Does anyone have any idea what is going on with this child?

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Hi! I'm new to the group and I hope to learn a lot here. I am

starting school in the fall to be a natropath/holistic nutritionist.

 

I have a 14 month old boy who has some mysterious digestive

condition. We have been to doctor after doctor and had test after

test done and nobody seems to know what is going on.

 

When he was 2 weeks old, we took him to the ER due to having bloody

diarrhea. After an x-ray for suspected obstruction or

intesussecption (which was negative on both accounts, they told me

to stop nursing (Huge mistake in retrospect!) and put him on

nutramigen (a formula that has partially broken down proteins). He

did not imporve on Nutramigen and after many x-rays, blood and stool

tests (only positive tests were for blood in stool on 4 different

occasions), they put him on Neocate (a formula where the proteins

are broken down to amino acids). He did improve on Neocate and we

were good until he was 4 months (when I tried to start him on rice

cereal). Again, he got stringy, mucousy, diarrhea that progressed

to bloody. We backed off and tried again in a month - again, same

results. We were referred to a Ped GI doctor who ran a battery of

tests (most of the duplicate of ones previously ran - the only

abnormal result was an IgE which was a little elevated) The

doctors' office said they " lost " the results and said they would

call me with the plan going forward. They never called me and

wouldn't return my phone calls - so I was left to fend for myself.

 

Finally, in the shower one morning, I had an idea of using digestive

enzymes on him. So, that day I started and after a week or so on

the enzymes, I tried him on rice cereal. Nothing happened so we

progressed with one new food per week. Still nothing happened.

 

We were finally able to have him on soy formula and he did really

well until about a couple weeks ago. My 3.5 year old son is

autistic and we started the gluten-free/casein free/soy-free/corn-

free diet for him about two weeks ago. We also started up

supplements (No-Phenol enzymes, grapefruit seed extract for yeast,

digestive enzymes - this is not a change from his previous routine,

glutathione, and vitamin C) This regimen except to grapefruit seed

extract and No-Phenol were recommended by our natropath.

 

However, now he's got this very volumnous, yellow, nasty diarrhea

(sorry for the graphic nature). He has it 3-4 times a day and it

clearly coincides with starting the new diet, but I don't know why

and I don't know what to do to help him. We also never figured out

what his underlying issue was and that constantly bugs me.

 

Does anyone have any ideas about what is going on? I'm starting to

think we need to return to the natropath.