: do intro to SCD....Re: My son is unwell and it's so hard to watch

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I read your post and it reminded me of me...when I thought I was

doing everything I could and we were not getting the gains. Stan

said, " Diane, come on...pull peanut butter. You KNOW you have to do

it. " Later, it was the bananas...but oh my baby would never eat

chicken much less a green veggie...Stan was crazy and he just didn't

understand!!!! You have to get really sick and TIRED of the autism to

go down the SCD path....but I looked at your list and i think you

have to do the one thing that you think you cannot and you have not

really tried, full on. I told myself and enyone and everyone that my

son will not eat...my son won;t eat...my son doesn't like...will not

try.... my son would never ever eat chicken bc he gags physically at

the sight of it and the smell sends him running....

That is all he eats now, and FINALLY the good organic stuff...after

almost 2 months of El Pollo Loco EVERY SINGLE DAY....wehen he was

famished of course. " Want a chicken leg, honey " I am not kidding.

After we pulled eveything - EVERYTHING - and he got hungry enough he

started asking for and LOVING apples...it was his first ord -

ahhhhple!!!! We only give granny smith ones. I almost fell over the

other day when he ate the stems, not the trees part of course - off

BROCCOLI. And this from a hunger striker who tantrumed his bum off

crying and screaming and whining on the soup intro to SCD...which he

never really entirely did buy into...we made it through those few

days bc of Stan's spinach, pear and apple juice drink and raw peeled

and cored apples - the sweet ones, not the g smith ones we give

now....

I doubt it destroyed his poor gut flora imbalances as much as it

simply made him HUNGRY enough to go where we needed him to go to beat

this autism and start TALKING....onto a diet of whole foods with no c

carbs, starches, and sugars for the time being. Thank God we

listened to Stan and just rode out the tantrums and stopped listening

to our own stupid limiting beliefs.....your child will eat what he

needs to eat to unfog and heal his brain enough to begin speaking

when you are ready to go there....and you have to be SICK of the

autism and the silence and weird sounds....you just have to dive in

and know that even if he hunger struck for days he would not starve

and you do not have to do the SCD correctly and perfectly in stagesto

get HUGE results from its principles. Stan didn't. We didn't. We

are doing whole foods and nothing that registered on his igg

test....from totally nonverbal four months ago to the beginnings of

language...the Scd legal foods and supps in conjunction with the

strategies in Overcoming Autism got us words and the phrase - " More

chicken, yeah! " If you just cannot go there with the diet thing,

then just try the overcoming autism stuff since they do not even

believe in diet changes and biomed...go there way, all the way, in

that case, and get him talking. Believe that he can and that he

wants you to help him over his obstacles...that was the advice Stan

gave us right before our big push for language gains...and we simply

chose to believe, completely and totally in Matt's recovery. It has

so far made all the difference - believeing and digging in, full on,

for the fods that we know he must eat to progress.....by the way, the

intro stage of SCD not only makes them hungry I think it really does

change their physiology, even if it cannot heal them entirely...my

son really did gag and shudder over chicken pre intro - not so after

it. Good luck.

> > >

> > > He has been on the following since Jan 7th.

He is 2.5 years old.

> > >

> > > GFCF - CF since September '07

> > > Diflucan

> > > Singulair

> > > Glutathione Cream daily

> > > B12 injections every five days, now going to

every 3

> > > Cod Liver Oil

> > > Vitamin A

> > > MultiFlora Spectrum Probiotics

> > > Enzyme Complete DP-IV

> > > Super Nu Thera

> > > Vitamin C - 500 mg per day

> > >

> > > I just look at him and he seems SO MUCH worse

since we started this.

> > I understand the

> > > yeast may be acting up and causing crazy

behavior but he is unhappy,

> > unhealthy looking.

> > > He has dark circles under his very tired

eyes. His stimming and

> > behaviors are just worse

> > > than ever. My husband and I keep looking at

each other and

> > wondering why it's getting

> > > worse when we're suppose to be on the right

track now.

> > >

> > > The past few days he's had white chunks in

his stool. Loser than

> > normal stools, very light

> > > in color, almost like mustard with dark

specs. DAN doc says yeast

> > does NOT come out in

> > > poop ... then what is it?

> > >

> > > He is on a self restricted diet due to

sensory issues and just plain

> > CARB ADDICTION.

> > >

> > > Oh how I wish I could make him better simply

by getting him to eat

> > healthy, nutritious

> > > foods and NO meds. I would love to take a

natural approach but

> > don't have the knowledge

> > > or guts to do it. Tonight at dinner I said to

my husband that I am

> > tempted to serve him

> > > steamed fish, rice and veg every night until

he eats - even if he

> > hunger strikes for a week.

> > > My NT daughter is such a healthy eater,

asking for fish, apples,

> > chick peas, pears, etc.

> > >

> > > I know this post does not really contain any

questions, just venting

> > I guess. I can't believe

> > > that a little boy so beautiful and perfect to

me can be getting

> > worse, slipping more and

> > > more into the world of Autism. He did not use

to be like this. He

> > still has a spark but I am

> > > scared that it is getting dimmer. Everyone

who looks at me comments

> > on how I look

> > > depressed and I just shrug. This is not the

life I envisioned for

> > my children. I tried so

> > > hard to have my kids for years and years. I

went through hell and

> > back to get pregnant

> > > and then to stay pregnant and I just didn't

forsee any of this.

> > >

> > > Thanks for listening. I am just really scared

I am losing my son to

> > Autism.

> > >

> > > gfcfmom

> > >

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