Jamie is getting tummyaches again. I’m sure he is not getting any gluten (and if he is occasionally getting cross contaminated, it can’t be this regularly). His last blood tests showed he wasn’t getting regular gluten.
So why he tummyaches? They are short but very sharp, and he’s getting them three or four times a week. It is a worry. Is it connected with the celiac disease? Or totally unrelated?
First thing I’m doing is checking his diet thoroughly by keeping a food diary. I am recording everything he eats in the course of a day as well as when the tummyaches are occuring and how bad they are (Jamie tends to rate them on a scale of 1-10 which is really useful).
Aswell as being able to say for definite that he is not getting gluten in his diet, I can also see that he is not getting enough fruit and veg – averaging 3 portions a day – so I have increased that but it seemed to make no difference. It lso shows that the tummyaches are coming at completely random times during the day although they often occur after a big meal.
Of course I have made an appointment to see Jamie’s paediatrician, and the food diary should be really useful there.
Apart from that I can only cuddle him and pray. And experience that Mummy-feeling we all get when our child is in pain: ‘I wish I could hurt instead of you.’
