My area of interest is Natural Health, and when my son began reacting badly to food and drinks "made for children" I began researcing what exactly was in these products the big manufacturers have been spending £££MILLIONS MULTI MILLIONS OF POUNDS on advertising to our children and we the parents with a message that we should "Bring them up" on the their product among others.

We are back to GOS on monday and I am getting myself nicely wound up about it this time. Have usually already got my list of questions done by now but not sure where to begin this time.

The steroids have had little impact. I would say he is complaining of a bit less pain but that has also coincided with him eating less.

Hi, I found out that sainsburys stopped there fish finger as they had been using milk in them No noby knew, so they have taken off the shelf intil they find a way of making with out milk.

Liz

Ben's new backpack arrived today. I'd spoken to the gosh dietiican on friday and she had initally suggested taking Ben off the little solid food he is eating for a while. Said we were reluctant to do that without discussion with his consultant. We compromised with putting him on his feed during the day to try and get some more calories in him.

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My name is Helen. I am 35, married to Paul and have 2 children. Izzy is 4 and Ben is 3.

Izzy was born at full term after interuterine insemmination. She had been a twin pregnancy but we lost her brother or sister at about 12 weeks. That is probably the reason she was classed as IUGR or interuterine growth retarded as she was under 2.5kg

Hi I am Michelle and I am married to Steve we have three children, All of them have Eosinophilic
Entocolitis and our middle son also has eosinophilic oesophagutis accompanied by
Multiple food allergies. The eldest has a reflux of the bowel which means when
he eats he needs to go to the toilet straight away. One of my
children had a N.G tube and he had this from june 05 until feb 06 when he had it replaced with
a peg. In the last 18mths we have been to hell and back not
just with the illness but with medical people and education

My 2 boys seem to be having a relapse.

Our eldest is having tummy aches, has 2 painful mouth ulcers, off his food, is very tired and looks pale.

Our youngest has had loose stools again and is having trouble sleeping - some nights he's thrashing for hours. We are all desperate for some decent sleep! He's still spitting his food a bit too but we've just realised he too has the mouth ulcer problem so maybe he's spitting the food out because it hurts?

As always, I was really excited about Christmas and this year was the first Christmas that the kids haven't been ill! It's been heaven and they've loved it!

Things have been going quite well in terms of their gut symptoms, our youngest hasn't had dairhoea for a few months and our eldest hasn't been complaining of tummy aches every day for a while. Maybe the ketotifen and restricted diet is really working!

Continuing with our look in to food labelling and in particular how manufacturers of food don't always seem to have the consumer (or at least the consumer with allergies) in mind, we continued to press the Foods Standard Agency on a few loose ends that we wanted tied up.

my boys are fighting non stop at the moment - the youngest can be very aggresive and i suspect it's because he is hungry and tired all the time. he hits his brother a lot and really hurts him. not sure what i can do as i can't make him eat properly and can't get him sleeping better.