Our Diagnosis
E ....(I choose to keep her name private for now So I will call her "E") ....E....ever since I can remember, has always had issues with gas. Thinking back, when she was a newborn I had such a hard time with her because she was very fussy and was always making her little grunting noises. It was almost as if she had gas and couldn't pass it. Of course, we all believed she had the usual infants colic. However, now that I look back I can see how she may have had lactose intolerance since birth perhaps. As for the fructose malabsorption, I can only speculate that she had it at birth as well or just developed it as she grew. It is of course her stomach's inability to break down a specific kind of sugar (fructose) and I believe lactose is a type of sugar. So just understanding that part of her diagnosis, I can kinda of see that maybe she was just born with this condition. I had also breastfed E for the entire 2 years of her infancy and into toddlerhood and cut out dairy...