Needing Help. Our 4 year old has Crohns SCD 2 months

December 14, 2005

Ella has been on the diet for two months now. She's been weaned off

the prednisolone since Nov 20th. We've been charting her foods and

poops. Prior to the last week she had been going twice a day. One

would be perfectly formed then the next would be soft mush. Now the

last three days she has gone down to one BM which is 1/2 formed then

mush that follows.

Questions:

1. Does it take the colon muscle time to be able to form both stools?

Or a completely formed stool? It seems that once the " plug " comes out

then the mush quickly follows after it. Ella never has had many fomed

stools in her 4 years of life. Is this a muscle issue?

2. Perhaps its a food substance though that shes not tollerating that

well. She did come up positive for an alergy to Milk several months

ago. Her level was moderate in a range of .70 to 3.50 she was a .93

within that range. We want so much to feed her the yogurt due to all

the great bacteria and health benefits. However might this be causing

the softness? We've tried one batch of Goat's milk yogurt which tasted

awful to her. This last batch was 1/2 and 1/2 for more calories since

she is undersized. Most the batches are made of whole milk. We've

noted cheddar cheese might also cause problems but we were using

Tillamook only aged 60 days. We're now using Sharp Tillamook Cheddar

which is aged 9 months. We also put Dried Cured into her yogurt quite

often. We hate to discontinue such a good source of calcuim, calories,

and bacteria for her but perhaps we need to completely remove the dairy?

This last BM today was at 3pm. She had yogurt and bananas for

breakfast and lunch. Yet there was gas that I haven't heard in a

while. Leads me to think its the yogurt.

3. Of course then there is the 2-3 month infection and back slide that

Elaine mentions is common. Perhaps it is more that? Ella does blow her

nose a couple times a day but has no fever. She is indeed irritable.

I guess you could say I'm frustrated and confused what to do. Be happy

with one to two stools a day 1/2 formed? Or realize she is still

being sensitive to Milk?

Thanks for any input.

Brent McKinney

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