Food intolerances & bf

[AngelDog]

I think my 13 m.o. may have a bit of an intolerance to peppers as he's been really windy at night on the occasions I can remember him eating them. I ate some the other day (I don't think he did) and he had terrible wind problems again in the night. Would it be possible for this to be passed on via bm?

My mum has a bad intolerance to peppers and while I don't, they do repeat on me rather a lot, so there is a bit of a family history.

I wouldn't have thought that any effect on your DS from you eating them and passing it on through BM would happen b/c of the filtration sp? system and it being so quick, you said you ate them and he was struck with wind that night.

Why don't you hold off on them for a while and see if the issues 'repeat'..if they do, then you know that they are not to blame.

No, I wasn't sure either. I keep meaning to try again at some point with eating peppers again, but DS isn't the best sleeper anyway (and he needs feeding a million times a night due to bad teething at the moment) so it's hard to summon up the courage to risk another rough night.

I feel for you on that point. Good luck with that.

It could affect him. Ds2 and I went on a strictly dairy-free diet from 18m, when I realised that he was dairy-intolerant, until I stopped breastfeeding him at 3yo. During the first 12m or so, if I slipped up and ate so much as a sandwich madewith butter, he reacted. Not as severely as when he drank cowsmilk, but nonetheless a reaction.

Though I would query the connection with peppers. Did you just have peppers, fresh? Or was it a cooked dish, with onions and spices? Because the sort of things that peppers are typically cooked with, are foods that do tend to repeat on people, and that can also upset a little bfd baby's stomach.

It was cooked, with chicken & carrots, probably onions, but creamy rather than spicy IIRC (it was at a friend's house).

Maybe when his teeth are through I'll experiment again.

If I give him peppers, he'll throw them around but not eat them, which also makes me wonder, as he was doing this when he would try everything you put in front of him. When he has eaten them, it's been in something like a risotto where he might not have spotted them.