I need to make a wish list of healing foods for ABA, advise pls....

April 23, 2008

How and WHAT to feed kids...

I am looking into BED, but Matt is an O blood type not an A like many

kids per Gates on the spectrum. We tried the yogurt ala SCD, but I

think casein remains an issues for him at this time. He is igg

sensitive to coconuts and will not even drink the water from them

while still sweet, forget fermented...though if he could have it and

it would heal him we would ABA it into happening.

Well, here we go. We are still in a world of chronic constipation,

despite heroic efforts I still see a white tongue every am when I

get Matt from bed, and his poo is green and smells dreadful. Even

after a movement if we assist him with a fleet enema the equivalent

of three or four bms then comes out poor baby. We also found pin or

round worms in his diaper recently. We have an appointment today to

see what we should do about it...

Having said that there are language gains daily, great eye contact,

and spontaneous attempts at talking to us and making requests etc.

He is SLOWLY making progress, but some days - THIS day - I am so

exhausted and down about the whole process. The ABA therapists have

asked us to make a list of foods we would like Matt to eat and we are

paralyzed...so much info seems to contradict other expert advice-

arrgghh. So what healing foods options are there for a boy who is

GFCF, IGG to pineapples, coconut, cashews, peas and will only eat

chicken and apples right now....though asks for bananas and

strawberries all the time, but I DO NOT KNOW IF I SHOULD ALLOW THESE

or if they will interfere with healing. I give him a few squirts of

bone broth and hope that will give him a wee bit of useable calcium.

He is holding his own for weight at 29 lbs, and though a peanut next

to peers, he is not REALLY small at this time.

He ate green beans for a bit, but that seemed to invite

problems....bloating GI discomfort etc. When I was soaking his

chicken in tumeric and cinnamon his teeth went very yellow even when

brushed and his ears went red. He cannot handle calium supp of any

kind. epsom salt baths do not help him have bms...we are BAFFLED by

our kid!!! If he is an oxalate kid I suppose I must not give supps

that have those high oxalate herbs in them to get the bowels moving?

Help!

So, he may have oxalate issues, he has calcium ones it seems - and I

wish I could claim I understood the oxalate calcium autism link, but

I do not...much less how to feed around those issues...his gut is

leaky, sadly, and his hair often smells like metal.

What can I/should I feed a child of this description...eliminating

has done wonders in our house, but now it is time to start bringing

things in and we are paralyzed. Thanks so much for any support

anyone can offer who has successfully - or is successfully addressing

the gut stuff.....Di

April 23, 2008

I am looking into BED at this time as well. We are currently SCD, but

I just don't believe that this can help the yeast. Not on my

timeline, anyway! I will say, though, that it has helped with his

bacterial issues. we also did vancomycin/flagyl after we started SCD

and I think it was a good combo for us. We have strayed a bit from

SCD by adding the young coconut kefir.

Anyway, looking into BED. For myself, , and my other son who is

NT by most accounts, but with GI probs from infancy. I think there is

a general yeasty theme in our house and I just want to eliminate it.

You were talking about eliminating foods/bringing new ones in and it

reminded me of a youtube presentation I watched the other night with

Donna Gates and Natasha -McBride. It had six parts and was

very informative. I felt like they were talking directly to me and

the problems we are experiencing here. One of them talked briefly

about all the great foods you can add...the yck, cultured veggies,

oils, etc. and it made sense to me. I'm so tired of restricting

further as I go. started gf/cf. further restricted by switching to

scd, which caused oxalate problems. so now we're attempting to be

SCD/LOD while fighting yeast...it's enough to drive anyone CRAZY! So,

I'm adding. I'm started with the yck now moving on to the cultured

veggies.

I'm about to order the BED book. I hate that the whole program seems

like one big marketing project, but if there is worthwhile info, then

it might be worth it.

good luck with it!

