has he been tasted for food allergies?

--- Blekicki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been reading your list serve for sometime now
> and was wondering
> if anyone can help my son, Tony.  He is 13 years old
> and he started
> having a lot of gas and diarrhea after eating things
> like raviolis and
> grilled cheese sandwiches about 2 years ago.   I
> eliminating those
> things from his diet and tried to stay away from
> foods that contained
> whey.  He was still having the symptoms but not as
> often.  Then about a
> year ago he started having gas and diarrhea more
> often and sometimes
> only 30 minutes after eating foods containing milk,
> snack type cakes and
> cookies or luncheon meats that contain lactose.  We
> went to a pediatric
> gastroenterologist in 11/2002 and Tony took the
> Hydrogen Breath Test.  I
> couldn't believe it came back negative.  I thought
> the drink would have
> sent him right into the bathroom but it never did.
> The doctor was no
> help after that.  He had us keep a food diary for 3
> weeks and then told
> Tony to stay away from the foods that bothered him.
> Now he drinks
> Lactaid milk which doesn't bother him and he takes
> Super Milk Digestant
> pills before eating some things such as white bread,
> rolls and other
> processed foods.  Sometimes they work sometimes they
> don't.
>
> If it's not lactose he's intolerant to can anyone
> tell me what is
> bothering him?  He's going to camp in the summer and
> I don't know what
> to tell them in terms of what he can and can't eat.
>
> Thank you for your help in advance.
>
> Arlene Blekicki


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