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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 352103" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A lot of manufacturers are putting on the cop-out phrase "This product may contain traces of nuts" or whatever, to cover themselves in the event someone has an anaphylactic reaction. A nut allergy is generally very nasty. But the label is often used idiotically. I've seen a packet of peanuts with the label "warning - product may contain nuts".</p><p></p><p>Unless you're concerned that your child is really, really badly sensitive, I would check the ingredients labels only and not worry about "this may contain..." elsewhere on the label.</p><p></p><p>The site I sent you to, gave us some books (designed for Australia) which listed brands to aim for, and brands to avoid, based on information they had obtained form manufacturers. The booklets were little more than computer printouts so they were constantly being updated. If you haven't got anything like that in Italy, you may have to make your own enquiries.</p><p></p><p>A serious suggestion - you could try sending an email to the clinic on that website asking if they know of anyone you could approach in Italy, who could help you with this dietary information. I know these people go to international conferences at times.</p><p></p><p>He sounds like he is also really committed to doing well. See if you can involve him in reading labels too. I found it helped difficult child 3 feel some ownership of his own medical management. Even though we've moved way beyond this, he still checks labels all the time. Also, independently of all this, he and I each have a food colouring allergy (different colour for each of us) so we also check labels for that.</p><p></p><p>If the tests indicate an allergy that you can't actually produce in reality, it shows a limitation of the testing methods. The most valuable information will come from your diary. If after 3 weeks you're not seeing any change, then there are several possibilities:</p><p></p><p>1) You need to try it for longer. We were told 6 weeks or more, but we also were told to expect some improvement after 2 weeks.</p><p></p><p>2) You may still have something included which is also causing problems, so eliminating X while keeping Y, both causing the same problem, will seem to give you no difference.</p><p></p><p>3) Your child may not have behavioural improvement from dietary modification. As we were told - only about 30% of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids are able to be helped this way.</p><p></p><p>All you can do, is what you are already doing - trying to find out. It is slow, it is tedious. But if you do it properly, you gain valuable information (even if the information is, "it's not applicable to us").</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 352103, member: 1991"] A lot of manufacturers are putting on the cop-out phrase "This product may contain traces of nuts" or whatever, to cover themselves in the event someone has an anaphylactic reaction. A nut allergy is generally very nasty. But the label is often used idiotically. I've seen a packet of peanuts with the label "warning - product may contain nuts". Unless you're concerned that your child is really, really badly sensitive, I would check the ingredients labels only and not worry about "this may contain..." elsewhere on the label. The site I sent you to, gave us some books (designed for Australia) which listed brands to aim for, and brands to avoid, based on information they had obtained form manufacturers. The booklets were little more than computer printouts so they were constantly being updated. If you haven't got anything like that in Italy, you may have to make your own enquiries. A serious suggestion - you could try sending an email to the clinic on that website asking if they know of anyone you could approach in Italy, who could help you with this dietary information. I know these people go to international conferences at times. He sounds like he is also really committed to doing well. See if you can involve him in reading labels too. I found it helped difficult child 3 feel some ownership of his own medical management. Even though we've moved way beyond this, he still checks labels all the time. Also, independently of all this, he and I each have a food colouring allergy (different colour for each of us) so we also check labels for that. If the tests indicate an allergy that you can't actually produce in reality, it shows a limitation of the testing methods. The most valuable information will come from your diary. If after 3 weeks you're not seeing any change, then there are several possibilities: 1) You need to try it for longer. We were told 6 weeks or more, but we also were told to expect some improvement after 2 weeks. 2) You may still have something included which is also causing problems, so eliminating X while keeping Y, both causing the same problem, will seem to give you no difference. 3) Your child may not have behavioural improvement from dietary modification. As we were told - only about 30% of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids are able to be helped this way. All you can do, is what you are already doing - trying to find out. It is slow, it is tedious. But if you do it properly, you gain valuable information (even if the information is, "it's not applicable to us"). Marg [/QUOTE]
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