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We’ve seen great improvement in Mr. Charm since going fructose free. He’s much better behaved, and his verbal development is speeding up. Now, it seems, he wants to communicate verbally, whereas before he was content with using his few words combined with gestures to get his points across.
We’ve also seen improvement in his poop. But…not enough to make me really happy. In fact, I was starting to think there was something more wrong with him that we had missed.
So I sat down to talk it over with the Geek, and in our discussion we realized that the ONLY undigested food we are now seeing in Mr. Charm’s diapers is potato peels.
Hmm. We eat a lot of potatos. About two months ago I decided that life would be easier on me if I didn’t peel all those potatos, so we’ve been eating LOTS of potato peels.
So I googled “Are potato peels hard to digest?” and the very first link that came up said yes. It also pointed out that potato peels are high in fiber. I remember reading on a FructMal message board that people with FM often have difficulty with high fiber foods.
Do we have an answer? Could it be that easy?
So, I have now taken on the labor-increased task of peeling the gigantic piles of potatos we eat, so we can see if his diapers are as clean and clear of undigested food as we think they are…once they aren’t chock full of potato peels!
And IF they are nice, fully digested poops, then I will have as clear an answer as I will ever get to confirm a diagnosis of Fructose Malabsorption in Mr. Charm.
If I were in Vegas, I’d lay my odds on some gorgeous poop in Mr. Charm’s future.
Fellow FPIES/FAM/FM Mama’s, did you EVER think you’d spend so much time thinking and talking about poop in your life?
