We have been trying gluten-containing foods for a week now, and we have noticed a hugely negative response from Miracle Girl. She is so self-absorbed that she ignores us most of the time, she can’t help but blurt out anything that pops into her head (even when someone else is already talking to her), and she is vastly more emotional. She says her tummy hurts every day, again. It is a big regression to a place we have rarely been to this degree in recent months.
Charming Boy is a bit more emotional, but it could just be a side-product of seeing his sister upset so much.
As hard as it is to keep to the gluten-free diet with kids (and expensive, to boot), dealing with her anti-social and downright rude behavior is just too hard on our family. When she is off gluten, she recognizes her poor choices and at least actively tries to regular her emotionality. On gluten, it’s unbearable to see how far away she is from reality and how she is utterly unable to stop herself. It’s like we’re all on a never-ending roller coaster ride to hell.
Sounds like the gluten-free diet is worth the trouble after all! 
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One thing I said in my last post was that I believed IgG allergy reactions were the anaphalactic kind, and I was WRONG. Our pediatrician told me that the kind of reactions that our kids have to trigger foods are IgE mediated, and that those are the kind that can turn into life-threatening reactions.
But, she also said that the skin rash Charming Boy sprouts withing a day or two of consuming egg is okay, and she’s okay with him continuing to consume egg unless we see something else come up. Either he will outgrow it, or given his history of food sensitivities, he might develop other more typical allergy symptoms, like asthma or seasonal allergies.
Oh, that’s just great.
Once things normalize after removing gluten (again), we are going to do a dairy trial next. I am hoping that Charming Boy will be able to tolerate at least cheese and yogurt now, but don’t really have any facts to bolster that hope. He’s been horribly sensitive to it since he was born, so… we’ll see.
