>
> My 18 month old DD has multiple food allergies/intoleran ces--she
> reacts to dairy, wheat, eggs, tree nuts, coconut, salicylates, amines,
> and, her latest "addition", chickpeas. I don't understand why she
> keeps developing new sensitivities. The two theories I've seen on
> causes of food allergies are poor gut flora (she's been taking
> probiotics since around 7 months of age, and most of the intolerances
> were discovered around 12-13 months of age) and salicylate sensitivity
> (she's been on a very low salicylate diet for 3 months, and still
> reacted to chickpeas which AFAIK neither of us has ever had before I
> introduced them 4 days ago).
>
> WHY does this keep happening? Is she just doomed to continue
> developing new food sensitivites? Is there some sort of nutritional
> deficiency she might have that could be contributing? I feel like I
> completely failed her somewhere, but I don't know where.

Hi Valerie

I was browsing around here for the first time in what must be six
months and came across your post. Sorry I haven't been around on
FailsafeNT to answer questions.

How was your DD diagnosed with these allergies? Unless she was
actually given a blood test for IgE, can you be sure this is what she
is experiencing? Food chemical reactions mimic allergies, and most
allergy tests are extremely questionable (including skin tests). All
of the foods you mention above can cause chemically mediated
non-allergic reactions due to them containing amines, salicylates, and
sulphur. Food chemical sensitive children are also more prone to
developing allergies when they are babies due to the
inflammatory/ immune system provoking effects of the food chemicals
themselves.



Welcome back, Emma:)

She technically has intolerances and not allergies. I've determined
them by elimination diets. They are definitely food intolerances and
not food chemical sensitivites as she has a different pattern of
reactions to amines and salicylates. I wasn't aware that wheat had
any food chemicals at all, and she reacted to coconut and tree nuts in
the same way as she did to wheat.

I do understand that she was more likely to develop allergies since
she is food chemical sensitive, but I don't understand why she reacted
to something new (chickpeas) after we'd been on Failsafe for a few months.

I just don't see how food allergies/intolerances can be genetic since
they were pretty much unheard of just a few generations ago. I am
sensitive to amines, not sure about salicylates. I didn't react
during the challenge but my reactions tend to take a long time to show
up (except the chocolate reaction) so I'll probably have to do an
extended challenge to know for sure, and that won't happen until DD is
weaned.


Valerie