Dh commented yesterday that eating bread is making him feel bloated and a bit sick to his stomach. The same applies to baked treats (cupcakes, etc). Is this a gluten sensitivity? He ate his sandwich in a pita-wrap thing last night and said that was fine.
Pita would probably still contain gluten, as it's usually made from wheat flour. I would look into doing a severely restricted diet with him then add foods back in one ingredient at a time. Also, check out the GAPS diet for the same basic idea. Alternatively, you could simply write a list of ingredients contained in each food that makes him sick, eliminate commonalities between those and foods that don't make him sick, and see if you can pinpoint the culprit. This may require keeping a food reaction journal for a couple of weeks.
Watch the bloating it can also be a symptom of gall bladder. I started with the bloating and it worked its way up over the last year to full on attacks.
Another idea is preservatives in the food. I started out a few years ago with what Dr said was an intolerance to wheat with bloating and getting nauseated when I ate pasta, bread, etc. Over time and culminating to allergic reaction this year, it turns out I am not allergic to wheat but to the preservatives in prepared foods. Since I've switched to preservative free bread (and other organic wheat products) I have had no issues whatsoever. Maybe your husband's pita was all-natural, organic or preservative free and that's why he didn't have a problem? Or maybe he hadn't had any other bread products that day and the amount in the pita was not enough to upset his stomach?
That's sort of what I was thinking with the food journal and ingredients comparison. It's just so hard to guess at these things because most foods have dozens of ingredients these days... most of them chemicals. :roll:
Also, check into a milk allergy. My DS is allergic to milk now... you'll be amazed what all milk can and won't be in. Hope he gets it figured out soon!
I've also found that a problem can lie in how a certain ingredient is processed before it reaches the product you're eating. For example, lemon juice. If a product has lemon juice listed it's almost always from concentrate and concentrated juice has sulfites in it to preserve color and/or flavor. So now the product that you thought was safe from preservatives has the possibility of causing you a reaction. The food journal is really the best place to start. In fact, the Dr will ask you to do one. Might as well get a jump on it before you go in. Then the Dr has something to look at.
If the pita wrap didn't irritate him then you should look into it being the yeast. While it could really be a number of things, even after bread is cooked, yeast can still be hard on the intestines. If I eat too much homemade bread in a day, I get very gassy.
