His peanut allergy is now off the charts (level 6), which scares me to DEATH. He has developed a level 3 soy allergy, which is also discouraging. The good news is that all the healthy eating he has been forced to do since birth has done his body good. He is rarely sick. I've never had to take him to the doctor for an illness (just allergies and injuries) He has never had an ear infection. He doesn't get colds. He has never taken antibiotics. Although I would take ear infections and colds over a peanut allergy any day.
Weight: 37 1/4 (58th %)
Height: 41 1/4 (65 %)
I'm wondering if he would have grown more (he is usually in a higher percentile) if I hadn't reintroduced gluten to his diet in the last year. When he was a baby, he went several months without growing at all. His thyroid and growth hormone were out of whack and we were taking him to specialists. After one month of going off wheat and dairy, everything normalized and he started growing again. I'm feeling a little guilty about not thinking that decision through, but hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.
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You are a wonderful mother who has done more already than many parents I know. I had digestion problems my whole life and did my parents ever think to get me tested for allergies or take me off dairy? Nope they just assumed I had eaten too much sugar (even though there was no sugar in the house) and scold me. So pat yourself on the back because you are on top of things!
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