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My 8 yr old has had a rash of episodes of stomach pains.
No change in diet, no change in stress level. She has mild fever.
Now I think this is just one of those things that kids get when growing up...probably a bug that the gut is having a battle with. But I wonder.....can anything be done to help. She has had three attacks in a month.
Tried probiotics and I think it made it a little worse.
Hi dose Vitc seemed to help.
What do you folks think these tummy aches really are.....
Her diet is excellent...no sugar etc.but she has always been a little pale and weak. Never really eats much. She is however bright and cheery so its not really a mental thing.....her tummy was really hot today.
In Reply to: Stomach Pains in kids. posted by Paulc [8100.1617] on January 15, 2007 at 16:02:26:
could be a food intolerance.These can develop at any time in life, usually in response to a virus. My son's stomach started hurting at one point and we eventually realized he had developed a gluten intolerance. Getting him off wheat,oats, rye, barley, and barley malt helped. He now uses brown rice, corn tortillas, homemade cornbread, and quinoa as his grains. The snack bar he uses is date-based instead of grain-based.
Gluten intolerance is called celiac disease and results in poor uptake of nutrients because gluten flattens out the villi of the intestines in people with this problem, keeping them from sucking up all the nutrients from their food. This would be one reason for the pale and weak thing.
In Reply to: Stomach Pains in kids. posted by Paulc [8100.1617] on January 15, 2007 at 16:02:26:
a hot tummy sounds like infection. I'd try a little cayenne.
In Reply to: Re: Stomach Pains in kids. posted by ANN [1003.516] on January 15, 2007 at 16:18:52:
kids usually mean abdomen when they say tummy. This could include constipation (if she eats little, it takes longer to work it's way through), chronic appendicitis (as opposed to acute, since there have been three separate incidents)- if she has pain on her right side along with the fever), and, 8 year old white girls are starting puberty these days- she could be having pain in her ovaries(one or both).
It would be smart to rule out type 1 diabetes-this is the type that does NOT run in families-kids are getting it whose families have never had it before.
About paleness- this can involve a shortage of iron--diets high in whole grains can inhibit iron absorption.
In Reply to: other thoughts posted by ANN [1003.516] on January 15, 2007 at 17:42:09:
Yes....she is iron deficient. She pretty well refuses to eat meat.....perhaps she is an upcoming vegetarian.
She is mildly ADHD....so the taste and texture of meat bothers her. Very common in this type of mental behaviour
but of course contributes to all sorts of bad stuff when
it comes to proper nutrition.
In Reply to: Re: other thoughts posted by Paulc [8100.1617] on January 15, 2007 at 18:15:17:
does she eat eggs? If not, make sure she is getting B-12-it helps iron absorption. Twinlab makes a tiny , good tasting B-12 tab. Schiff has a chelated women's iron tab that is the easiest to swallow pill I've ever seen. Spinach has iron. Make sure the kid has lots of nuts, seeds, and beans available (Mexican food is a nice way to accomodate vegetarians while making a family meal- asian food, too, has lots of veg possibilities)
In Reply to: Stomach Pains in kids. posted by Paulc [8100.1617] on January 15, 2007 at 16:02:26:
PaulC,
Many children this age are still "hard wired" between their resiratory tract and their GI tract. In other words ANY upset of the respiratory tract frequently has a symptthetic concommitant mirroring of symptoms in the GI tract.
Hope this helps.
Walt
In Reply to: Stomach Pains in kids. posted by Paulc [8100.1617] on January 15, 2007 at 16:02:26:
PaulC,
Many children this age are still "hard wired" between their resiratory tract and their GI tract. In other words ANY upset of the respiratory tract frequently has a sympathetic concommitant mirroring of symptoms in the GI tract.
Hope this helps.
Walt
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