Son allergic to EVERYTHING - what to do?Apparently DS is allergic to the following things: dairy (I knew he was allergic to milk, so this wasn't a big surprise for me) oatmeal (!) rice (!) potatoes (!) yeast cinnamon oranges but he is NOT allergic to wheat I am at a loss at how to restructure the menu, and hope for some wisdom. I already cook everything from scratch. My son likes all ingredients to be completely separate, so I cook lots of single-ingredient things. Regularly he eats either oatmeal or yogurt for breakfast. For lunch and/or dinner he eats some of the following: hot dogs, tofu, pasta, potatoes, rice, couscous, corn. He also eats bread and bagels. He eats muffins that I make. Snacks and rewards are cookies and milk chocolate. In terms of vegetables he eats avocado, carrots, cucumber, and tomato. In terms of fruit he eats melons, pears, and apples, and some citrus fruits. The biggest problem is going to be breakfast: I have no idea what to give him instead of oatmeal, yogurt and/or bagel. He does not like soy yogurt. Eggs are permitted, but in the morning he usually doesn't want them. I was also thinking to go the GFCF route, but that means also excluding wheat, to which he is not allergic. GFCF mixes usually have potato starch and rice flour, and both potato and rice are a no. Also if we go the GFCF route then we cannot eat couscous, which he loves. Basically all his favorite starchy foods will be excluded. We are waiting to do the food panel, maybe we'll find that he's allergic to even more things :( Any advice, thoughts, sample menus and recipe links will be much appreciated!! You may have to do a rotation diet. Completely cutting out dairy, and rotating the rest of the foods on a four day schedule. For instance, if he has oats on Monday, then he can have it again on Friday. As far as yogurt, I agree the soy stuff is nasty :( I would try the coconut milk yogurt which is really, really good. You could give him a little coconut yogurt in his yogurt he eats now, and then in a couple days do a larger ratio of coconut yogurt to regular yogurt, and so on until he's eating all coconut yogurt. I'm really surprised your DAN did skin allergy testing. Most DAN's do blood testing. Irregardless, the rest of the foods he's allergic to you can add in to the rotation diet. FWIW- my oldest son came back reactive/allergic to 32 foods. Even most of the alternate grains you would use in place of wheat (which he's allergic too also). We are really knuckling down on his diet this Saturday and rotating the foods. I would google rotation diet and see what you come up with. I wish I could help you more but I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it, myself. Oh...for breakfast. Will he eat dry cereals with milk? Waffles or pancakes with pure maple syrup or jelly? Hummus and pita bread? I would try thinking outside the box on this one and try to figure out other things he likes for lunch/dinner that you can feed him for breakfast. My youngest son (the ASD'er) is not big on breakfast foods but he WILL eat rice cereals (gluten free rice krispies basically), organic bologna on pita bread, hummus and pita, fruit, organic dairy free poptarts are an occasional treat when we're really rushed (which he won't be able to have anymore now that we found he's allergic to wheat), peanut butter and honey sandwiches, coconut milk yogurt with fruit and granola. I really don't care what he eats as long as he gets some food in his stomach. We threw breakfast foods by the wayside a long time ago for the most part- neither of my boys are big fans |
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