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I just realized I forgot to share that we had to seek help for sleep issues after Tootsie was healed from SIBO/SIFO last year. A symptom that would always come up during a flare was sleep disturbances - restless legs, waking in the night, difficulty falling asleep, a fear of sleeping in her own room (a generalized feeling of anxiety). All the other symptoms of SIBO/SIFO were gone, but the sleep issues were lingering. We were able to get into the sleep clinic at Seattle Children's where we saw a wonderful doctor that said the symptoms sounded like a deficiency in iron storage. She requested a blood draw and called us a few days later with results showing Tootsie's ferritin level was low. We started her on an iron supplement and in less than a week she was falling asleep easily in her own room and sleeping peacefully the whole night through!