Thank you for your reply!!  I can not do any formulas that are available
without a prescription...even alimentum and nutramigen have milk and soy
proteins, as well as having corn, which I suspect is a problem.  I am going
to keep at the diet and start to re-intro the top 8.  My current thinking is
I am going  to add back in wheat and take out oats and corn and see what
happens....my thinking is that if wheat is an issue he will get worse; if
not, he will stay same; if he gets significantly better then I can assume
corn and/or oats was an issue (which I am really thinking is a good chance)
and reintro them separately at a later time.  What do you think??  Thanks
again!!

Nancy

"Mothers of little boys work from son-up to son-down!"

"My sons  are my greatest accomplishment and the opportunity to raise them
is my greatest challenge"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robyn Kozierok" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: 4 weeks today---my fellow breastfeeding dieters....


> Hi Nancy!  Sorry to hear the elimination diet is not working for you.
> I did something similar and didn't get any answers either.  sigh...  My
> son was having reflux and blood in his stool.  My older son had been
> sensitive to milk, soy, peanuts and peas in my diet.  With my youngest,
> though, I went down to turkey, brown rice, sweet potato, pear and maple
> syrup/sugar for several weeks, and like your son, he got only a little
> better.  I had figured he would have to either get all better or get
> way worse (if he happened to be allergic to one of the items I was
> eating, since I was eating tons of those items!).
>
> > disaster but I have been good since, but still he spits up often, seems
=
> > uncomfortable, doesn't sleep well, has eczema and just seems "not quite
=
> > right".
>
> In my case, we weren't dealing with eczema and his doctor advised us
> that the bloody stool was not dangerous, so we treated the reflux
> symptomatically, and I went back to a full diet.  He outgrew it by
> a year.
>
> One other thing you might consider trying is a hypoallergenic formula,
> while you pump (to maintain your supply).  We did that with the milk,
> soy, peanut, pea fellow for a while while mucking with my diet.  I
> *really* didn't want to bottle feed for many reasons, but it did
> provide some information that helped solve his mystery.
>
> > my husband even feels bad for me =
> > (that's a HUGE thing; he doesn't usually feel bad for anyone who CHOOSES
=
> > to do something and then complains).
>
> My husband was pretty much in awe of me.  It is one thing to choose
something
> for yourself, and another thing to choose to make a big sacrifice for your
> baby.
>
> > tired.  I am on the fence about reflux meds and about allergy blood =
> > testing--I have been told RAST is more accurate than SPT (but I know, by
=
> > exper. with my older guy, that they can also be useless sometimes). Any
=
> > suggestions?  Thanks!!
>
> I would do the reflux meds if they make him feel better.  We did Zantac
> which worked better for my first allergic kid than my second, but was
> still helpful in reducing his pain as well.
>
> The blood testing, I didn't find useful at all.  We did it the first
> time and I don't recall the results, but they didn't correspond well with
> what empirical evidence showed.
>
> Good luck to you!!
>
> --Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)