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Hives, Anyone?

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We have been working really hard at being gluten free for a couple of weeks now. My daughter (she will be 6 in July) has been pretty resistent to the new changes, but she does see what happens when she eats something with gluten in it.

She broke out in hives yesterday, and we have been up since 4 am because she started itching in her sleep and it woke her up. I am giving her Benadryl and using Caladryl as well. She is not running a fever, but she started wheezing a bit when she went to bed last night.

Is this a common reaction to getting off the gluten, or trying new gluten-free foods, or just a random occurance? Has anyone had any similar experiences with their children?

Oh, as a side note, I talked to the assistant principal at school on Friday, and she told me that the school district told her that kindergarten doesn't have the same requirement for a specific number of hours as the other grades do. And the bottom line is, my daughter will not be held back for next year! I almost cried with relief when she told me that. She did say though that next year we will have to fill out the papers for the plan 504, but told me again, they don't have many guidelines for dealing with this. Sigh. At least it's a start.

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hi there, does she have hives or DH. i get hives as im allergic to soy, maybe she has some other intolerances now brought on by the celiac, there are some people here that know more about how that happens then i do. but it sounds like allergies to me. i have a special cream made up from my doc that has menthol in it so its cooling at the same time, works well. good luck i know how awful hives can be believe me!!

Teacher1958 Apprentice
Teacher1958
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Hi,

I've been wandering about this for months! I started getting the hives in the fall, shortly before I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. My doctor said that it was part of the fibromyalgia, which didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I think she should have further investigated that symptom. Anyhow, my hives take the form of welts that look like I've been slapped with a leather belt or something. I have only gotten them on my tummy and breasts. I've never seen them anywhere else. I have only gotten them once since going gluten free.

Hope this helps.

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Ursa Major
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Hives are an allergic reaction to something. I get hives when I eat grains with fruit (everywhere, but I shouldn't eat those anyway). Once I got terrible hives from using a lotion that contained oat bran and apple pectin. I had rubbed it all over my arms, and within seconds they felt like they were on fire, and the hives started. Within 15 minutes my arms were bright red and swollen, covered in one huge hive, despite the fact that I tried to wash off the lotion with soap and water within seconds of applying it.

Are you feeding your daughter a lot of replacement foods for the gluteny things she ate before? A lot of those contain soy, tapioca, rice flour............ things you don't necessarily find in your regular bread/cookies/pasta. If she's only had those hives since starting the gluten-free diet, it must be something she is eating now that she didn't eat before.

You might want to keep a food diary. Write down everything she eats, and when she eats it. Then, when she gets hives, you might be able to track the reaction to a specific food she has eaten.

Teacher1958 Apprentice
Teacher1958
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Hives are an allergic reaction to something. I get hives when I eat grains with fruit (everywhere, but I shouldn't eat those anyway). Once I got terrible hives from using a lotion that contained oat bran and apple pectin. I had rubbed it all over my arms, and within seconds they felt like they were on fire, and the hives started. Within 15 minutes my arms were bright red and swollen, covered in one huge hive, despite the fact that I tried to wash off the lotion with soap and water within seconds of applying it.

Are you feeding your daughter a lot of replacement foods for the gluteny things she ate before? A lot of those contain soy, tapioca, rice flour............ things you don't necessarily find in your regular bread/cookies/pasta. If she's only had those hives since starting the gluten-free diet, it must be something she is eating now that she didn't eat before.

You might want to keep a food diary. Write down everything she eats, and when she eats it. Then, when she gets hives, you might be able to track the reaction to a specific food she has eaten.

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You reminded me of the time one of my students gave me a rose milk lotion for Christmas. I had no idea I was allergic to it, so I lathered it all over my body....groan....and I got hives all over my body.

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We have been working really hard at being gluten free for a couple of weeks now. My daughter (she will be 6 in July) has been pretty resistent to the new changes, but she does see what happens when she eats something with gluten in it.

She broke out in hives yesterday, and we have been up since 4 am because she started itching in her sleep and it woke her up. I am giving her Benadryl and using Caladryl as well. She is not running a fever, but she started wheezing a bit when she went to bed last night.

Is this a common reaction to getting off the gluten, or trying new gluten-free foods, or just a random occurance? Has anyone had any similar experiences with their children?

Oh, as a side note, I talked to the assistant principal at school on Friday, and she told me that the school district told her that kindergarten doesn't have the same requirement for a specific number of hours as the other grades do. And the bottom line is, my daughter will not be held back for next year! I almost cried with relief when she told me that. She did say though that next year we will have to fill out the papers for the plan 504, but told me again, they don't have many guidelines for dealing with this. Sigh. At least it's a start.

Natalie

YES I do get them daily also....but still being tested so can't help u much but i do have a suggestion of soemthing to put on them (ppl don't laugh it really works)

I was at my mom-in-laws and she had no Benadryl so she told me to go put some of her Vagicaine Cream on my hives and they stopped itching immed. so maybe try this on ur lil one.

Mybe she got cross tamination some how or lik eothers said something else is making her break out Ima allergic to Lytex too bedides everyting else.

Good luck I hope u find the coulprate :/

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