How Gluten Affects Children Part 1
The Impact of Gluten on Children
If you have recently gone gluten free and are having difficulty with helping your children go gluten free, this video series by Glutenology and Dr. Osborne is a much watch. The series discusses symptoms and diseases in infants and children that are linked to gluten intolerance and celiac disease.
Gluten Free Society and Dr. Osborne present this two part series on gluten sensitivity/intolerance and children…
Common Symptoms in Children With Gluten Sensitivity
- Growing pains
- Colic
- Reflux
- Stomach pain
- Chronic ear infections
- Hyperfollicular keratosis (skin bumps on the back of the arms)
- Failure to thrive (FTT)
- Growth stunting
- Short stature
- Constipation
- Autism
- Diarrhea
- ADD/ADHD symptoms
- Spontaneous nose bleeding
- Severe allergies (hyper allergic syndrome)
There are more listed in the video. If your child has any of the above conditions consider gluten as the potential threat to their health.
Testing Your Child For Gluten Sensitivity
If you take you child to the pediatrician to test for gluten intolerance, make sure they perform the appropriate lab testing. Blood testing and intestinal biopsy are flawed tests that often times come back falsely negative. Ask the doctor to perform genetic testing. You can learn more about gene testing for gluten issues here <<<
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We started having problems when my son was about 7 or 8 months. He stopped growing. He cried constantly and did not sleep at night. I don’t mean he only slept 5 or 6 hours, he took 20 minute naps between hours of screaming. he was prone to yeast infections and pooped in almost every diaper we changed.He had dry skin and easily got skin rashes, he was always hungry and seemed to have a bottomless stomach. He was always gassy. Within days of making him gluten free, ALL of it went away. He started sleeping through the night but most amazingly, he started talking. This was huge. He wasn’t even attempting to communicate before and wouldn’t even say my name. in days he was saying full sentences, just not very clear but he was saying everything. We have slipped a few times because gluten is in everything and when we do we can expect him to have diarhea for the next day or two, end up in our bed and he will be really whiney and fussy. Oh and rashes. I also noticed a difference in my 3 yr old daughter. Nothing quit as major,but she stopped waking up to pee and drink water every single night.
Wow I was one of the people who thought gluten was gluten, I didn’t know about the “several hundred” prolamines and glutelins that cause the wide range of confusion and misunderstanding and insensitivities.
I also agree with your comment about well educated people who sometimes get lazy and repeat and act on things that if they thought through they would have to challenge. However we are all so busy we just accept what we are told, I had until I learned from this, thankyou.
I shared my son’s story here. It took a neurologist to actually give us his diagnosis (even though I already knew). It was such a scary path since his blood work results actually caused the doctor’s to think that he had cancer, and then his seizures made them think that he may have a brain tumor.
Conner’s Story: http://cookitallergyfree.com/blog/2010/06/our-familys-neurological-link-to-gluten/
Hey
I can tell my own story, maybe later. I do get rashes but very minor these days, gluten also gives me diarrhea….. I only realized what was wrong when I was 17. Try a vegan diet I’m almost a vegan, works for me.
Take care people.