Jake is my third child. My baby. When we started solids a month ago, I assumed he'd be like the other two. I was wrong. It started one evening after a meal of oatmeal with avacodo mixed in. We thought he had a stomach bug. He vomitted for two hours straight, became very lethargic and listless, then fell asleep. After a call to the pediatrician, we decided to let him sleep rather than take him to the ER. He woke up like nothing happened, hungry and happy. The next incident was a few days later with rice cereal mixed with bananas. Same reaction. I thought maybe he still had this "stomach bug". A few days later I started over with just rice cereal. I thought I better stick with the three day wait rule. He ate a little rice cereal (later in the evening) and went to bed. A few hours later he was crying, lying face down in vomit. Never again will he eat before bed. Mommy GUILT. This is when I searched the internet for some answers. The only thing I could find was a rare condition called FPIES. Does he have it? I don't know. I'm not a doctor. We've had two more reactions since then. Once to just bananas. The last reaction was to 1 teaspoon of rice cereal. Our pediatrician had us feed him only breastmilk for four days. After the four days, we gave him rice cereal. My hubs and I knew what would happen. And it did. Again.
Something's not right with my little guy's tummy. The pediatrician has done a full allergy panel that came back all negative. He has NO FOOD ALLERGIES, according to his blood. So what is it? We have an appointment with a GI doctor next week. Hopefully we get some answers.
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