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Question Our daughter just turned 10 months of age. She looks and acts extremely healthy, is happy, active, etc. However, recently she has been losing weight at an alarming rate. She went from being 80th percentile for her weight to 50th three months later, and in just the last four days has dropped from 18 pounds 2 ounces to 17 pounds 12 ounces. We have an appointment with her doctor on Monday, but I would like to be prepared for what might be coming. Her father does have some allergies to fruit, but we have been trying to be careful while introducing new foods. Any thoughts on what might be the problem?
Answer a lot of possibilities starting from diet, enzymes problem, allergy, malabsorption to worst as tumor.
it is hard to say at this point without further investigation and physical exam, but I think that is more diet problem and intolerance .
Food allergy is the name given to a variety of situations in which specific foods provoke some type of over-zealous immune response, which produces symptoms.
Because the developing immune system is quite complex and has mechanisms to protect us from what we swallow, food allergies are also complex, and can result from a variety of different mechanisms and cause a variety of symptoms.
Celiac disease is an immune response to gluten – proteins found in wheat and other grains.
Lactose intolerance is not a food allergy. A missing enzyme makes milk difficult to digest, creating gas and loose stools. And the flushed cheeks that some children get when eating citrus or tomatoes are not usually an allergy.
but the best way to know is your doc visit.
thanks
dan
