My 4yo daughter has had trouble pooing in the past and has a really distended tummy. She has a dairy allergy and recently we are seeing positive results from removing gluten from her diet. She's just back from the docs and now they want to try removing fruit and sugar for a week to see if it makes a difference. Does anyone on here, with similar allergies, have any suggestions of what treats and snacks she could have? Crisps are the obvious one but I'm looking for more options.
Dairy/gluten/sugar free snack help
Caporegime
Biltong, pepperami, deli meats in general
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Nuts like pistachio or cashew are a great snack and very filling.
Caporegime
Cucumber/carrot sticks/pepper.
Just as an FYI most crisps are not gluten free. They should be, but a lot of the flavourings contain gluten, or they are made alongside gluten containing products so cross contamination is possible.
Soldato
Seabrooks are at least.
She's been gluten free for a while so we know which crisps to buy and what to avoid. But thanks for the heads up anyway.
I've read that some fruits like strawberries and bananas are actually low in fructose so, after this week trial, and of we have to continue with it, at least she can have them.
It's really quite sad when you tell your 4yo kid that she can't eat anything that she likes. Shes been brilliant with it all up until now but she went to bed last night in the huff.
Apparently carrot contains gluten
Carrots are gluten free. There may be problems arising from pre prepared things like carrot sticks or glazed carrots as they may have additives that contain gluten, the carrots themselves don't, so you can make your own carrot sticks.Apparently carrot contains gluten
Sorry, I'm confusing myself, I meant to say carrots contain fructose.
If I remmber then nay fructose intolerence is actually soemthing more related to the ratio of fructose to glucose? whiuch makes sugar and some fruits perfectly fine, but a few fruits have a much higher fructose ratio
Caporegime
They contain a mid to low amount provided they're not baby carrots but you wouldn't be usually aiming to completely eliminate fructose. I don't know why the requirement for sugar free either?
Strawberries/blackberries and carrots (not baby ones) are all in the mid/low fructose area looking at the Mayo clinic info. They mention banana as low fructose which doesn't appear to be true however.
Nectarines are mid/low fructose and apricots are low.
Nice guide sheet here:
http://www.wch.sa.gov.au/services/az/other/nutrition/documents/Low_fructose_diet_for_children.pdf
So apricots, cucumber, celery, sweetcorn would all be a good starting point for a 4 year old.
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I'm talking about fruit. My kids eat punnets of fruit every day. It seems like gluten free cereals may be what we have to give her during the day.That's called parentingmy kids would live off coco pops if they could.
Caporegime
Has she actually been diagnosed with coeliac? Atleast a third of the kids at our daughters pre school are gluten free but none of them have a diagnosis, it seems to be a bit of a fad.
Thank you.
Caporegime
Have you got a dietician involved? That would he really helpful.
We've been seeing a dietician through the NHS for about a year now.