Matthew's Appointment at Mayo

Yesterday, was the day. Matthew went to Mayo for a second opinion on all of his food issues. We saw a wonderful Dr. and she spent lots of time with me understanding his history and explaining where she thinks we need to go and why. I was very impressed with her knowledge. Our GI, here in the cities is doing the right things and looking at the right things but has not been very helpful in moving forward. We now have a PLAN. That is a huge blessing to me.

So where do we go from here. Well, we know that Matthew has reacted to a many different foods in the past so we will avoid those foods for the foreseable future. They are milk, eggs, wheat, soy, tomato, apple, strawberries, and oats. At this point he is safely eating rice, bananna, brocolli, potatoe, pork and sunflower oil. Every seven days we can add in one new ingredient to his diet. This week he gets to trial carrots. As long as he is tolerating his new food we will continue to move forward. We are going to try to add 4 new vegtables (not sure we can find 4 that we will eat but we will try), 1 new protien source (chicken or turkey), 1 new grain (quinoa) and then we will try to add some more fruit. We will most likely trial tapioca and some seasonings along the way to make cooking easier. His GI at Mayo said to expect to be trialing foods for at least one year most likely more. This will be a long process but in the end we will know which foods are safe for Matthew to eat. Way, way down the road I hope to have enough foods that we can safely talk about removing his formula but for now and the foreseable future, he needs to drink his formula to make sure that he is getting proper nutrition. I am so thankful that there is a formula for him to drink that is safe for him.