Re: having problems--------some thoughts.......to get ready to attend school

[Guest guest]

Caroline;

I do SCD and environmental controls for my UC and am off meds and

doing well in a controlled environment.

Perhaps have him try going fragrance free and see if that does not

help some....I was able to turn the running down to 1-2 BM a day just

by switching everything to fragrance free. I am not kidding though it

might seem that I am. Paraffin candles still send me running to the

loo. Start by removing paraffin candles completely and isolating them

in another location. Switch the dish soaps first since they touch our

plates and get into the food........there is a ton of bleach in the

commercial dish soaps. Next is the laundry soaps. Everyone is

different but a lot of people can use the seventh generation brand (I

can not since it is coconut based. Then switch the shampoos and

personal products. After switching him, he will know if it is helping

enough to switch out the entire family. This is how our family ended

up totally fragrance free at this time and I am doing marvelously

well. (I also had to treat some pollen/dust allergies).

Before going fragrance free I could never attend my continuing

education classes but since I can.......since there will be fragrance

in the classroom, it is important to have a safe place to return to in

the place that he is living. Since he is living alone it could work

out.........but he would need a separate laundry facility if that

begins to help since the chemicals in our laundry products are

designed to add fragrance to our entire lives......so we really think

we are smelling fresh laundry clean all the time.

At least for me, these chemicals were the main trigger in addition to

my foods.

The laundry chemicals linger as fragrance in our homes for a very long

time but I noticed quite an improvement at the beginning which kept on

improving as I went more and more fragrance free.

Also look at his most favorite SCD food......the one he could not be

without or feels he could not do SCD without.......that he needs

daily. That one is likely a food that he is sensitive to and should be

eaten no more often than every four days.

I know it is a lot to bite off........but if it could help him get

back into classes and not have to miss so much, I thought it was worth

mentioning.

HTH Michele

UC 6+ years

SCD 3 3/4 years

MCS found as root cause of my UC 2007

no meds and environmental controls 1 year---

--avoided resection and 6mp/Immuran

[Guest guest]

Michele, We're pretty much fragrance free already. My head

explodes with any kind of scent, so I've never used anything with a

scent. My son does have oat tree allergies and had been getting

allergy shots for that, but I heard there were illegals in the

allergy shots, so he's stopped the shots for now. Fortunately it's

no longer oat tree season here.

" I do SCD and environmental controls for my UC and am off meds and

doing well in a controlled environment.

Perhaps have him try going fragrance free and see if that does not

help some.... "

I'm not certain what you mean about being sensitive to his favorite

food and only eating every 4 days. Could you explain please?

" Also look at his most favorite SCD food......the one he could not

be

> without or feels he could not do SCD without.......that he needs

> daily. That one is likely a food that he is sensitive to and

should be

> eaten no more often than every four days. "

Caroline

son w/CD

SCD 5/21

>

[Guest guest]

http://www.food-allergy.org/rotation.html

Here is some info on rotation diet to prevent further food

sensitivities from developing. I eat SCD but had to get rid of

tomatoes, cheese, onions, brocolli, and others.....including

coconut, safflower and sunflower and I eventually have lost almonds

too......

You have to eat that food family once every four days and rotate to

ensure variety.

My allergy shots are just the item and salt and water. However, I

take a shot for oats and oat tree pollen would have the illegal oat

in it by default I think since it has the oat tree pollen. It is the

amount that his body does not react to. My doctor uses preservative

free ones and we have to freeze them.

Tree pollen and molds and dust mites are huge trigger for my

intestinal bleeding. Fragrance and petroleum based products are a

huge trigger for my " d " . I had to stop our dishwasher soap becuase

the bleach in it was harming me. Also, I was sensitive to aluminum

and stainless steel so I had to switch to cast iron cookware because

I was getting the allergens in my food daily.

HTH Michele