It describes what has happened with all of our babies and really explains why just changing the diet doesn't work. We definitely are experiencing the imbalance in the gut. We don't break down the complex carbs well. It was so encouraging and such an answer to prayer. Now we just need to kill the nasty stuff and get some good stuff in there.
Yes, my DS was "allergic" to rice cereal as his first food. And oatmeal too.
Only it wasn't an allergy... it was an intestinal flora imbalance.
Babes cannot produce adequate amylase enzymes in saliva to start breaking down complex carbs (disaccharides) in their mouth until most of their teeth are in... well into their second year. If food is not digested fully, it is very hard on the gut and the intestinal flora in particular. It ferments and feeds the bad bacteria.
This caused a yeast overgrowth. Massive diaper rash from hell. Full body eczema appeared. I still was thinking "allergy" at that point because that is automatically how everyone thinks, and never made the real connection to gut flora until much later.
If I had to do it all over again, grains would be the very absolute last things I introduce. Well into second year.
(Also formula fed or formula supplemented babes' guts are stressed for this reason too. Formula is never fully digested in newborns which is why their poop smells so horrible and BF babes poop smells like yogurt. FF and FSupplemented babes have radically different intestinal flora than EBF babes. FF babes never get a chance to close up the intestinal lining like EBF babes do, it remains leaky. Thus probably increasing chance of the immune system reacting to foreign food molecules that are not supposed to be in the bloodstream. I think this is the cause of many true food allergies.)
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