Somehow, my karma is such that I am destined to not have gluten in my diet.
It all started in 1997 when my first son, Alistair, was not even a year old. Around the time he started eating something other than breast milk, he started to get a rash on his chin. Initially, I did not feel it was a huge problem, but each week, it got worse and worse. I took him to the doctor. He said it wasn't an infection, but just childhood eczema and to put cortisone on it. YIKES!!! Needless to say, it wasn't the first time I didn't listen to the doctor's advice.
My friend Kim, who suffered from food allergies, suggested that is what could be going on. So I did some elimination of the most common allergens, and sure enough, he got better. Over the course of a few months, we nailed down everything he was allergic to which left him with a paltry 20 or so foods he could eat. Wheat was among the things that caused him to break out. As I was still nursing him, I was confined to eating only what he could eat.
I had to activate all my creativity to make life more interesting for him and me. My husband, bless his heart, also ate what we ate. My best tool: A Vita-Mix blender. I was able to grind my own flour, not to mention making ice cream (allergic to dairy, too). I bought some allergy cookbooks. He was allergic to SO MANY things, that they were often not partcularly useful. I adapted, I experimented--Alistair was a guinea pig for my creations. Fortunately, he wasn't a picky eater at the time. He had so few choices that he gladly ate anything new.
Eventually we were hit that the news that Alistair was allergic to Garlic and Onions and I decided life wasn't worth living without those two food staples, so we stopped nursing over the course of a month or so. He was nearly 2, and I wasn't really producing enough milk for him due to not eating enough. After all, how many bowls of plain rice can you choke down?
Wheat made its way back into my diet, I gained a few pounds, and life was back to normal for the adults in the family. Alistair continued to eat his restricted diet, which got larger as we pursued homeopathic treatment.
By the time he was 5 or 6, he was able to eat Wheat again.
More later....
It all started in 1997 when my first son, Alistair, was not even a year old. Around the time he started eating something other than breast milk, he started to get a rash on his chin. Initially, I did not feel it was a huge problem, but each week, it got worse and worse. I took him to the doctor. He said it wasn't an infection, but just childhood eczema and to put cortisone on it. YIKES!!! Needless to say, it wasn't the first time I didn't listen to the doctor's advice.
My friend Kim, who suffered from food allergies, suggested that is what could be going on. So I did some elimination of the most common allergens, and sure enough, he got better. Over the course of a few months, we nailed down everything he was allergic to which left him with a paltry 20 or so foods he could eat. Wheat was among the things that caused him to break out. As I was still nursing him, I was confined to eating only what he could eat.
I had to activate all my creativity to make life more interesting for him and me. My husband, bless his heart, also ate what we ate. My best tool: A Vita-Mix blender. I was able to grind my own flour, not to mention making ice cream (allergic to dairy, too). I bought some allergy cookbooks. He was allergic to SO MANY things, that they were often not partcularly useful. I adapted, I experimented--Alistair was a guinea pig for my creations. Fortunately, he wasn't a picky eater at the time. He had so few choices that he gladly ate anything new.
Eventually we were hit that the news that Alistair was allergic to Garlic and Onions and I decided life wasn't worth living without those two food staples, so we stopped nursing over the course of a month or so. He was nearly 2, and I wasn't really producing enough milk for him due to not eating enough. After all, how many bowls of plain rice can you choke down?
Wheat made its way back into my diet, I gained a few pounds, and life was back to normal for the adults in the family. Alistair continued to eat his restricted diet, which got larger as we pursued homeopathic treatment.
By the time he was 5 or 6, he was able to eat Wheat again.
More later....
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