Sounds a lot like my daughter but she is now 37 and although she still has GI issues they are not nearly as bad as when she was a preschooler. By skin tests do you mean allergy tests?? My daughter had those too and they were moderately helpful--showed us not to feed her chicken or eggs or milk products. I had already figured that out on my own. Basically the list of food she could tolerate was very short and we lived in the backwoods of NC where Whole Foods was not even heard of--I got the local grocery to special order me rice and barley flour. The rice flour worked for biscuits but the barley didn't. She had ingredible stomach upsets with both vomiting and D from lots of things she ate. Preschool was hard because I had to stress that she could only eat certain things. Her standby foods were rice krispies, soy milk (no rice milk available there at that time), applesauce, plain boiled potatoes, rice, very small amounts of baked or poached veal or lamb, rice flour biscuits (more like cookies but with only a little sugar). She was incredibly small--only 35 pounds at age 5. She is still relatively small but within normal ranges. Her diet is not as limited but she still has severe reactions to all milk products, citrus fruits, chocolate, tomatoes, eggs, etc. I was lucky to have had a very caring pediatrician who took her problems to heart and worked hard to help me figure out how to deal with her diet. I can't say that we ever truly succeeded but she had more good days than bad and she did grow into a wonderful young woman. My heart goes out to you. Keeping the food diary and drastically limiting food is the only answer if his problems are diet related (which they seem to be).
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