Re: Boston Lettuce

[Guest guest]

My son has been on the diet since January 2002. We are using Iceberg lettuce

only. Back when we started the diet the one time we ran out of Iceberg and

we used Romaine lettuce . Our son started having seizures and the Romaine

lettuce was the only thing we could attribute it to. Iceberg lettuce is

mainly water but other lettuces, such as Romaine, have many more nutrients in

them and could throw off the diet.

Our dietitician at Hopkins has strictly told us to use only Iceberg. Our son

has gone 5 months without any seizures. We currently (very slowly) weaned

him off of phenobarbital and he is currently only on a small dose of Topamax.

We follow the diet to the tee because he was having hundreds of seizures a

day. This diet is our saving grace.

[Guest guest]

> Has anyone heard of this? I had bought it but there isn't anything

on it saying the carbs, fat or protein. Do I consider it as regular

lettuce? It's just that it's leaves are the perfect size to put a

hot dog in there and wrap it up. I think lettuce is lettuce, right?

> Halina

> We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in

which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which

we think we cannot

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Has anyone heard of this? I had bought it but there isn't anything

on it saying the carbs, fat or protein. Do I consider it as regular

lettuce? It's just that it's leaves are the perfect size to put a

hot dog in there and wrap it up. I think lettuce is lettuce, right?

> Halina

> We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in

which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which

we think we cannot

>

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