and assume nothing!!!

I have seen vomiting up to 72 hours after a good item being ingested, intolérances come and go depending on what else is being consumed / state of over all immune system / presence of other non food triggers. There have been many times when I have removed suspected items and reactions have stopped, the weirdest ones being a poinsettia plant and ylang ylang essential oil, in both cases these were not in the same room as the child having a reaction.

Often, removing the obvious culprit results in more issues rising to the surface and reactions becoming more intense / immediate / obvious. Having to temporarily remove 'similar' items like all deadly night shades when tomatoes were a problem, all grains when gluten was a problem. The most commonly seen example is temporary dairy intolerance around gluten allergies. The gut and immune system also needs time to heal, removing and reintroducing too quickly is not always a good idea. And unhelpfully, the tests don't always show everything.

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If it's tomato it could be a nightshade allergy

In which case he might have problems with tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and aubergine as well.

ForgivenessIsDivine, agree, the test doesn't always show, but most severe(immidiate) ones do, don't they?
My ds has allergy to cow's milk, but doesn't show on prick test or blood test anymore. Yet if consumed, he end up having rash all over his back and diarrhea.
At my ds's hospital, they are able to test 120+ allergens from one single blood test. I thought it was worth having it.

Allergy testing seems to be the way to go.
Good luck