Response to Elaine & Jenn & about yeast

[Guest guest]

Elaine: My daughter has spoken many words in her life, but doesn't speak in any

regular fashion at 13 years old, so we consider her non-verbal. We believe the

deteriation of her ability to speak definitely correlates with her GI situation

becoming more and more severe over the years (i.e. toxins in her brain from her

gut that we weren't aware of either damaged her brain, or hindered her ability

to learn when there were windows of opportunity. We hope the damage is

reversible now that we feel she is healing up with SCD.)

At 5 years old, my daughter infrequently used photos of actual objects, people

and places to make requests and " engage in conversation. " Picture Exchange, as

it's done traditionally in classrooms, never really was how it worked with my

. We would show her an array of possible choices and she would touch or

take the one she desired. She would tap the picture with an object, or

someone's finger, or even take the picture from you, but she would never choose

one and hand it to anyone. She has since moved to colored line-drawing style

pictures, rather than photos, in her pictures used to request and comment. Last

year, she obtained an augmentative communication device, which " speaks " a

recorded message when she touches the picture. This has opened up a lot of

possibilities for her, but in some circumstances, it's not as useful as

pictures. Feel free to email me off-list for more info, if you'd like.

Jenn: Concerning yeast, when I said I double her dose of Lactobacillus

Acidophilus, I should have clarified quantity. usually gets 6 to 8 of

these capsules per day. When we double, we're giving her 12 to 16 per day.

Granted, my is tall and weighs about 160 lbs, but she has taken 3 to 6

capsules a day as a maintenance dose for as long as I can remember, even when

she was a little thing. There's no harm done in getting " too much " of the

healthy yeast that your intestines need in the war against candida and other

kinds of nasty microbes. Our biggest concern is always the expense of giving

her this many capsules at a time. These are expensive capsules, so if she only

requires 8 to do the job, it would be a shame to find out that we're giving her

4 more than that, which her system is just flushing. But, it's worth any price

to get 's bad yeast, and her behavior, under control again. So, Jenn,

doubling Kali's dose by just 1/2 capsule may not be near enough. Don't be

afraid of the healthy yeast. I think we're all too afraid of " die-off symptoms "

on this list, even though no two people seem to be able to agree what die-off

may look like for any one child. But, we DO know what thrush and vaginal yeast

look like and those are nothing to play around with while worrying about

die-off. Die-off is what we're after, not something to be feared. So, better

unexplainable behavior that later you can look at and call " die-off " than to not

treat definite symptoms for fear of this invisible monster called die-off.

Oh, and we've always mixed 's supplement capsules with legal juice in an

oral syringe, so if you're imagining that happily swallows all these

capsules . . . NOT! Thankfully, she does very tolerantly suck down anything we

put up to her mouth in an oral syringe.

Hope this extra info helps.

Nannette SCD 3+ months, IBD

daughter, 13 yo, SCD 3+ months, autism

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Nannette,

Thank you for sharing your die-off experiences with your daughter. I

will be using this Christmas vacation to nuke that yeast, parasites etc.

with foods and some extra probiotics. My daughter is VERY HYPER when we give

her more probiotics than what she is used to litterally climbing the walls.

I can handle this here at home but, at school the teachers cannot get her to

focus etc. when we give her the extra yogurt. I will be getting some

activated charcoal for when she starts school up again. I hope that I have

enough time to get this under control. I just want to be sure her little

body can not be damaged further by detoxing too fast. I was just wondering

if that's even possible. It's got to be hard on the body. I'm sure having

yeast or parasites is difficult for a little one to have also. We give Kali

her " meds " through a syringe with juice too. I am excited to see what this

can do for my baby. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you so very much.

Jenn & Kali 7 months scd

Response to Elaine & Jenn & about yeast

Elaine: My daughter has spoken many words in her life, but doesn't speak in

any regular fashion at 13 years old, so we consider her non-verbal. We

believe the deteriation of her ability to speak definitely correlates with

her GI situation becoming more and more severe over the years (i.e. toxins

in her brain from her gut that we weren't aware of either damaged her brain,

or hindered her ability to learn when there were windows of opportunity. We

hope the damage is reversible now that we feel she is healing up with SCD.)

At 5 years old, my daughter infrequently used photos of actual objects,

people and places to make requests and " engage in conversation. " Picture

Exchange, as it's done traditionally in classrooms, never really was how it

worked with my . We would show her an array of possible choices and

she would touch or take the one she desired. She would tap the picture with

an object, or someone's finger, or even take the picture from you, but she

would never choose one and hand it to anyone. She has since moved to

colored line-drawing style pictures, rather than photos, in her pictures

used to request and comment. Last year, she obtained an augmentative

communication device, which " speaks " a recorded message when she touches the

picture. This has opened up a lot of possibilities for her, but in some

circumstances, it's not as useful as pictures. Feel free to email me

off-list for more info, if you'd like.

Jenn: Concerning yeast, when I said I double her dose of Lactobacillus

Acidophilus, I should have clarified quantity. usually gets 6 to 8

of these capsules per day. When we double, we're giving her 12 to 16 per

day. Granted, my is tall and weighs about 160 lbs, but she has taken

3 to 6 capsules a day as a maintenance dose for as long as I can remember,

even when she was a little thing. There's no harm done in getting " too

much " of the healthy yeast that your intestines need in the war against

candida and other kinds of nasty microbes. Our biggest concern is always

the expense of giving her this many capsules at a time. These are expensive

capsules, so if she only requires 8 to do the job, it would be a shame to

find out that we're giving her 4 more than that, which her system is just

flushing. But, it's worth any price to get 's bad yeast, and her

behavior, under control again. So, Jenn, doubling Kali's dose by just 1/2

capsule may not be near enough. Don't be afraid of the healthy yeast. I

think we're all too afraid of " die-off symptoms " on this list, even though

no two people seem to be able to agree what die-off may look like for any

one child. But, we DO know what thrush and vaginal yeast look like and

those are nothing to play around with while worrying about die-off. Die-off

is what we're after, not something to be feared. So, better unexplainable

behavior that later you can look at and call " die-off " than to not treat

definite symptoms for fear of this invisible monster called die-off.

Oh, and we've always mixed 's supplement capsules with legal juice in

an oral syringe, so if you're imagining that happily swallows all

these capsules . . . NOT! Thankfully, she does very tolerantly suck down

anything we put up to her mouth in an oral syringe.

Hope this extra info helps.

Nannette SCD 3+ months, IBD

daughter, 13 yo, SCD 3+ months, autism