Kari

April 23, 2008

Hey...you have MY kid and yeast is a theme in this house too - during

my pregnancy as well. There is a CD set on the site for $99 that I am

thinking of purchasing and I too am getting the book for the exact

same reasons. It may not work for the kids but it is the way to go

for me I think and for my near NT dd who will eat those sorts of

things with the right prompting and bribery. We are also looking

into getting salmon on board from Vital Choice - the co rec by Weil

and Perricone...a little pricy, but if it works worth it. The owner

of the company is LOVELY...I called to inquire about their products

and he called me back personally and asked about my son. He and his

wife started their company with a special heart for pregnant women bc

the bad advice to eat no fish, esp canned alskan wild salmon is

having such terrible consequences....he was very humble on the

subject of autism - did not even know that J McCarthy and Jim C were

a couple or about her son with autism. When we started talking about

brain infammation though he got quite excited. If that is a part of

this disease he siad that he would really like to know how Matt does

on the salmon oil and salmon sausage bc HIS daughter had bacterial

meningitis and was life flighted to the hospital. 9 days in a coma,

terible brain infalmmation, lost all speech and most gross and fine

motor skills....took months to rehabilitate, but NOT years as

predicted....they put the salmon poil right into her IV and put her

on a diet of whole foods, almost exclusively salmon and salmon

products for her protein...just poured the oil into her they said---

and it isn't a high A vitamin substance like CLO...it is just this

powerful brain healing stuff...anyway, neurologists came all the way

to Alaska to see her in the hospital bc apparently nobody could

believe how quickly her brain and her body healed post her illness.

She almost died and her prognosis initailly was very bleak. He told

me he did not know why it helped her as much as it did, he is no

doctor, but he said to please keep him posted and let him know if I

see the same turn around in Matt on the oils. He would not let me

order anything up front, he told me to just let him send me different

things so I could see what Matt would eat willingly, if any of it

before I spent any money. He also sent some oil. Fantastic

company...deserving of all the good things people say abpout it. So

we are doing the salmon oil soon, fermented CLO, skate oil 1 pr 2x a

week for all the little broken caps in Matt's cheeks...as this oil is

full of all the Ks, known and yet undiscovered it seems.

Let me know how it goes with the YCK. I just do not know HOW I am

going to get that stuff into Matt...ABA stuff I suppose. I wonder

what order intro ed things.....Diane In

mb12 valtrex , " karicreehan " wrote:

>

> I am looking into BED at this time as well. We are currently SCD,

but

> I just don't believe that this can help the yeast. Not on my

> timeline, anyway! I will say, though, that it has helped with his

> bacterial issues. we also did vancomycin/flagyl after we started

SCD

> and I think it was a good combo for us. We have strayed a bit from

> SCD by adding the young coconut kefir.

>

> Anyway, looking into BED. For myself, , and my other son who is

> NT by most accounts, but with GI probs from infancy. I think there

is

> a general yeasty theme in our house and I just want to eliminate

it.

>

> You were talking about eliminating foods/bringing new ones in and it

> reminded me of a youtube presentation I watched the other night with

> Donna Gates and Natasha -McBride. It had six parts and was

> very informative. I felt like they were talking directly to me and

> the problems we are experiencing here. One of them talked briefly

> about all the great foods you can add...the yck, cultured veggies,

> oils, etc. and it made sense to me. I'm so tired of restricting

> further as I go. started gf/cf. further restricted by switching to

> scd, which caused oxalate problems. so now we're attempting to be

> SCD/LOD while fighting yeast...it's enough to drive anyone CRAZY!

So,

> I'm adding. I'm started with the yck now moving on to the cultured

> veggies.

>

> I'm about to order the BED book. I hate that the whole program

seems

> like one big marketing project, but if there is worthwhile info,

then

> it might be worth it.

>

> good luck with it!

>

> Kari

>

April 23, 2008

When you say” all the broken caps”

in your son’s cheeks – what does this mean? My little guy, who is

3, also has some red “spider” looking veins in one of his face

cheeks. What does this mean?

" Three

grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to

love, and something to hope for... "

From: mb12 valtrex [mailto:mb12 valtrex ] On Behalf Of diatplay

Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

11:08 PM

To: mb12 valtrex

Subject: Re: I need

to make a wish list of healing foods for ABA,

advise pls....

Hey...you have MY kid and yeast is a theme in this

house too - during