Fructose Malabsorption--have you heard of it?

[lwheelr]

Ok, if you did an elimination diet when she was 4, it would not be highly accurate. She would not be able to give you the same kind of feedback she can now. Also, most sources that instruct on how to do an elimination diet suggest doing it with foods that cause problems with a high number of people - they list those foods as "safe" when they are not.

This page tells how to do an elimination diet that will help isolate food sensitivities:

http://naturalcrohnscure.com/index....=article&id=9:eliminationdiet&catid=3:disease

It is hard, but if foods are causing irritations, you can isolate it and come up with a few safe foods within a couple of days.

The important thing is that she can't cheat. If she does, the results are meaningless.

Properly done, an elimination diet will help you know if she does have something like fructose malabsorption. She could have any number of other absorption issues, internal inflammation is a key symptom. That site above has a page on Malabsorption also, and talks about Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrate Malabsorptions, and why they are so hard to recognize and diagnose.

 

[freemotion]

Nothing to add, it has all been said! So here's another

 

[big brown horse]

Thanks!

OMG, it is going to be so hard to do another elimination diet. She still suffers from short term memory loss and she is a chow-hound. Now she forgets that she just ate and eats again if I'm not watching her.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Chow hound!

 

[abifae]

Thanks!

OMG, it is going to be so hard to do another elimination diet. She still suffers from short term memory loss and she is a chow-hound. Now she forgets that she just ate and eats again if I'm not watching her.

Auntie has locks on the mini fridge, freezer, and cupboards because Max just eats and eats and doesn't realize "full" exists.

 

[Wifezilla]

Mentally Max is about 3 on some levels. Without the locks I would never have any ingredients

Last time he got a hold of the hot pepper he put about 2 cups in his chili then spent hours complaining about his mouth and sucking on ice cubes and then complaining about his stomach.

Now we have to lock the medicine cabinet because he grabbed the pepto and started swigging it.

 

[abifae]

Now we have to lock the medicine cabinet because he grabbed the pepto and started swigging it.

I'd kill him if I lived with him. I really would. He will be the first meal of the Apocalypse once I move in with you, Auntie.

 

[big brown horse]

 

[Bethanial]

Mentally Max is about 3 on some levels. Without the locks I would never have any ingredients

Last time he got a hold of the hot pepper he put about 2 cups in his chili then spent hours complaining about his mouth and sucking on ice cubes and then complaining about his stomach.

Now we have to lock the medicine cabinet because he grabbed the pepto and started swigging it.

So that's an Autistic/Asperger's thing, and not just a "why does my little boy eat me out of house and home?"

Whoever said ADD meds make kids lose weight didn't give it to my kid with Asperger's (which tends to make medicines have different/weird effects)

 

[MsPony]

Goodness. I'm a chow hound too. Hubby actually questions if something is wrong with me because he (overweight food lover) gets full way before me.

That's too funny about Max.