Symptoms in infants???

[raelara]

I am convinced that I have celiac disease and am now wondering if my 10 1/2 month old daughter could have it as well. I plan on mentioning it to her pediatrician at her 12 month check up which has already been scheduled but am curious about the symptoms in babies and young children. She has always been very gassy and is rather thin for her age, although not thin enough to worry the doctors. She has moments when she is extremely fussy and nothing seems to help. She is also at high risk for autism which, some say, makes you at high risk for gluten issues as well. I would appreciate any information anyone could give me on what to look for in her.

Thanks in advance.
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Jenni Sherriff
Mommy to Ayanna - 5/26/05
Aspie, PCOS, and Suspected CD

[duchessisa]

My daughter showed symptoms at 3 months. I took her the doctor for a variety of things including: bloody stool, blood in diaper with urine, Thrush, yeast infection, colic, and severe diaper rash. The thrush would come and go but the yeast infections were terrible and she is allergic to niastatin (the prefered med.) She was at the 110 percent on the hieght chart and the 70 on wieght. Thin but not unhealthy. She was four by the time she was diagnosed and only because I really pushed. Juleah's nick name as a baby was thunder butt. Our last name is German and rhymes with "rotten farter" that was her next nick name. It is gross but acurate. She started displaying signs of tummy discomfort which became so bad it woke her from sleep crying. had no idea what was going on with her and had no idea all her health issues were connected. You live with some one so intimately every day and you become accepting of 'thier normal' as simply normal. I didn't realize how ABnormal her stool was, or how it was ABnormal for a child to eat so little so often and always complain she was hungry, I didn't realize how ABnormal it was for a three year old to have dark circles under her eyes, and I thought she might have a little ADD trouble which isn't that unheard of. A few months on the Gluten free diet and she was so different. She ate three meals and a few snacks everyday, she no longer had attention problems, her poop sank and had form, and what hit me most was looking at a picture of her and realizing how dark those little eyes had been. She looked glazed and had serious dark rings around her eyes in every photo. She also went from wearing a size 3 to a size 5 in no time, really it was maybe three months. Her bloated belly went away and real body mass took it's place. She is still much to tall for her wieght but that is genetics, she is healthy now.