to ban DD from eating chicken

[GreatMintPeer]

I know this might sound extreme, but hear me out. My DD has been having some digestive issues lately. She's been complaining of stomach aches and feeling bloated after meals. After doing some research, I discovered that chicken can be a common trigger for digestive issues in some people.

I decided to do an experiment and cut chicken out of her diet for a week. Lo and behold, her stomach aches disappeared and she felt much better overall. I was thrilled that I had found a simple solution to her discomfort.

But now, DD is begging me to let her have chicken again. She misses her favorite meals and feels left out when her friends are eating chicken nuggets at school. I understand where she's coming from, but I can't ignore the fact that her health has improved since cutting out chicken.

I've tried to explain to her the reasons behind my decision, but she just doesn't seem to understand. She thinks I'm being unfair and depriving her of something she enjoys. I feel torn between wanting to make her happy and wanting to keep her healthy.

So, am I being unreasonable to ban my DD from eating chicken? I just want what's best for her, but I can't help feeling guilty for denying her something she loves. Any advice or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Absolutely. It's bonkers.

if the child is eating bread cake biscuits, flour based goods of any kind without problem then its not the gluten in the nuggets. Same with the egg.

If you replace chicken with turkey, does she still have issues?

Yet another OP who hasn't returned to her thread. This is getting ridiculous.

I have never heard chicken being a common cause for bloating and stomach pain and if this is the first food you think to try eliminate, it sounds more like an agenda. I would have thought going to a specialist and get tested would be a good idea. Normal trigger would be processed food, oily food, lactose and gluten. Other than seafood, chicken is probably one of the easiest meat to digest.

This reminds me so much of my mother, except she wouldn't dream of asking anybody what they thought, if she decided something, that was it.

There were so many things she banned when what would have solved everything would have been not saying the doctors were stupid and making it up because everybody knows it's impossible to be allergic to bread and milk (she couldn't read or say Coeliac, so called it allergic instead).

She'd have probably bought the crappy vegan nuggets rather than buy chicken, too. And then complain if I chucked up or wouldn't eat them.

I agree with everyone saying go to the Dr and with those saying try plain chicken.

I have lactose intolerance and my symptoms are similar to your DD. I'm not saying that she has this, I'm just explaining that it can take you by surprise.

So I don't drink milk, I can tolerate cheese and I can use milk in cooking in small amounts eg milk in mashed potato.

But I had a reaction after trying some new sausages. I also once had a reaction after eating a chicken kebab in a pub. I would not have thought either would have lactose in them.

Before going to the Dr it might be worth keeping a food diary for a week or two.

I have been told to keep off chicken by a go while I was trying to shift a d&v bug that had rumbled in to 2 nearly 2 weeks. I was also told to avoid dairy but eat lots of salty peanuts and crisps.

I think that GP's have their own views on what they think works in these kind of circs....hopefully they are more evidence based now but you still get varying advice. I had a similar thing when I was working in the NHS where its taken very seriously indeed because of passing it around the patients. I had to send samples, stay at home until I was 48 hours clear and stay hydrated. Local NHS infection control, who dealt with it, sent me to my own GP for a consultation but told me under no circumstances to take the medication (loperamide) which he prescribed saying that it would only delay recovery. The thing with stuff like viral D and V (which this was) is that it will run its course in a healthy person. Sometimes, rarely, the course is a long one and people will think that whatever they were doing when the thing ends is the thing that fixed it...like telogen effluvium and hair growth shampoos. Correlation does not mean causation.

Really, that's weird, I'm currently waiting for an gluten intolerance test!

I'm absolutely baffled by the people suggesting op needs to waste gp time getting a formal diagnosis of some kind of chicken intolerance. Literally if you eat something and it makes you ill just stop eating it. I have no idea what has happened to common sense in this day and age.

By all means experiment by reintroduction, but there's a good chance she doesn't tolerate chicken well. My partner has the exact same issue, he can't eat any chicken at all. He's been vegetarian for years now and prefers. Could your daughter try some chicken replacement?

Also, people exclude whole food groups for religious reasons, moral reasons, taste preference, allergies, etc and it's not going to lead to eating disorders FFS. I have had anorexia for years and it has nothing to do with if my mum fed me vegan nuggets or chicken nuggets as a child.

There’s no such thing as an ‘intolerance’ test anyway so don’t waste your money and buy one online or think a GP can do that.
A GP can discuss the symptoms though as there may very well be a completely different cause

Chicken nuggets are not chicken !!!!
they are full of crap
try healthy roast chicken no upf

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Quorn is highly allergenic, also know to cause bad stomach problemd

Gluten is in so many things - coatings, stock cubes, soy sauce etc. If your daughter is okay with simple grilled chicken (grilled on a very clean grill to avoid cross contamination), she's probably fine with chicken meat.

https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/gluten-intolerant-or-coeliac#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20specific%20test,be%20because%20of%20something%20else.

You can test for coeliac but not gluten intolerance.

yup, I can't go near it

I agree. It makes no sense at all to start a thread like this and never return to it to respond to all the posts.

Yanbu

My husband had this. He looked like hed been starbed he was so skinny and ill. Frequent vomitting and diarhea. Was fobbed off as ibs.
He eliminated everything except chicken and potatoes and it turned out to be the chicken.

It took a lot of work to find alternatives that he liked instead, he was only early 20s at the time and wasn't keen on pork or seafood at the time. After eliminating it for a really long time, he can now eat it very occasionally with just a tummy ache to show for it.
But if he falls of the chicken wagon in a big way the problem comes roaring back

Plain chicken should be fine
More likely it s the coatings
Test for coeliac

Just to add, buying organic quality chicken made zero difference, results were the same as a cheap reclaimed meatturkey drummer. It was the type of protein that was doing my husband in. Cooking methods didn't alter the outcome.

Ignore posters that want to sneer at chicken intolerance, it's a thing.

If it is gluten, why did her DD recover after cutting out chicken but not cutting out bread/pasta and all the myriad of other sources of gluten?

Replace "chicken" in the OP with "youtube" or "tiktok" or "vaping" and instead of stomach ache think boredom.

This isn't about chicken.