Posted by admin | Posted in Mommyhood, hypotonia | Posted on 02-05-2010
Tags: gluten, hypotonia, physical therapy
Ok, I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer or be ungrateful for all of the wonderful things that Luke has accomplished, but I still feel like there is an answer somewhere.
I have been very frustrated the past week or so with his constipation issues. I thought since he is now walking and much more active, the issues would get better. This doesn’t seem to be the case. I really don’t like the idea of using Miralax as a long-term fix for this either.
One of my friends suggested I look into a gluten-free diet. From what I had read about this in the past, I thought that a symptom was more along the lines of diarrhea, but now I am reading that in children, a symptom can be constipation.
I did a Google search for gluten+hypotonia and I came across another mommy’s blog: http://whattofeedyourkids.blogspot.com/. There was a post from March 2009 about Hypotonia and Gluten. I’m really starting to wonder now if this could be Luke’s problem too?
Our PT mentioned to me last week that she is seeing an increasing number of kids with hypotonia coming in for therapy. There has to be something going on that we and doctors aren’t recognizing, whether it’s environmental, diet etc.
If anyone else out there has any experience with hypotonia and gluten intolerance, please drop me a note!! I’m also curious to know how you go about ridding your entire house of wheat and other gluten products. Everything has wheat in it these days!! Maybe that is the problem!!
