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Hello,

     My three and one half year old adopted daughter has be diagnosed as
failure to thrive.  At about 6 months old, she was round and pudgy.  SHe had
lots and lots of ear infections and then finally had tubes placed when she
was about 10 months old.  By this time, she wasn't gaining weight, screamed
when she had certain foods, and we started with the gastroenterologist and
allergist.  The allergist said she was allergic to dairy, and low and behold,
the wheat allergy I thought she had was instead dairy.  We eliminated dairy,
but kept in wheat, but she was miserable and still did not grow.  The
gastroenterologist then did blood work and biopsy.  The blood work showed IgA
deficiency, and high IgG (or vise versa)  The biopsy was inconclusive.  We
put her on a gluten free diet, and she did better, but still was miserable a
lot of the time.  Allergy blood tests showed that she was low level allergic
to every food they tested her for, so she continued to eat those foods.  Eggs
were determined to be  a big problem when they were isolated, but didn't seem
to cause her a problem in foods.  Now, she had another endoscopy, and it
showed no flattening (but she has been gluten free for 2 years) but it showed
evidence of relux, and a prominent ampulla.  She has been on Zantac for two
years because the first endoscopy showed ulcers.

     I was wondering if any of the Dr Fine's tests could help show if gluten
is really a problem.  She is still very very small (26 pounds at 3 1/2) and
still looks pale, has about 3-4 bowel movements per day, and between bursts
of energy, she colapses in a ball of fatigue.

     I could really use some suggestions.  Sorry if this is hard to follow.
     Kathy