interesting question....she might've been tested for that too as an infant (bc she had other food allergies too, but sad i can't remember!), but she displays/reports absolutely no symptoms in response to gluten/wheat products....

...i guess you've seen the cookbook/recipes published by the food allergy network? they're ok, but my favorite sources have been the vegan cookbooks from local healthfood stores. 

the other thing that was helpful was that i ordered about a dozen or so of the dairy-free ingredients cards from the food allergy network, and distributed them to day-care teachers & friends, and kept one w/ her epi pen; it made others who fed her a lot less uncomfortable to have a complete ingredient list w/ them. being pretty anal, i also wear a beeper, so if anyone (who had her & was feeding her) could reach me immediately w/ ingredients questions.... 

thanks!

Marla Shapiro, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA  30303

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Hi Marla, 

I'm curious about something - has your daughter been 
checked for wheat or gluten sensitivity? I was 
recently reading about those, along with Celiac's 
Disease and noticed that several of the symptoms are 
similar. 

I can totally relate to you on the problems with 
taking dairy completely out of a little one's diet. 
My dairy allergic son is 4 years old. I find the 
hardest things to deal with are him eating at other 
people's homes and going to parties. I have a pile of 
different allergy books that I'm sifting through 
currently to get any tips on dealing with these and 
other situations. Not to mention, they tend to have 
great recipes. I'm starting to get the hang of taking 
ordinary recipes and making them dairy free. I think 
that dealing with Lactose intolerance is a cake-walk 
compared to dairy allergy (I'm lactose intolerant so 
nobody get cranky about that comment!). 

Best Wishes! 

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