No wheat/gluten, oats, dairy, or sugars..and still pain
10/26/06 01:33 PM
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Heather,
My 12 year old son was diagnosed with IBS last May, and it manifests itself as stomach pain around the navel area. We have found that he is intolerant to wheat/gluten, oats, dairy, sugars(artificial or refined.) It is a difficult diet to manage, but we try our best. I cook all his meals and it is a daunting task, but there are worse things that one can suffer in life.
When we are real strict about the diet and sleep times are kept on tab, then we seem to do better in avoiding down times with him.
For the wheat issue, I have found a flour mixture of sorghum, brown rice and tapioca works well along with xanthum gum/cornstarch/baking powder. Dairy is easy to replace with Lactaid Milk and goat milk/cheese products, and Madhava Nectar is wonderful as a sugar replacement.
However, we are still missing something in his diet as he is still down with stomach pain about once a week and that will keep him in bed for at least half the day. I feel like it's for looking for a needle in a haystack...
Peppermint tablets gave him an instant stomach ache, Aloe does the same. Can't get him to drink tea....
I have the prescription Nulev for him and sometimes it works..Tylenol 3 when it's really bad, but I really believe that the answer is getting to the source of what causes the pain.
Can you suggest any direction as to how to address this condition, or what I might look at doing for him?
(I have found that traditional doctors and GI's are really not helpful at all, other than writing out prescriptions....I feel that they just don't get it.)
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