:wave: my 2 year old daughter has intolerances to milk, pork,chicken, e211, wheatabix and brown bread. Dr's don't seem concerned as allergy tests all negative but when she eats any of the above get's terrible diarrhoea and colic lasting up to 48+ hours. She seems to be developing more each month and not getting better as the paediatrition thought also gets asthma and eczema from pink fish. I think it's a protien reaction. Does anyone have any advise?

Change her diet.

Omit the foods you suspect are causing problems, she is no doubt sensitive to them. Our daughter was allergic to wheat, eggs, and bacon. Now she is an adult and is able to eat anything she wants with no problems. It is a matter of avoiding offending foods until she is older, then, introduce a minute amount of one food until you see if she can tolerate it or not. This will allow her body to gradually adjust and be able to tolerate. If a problem arises, wait 6 weeks before trying to introduce same or another food into diet. Takes that long for all to get out of the system.

Read labels carefully and omit all foods containing wheat, chicken, milk, amd other ingredients she is apparently allergic to. It could be that her digestive system is not working right rather than being an allergy. Try the special milks available these days. Forgot name of it but one of my grandbabies is allergic to milk and must drink the special one. Comes in a can and mix with water, very expensive but worth it when a little one does not cope with the regular milk.

If necessary, change diet of whole family to foods your child can tolerate, less tempting for her. I hated to see the pitiful begging eyes of my little one when she saw other family members eating foods she wanted. The smell of them was too much and those little sad eyes melted my heart. It is easy to make nutritional meals for whole family in order to control a child's health problems.

My doctor said he couldn't test for every food allergy under the sun. That if we really wanted to determine the cause of problems of food allergies, I would have to go on a food elimination diet. It's really quite strict and unforgiving, so I wouldn't do that to a child (he hasn't even let me try the diet yet for health reasons). I would do what Marie suggested. That is what I have been doing, just avoiding what I think the culprits are.

It would be best to eliminate only one food at a time so you can narrow it down, but you don't want the kid to suffer. Maybe just start off with milk and glute, since those are the most common culprits.

They can only test for about 50 food allergies. But his symptoms sound more consistent with an intolerance than an allergy. I seem to be intolerant to wheat and oats. Nothing shows up on the various tests, but when I eat them they sit in my stomach like rocks for a few hours, then give me abdominal cramps another few hours, then gas or diarhea or both. My mother says I was also colicky as a baby and had stomach aches all the time. I wouldn't be even slightly surprised if they eventually find a strong correlation between colic and gluten.