Pondering the Gluten Allergy Test

Good Morning.
I was just thinking.... going over the last couple of weeks. Going over the changes I imagined in my daughter when she isn't eating wheat products... and I just can't wrap my brain around it.

On the one hand:
I think she seems like a much sweeter child, less sullen and less prone to fly off the handle when I say, "no" to something.
I think, she has more patience, and is more thoughful.
I think, she has less gas (sorry about that, but it's true)
I think, she doesn't come up to me as often saying, "I'm bored, what is there to do" but instead entertains herself better or finds things to do...
I think, she is less lazy (well, I'm calling it lazy, but I think it's more like she is MORE motivated.. not just less lazy, she seems to have more desire to so things)

On the other hand:
It's freaking hard to find things that they will all eat that doesn't have wheat or gluten.
These are kids that are NOT prone to experimenting with their food... and they base EVERYTHING on what it looks like... NOT what it tastes like.


The end analysis is....... on the one hand --
I think that I see improvement in my oldest daughter
(not so much in the younger ones... although, I think I notice when they have eaten other foods because they eat the other stuff every sunday with their father)

and on the other hand
It's HARD and Expensive to maintain this lifestyle.

--I'm thinking about the test--
Not the celiac check-out-the-lower-intestines test-- but the less invasive test at the allergist. I have read that the test can come back negative and the child can still have a sensitivity...

Why the test: I guess, I am hoping that if she is positive I can say to her father: Look. You have to stop poisoning your daughter.

Then I think.... will that work? She has asthma, and he still smokes in the car.

Well, that's all for another day.

have a great one!