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RAD
Lactose Intolerance
Learning Disabilities
Autism
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Bellyaches aren't any fun. Sometimes 2 to 3 times a day my Angel would be at
the School Nurse, always the same thing. This isn't a kid who eats a lot of
sweets and candy so it never made any sense to me. I was making her school
lunch, so I knew what she had to eat, yet something wasn't making sense.
This kid has gorgeous blue eyes, was getting enough sleep and loves her
vegetables. Yet, she had these circles under her eyes that were to say the
least strange. Imagine overlaying pink and blue. After a few visits to the
friendly pediatrician it was war. He took fats, dairy, salt - it seemed
everything out of her diet. At first I panicked, what do I feed her.
Naturally, I was positive she would starve to death.
Little by little we zeroed in on lactose intolerance. She was having trouble
digesting dairy products. The milk I had her drinking and cheese she loved
was causing the pain.
I feel like a pioneer! Again, not much information or availability of
products. Common sense has to kick in, she and I learned how to read cereal
boxes and prepared food mixes looking for key words such as lactose and whey.
It was a done deal when that became her job, she would go choose her cereal,
bring it back and say this one is good for me. Lactose free milk was harder
to find then, now it's all over the place.
She was taught young, and handles her diet like a little trooper. Her doctor
knows she cheats every once in a while and says she wouldn't be a kid if she
didn't. We keep the lactose pills on hand for those times.
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