Working myself up to try this: intro

[Guest guest]

I'm a mom to three kids. I've been struggling with resistant Candida

since the birth of my daugher 13 mos. ago. She has mild eczema, food

intolerances (especially dairy, including goat), and digestive (poop)

issues. My 4 yo son is somewhat intolerant to dairy, has sleep apnea,

frequent colds, and has some behavior issues. My oldest son, 12, was

diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome about a year ago. He doesn't have any

obvious digestive symptoms, but does have chronic chapped lips and

gets really kooky after eating sweets.

I really think we all need to heal our guts and balance our flora, but

it's hard to take the plunge.

I've set a date to start the intro diet and am going to box up all our

scd illegal food in the days before it. I am talking up the benefits

to my boys, priming them to start.

Do you have recommendations on how to do this w/o dairy? I'm dairy

free now, since my DD reacts badly and is still nursing. I do eat

tofutti cheese once in a while and will miss cheese subsitutes. Any

cheese subs scd legal?

Is this a permanent lifestyle? Can the guts of those who are autistic

heal enough to handle gluten when they were previously sensitive to

it? Do any of you anticipate eating potatoes, grains, chick peas,

etc. again? Or might our digestive systems never be able to handle

polysaccharides again?

How long do I wait between introducing foods after the intro diet? If

I know some things are tolerated can I give them in combination with

other foods?

I'd love general tips for starting. I've read the book and have spent

a lot of time reading various websites. I'm ready to stock up on some

nuts and chicken....

Thanks,

Molly

[Guest guest]

Molly,

The best site to do SCD without dairy is pecanbread.com. The vast

majority of the recipes on the site are dairy free. There is a recipe

to make nut milk yogurt as well.

I honestly don't have the answers to the questions you've asked about

whether someone can recover to the point where eating starches won't

be a problem. I think that is based on each individuals health. For

people who are actually missing the starch-breaking enzymes, I don't

think it would be possible to go back to eating starch withouth

becoming sick again. For those with complete enzyme abilities,

perhaps it would be possible.

As for how long to wait between introducing new foods, that is also a

personal issue. Some people can add new foods more quickly than

others. There is no set time frame. It's just based on personal

reactions.

I would caution you against " stocking up " on nuts until you are

farther along in the diet. Nuts are not really a big part of the

beginning of the diet and it would be more feasible to try each type

of nut (when your system is ready) and find what you like the best and

what agrees with you and then order that in bulk.

Welcome to the list!

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

molly,

it sounds like you are ready if you have done all that reading and

researching.

i think although a special diet feels like a huge undertaking at

first from where you might be sitting, after a little while it will

feel normal for your family and you will adapt. eventually after an

initial period my family has adapted to any diet change we have

undertaken. for a while i was having a new diet plan approximately

every 6 months depending on which practitioner which test results we

were looking at. with each change it only felt difficult in the

beginning month or so and then i adapted. The scd is the best diet we

have found for healing our children's intestines and it was well worth

the work involved. the sooner you get started on SCD the sooner you

will be likely to see all those exzema, and sugar behaviors, and

aspergers-like behaviors disappearing.

lets see here's some things that i can recommend for starting scd -

i typically waited until i was sure that there was no bad reaction to

a new food. we usually waited until we had a normal healthy bm and

that tended to be 1-2 days. you can train your kids to tell you what

their bm looks like but i actually have mine call me and i look at it.

keep a good log of new food and what behaviors, symptoms or bm results

and you will know when you have a bad reaction what it is to. when you

start a new food remember that a bad reaction will be proportional to

the size of the serving tested. so go with tiny size test first.

better chance of smooth recovering and getting back on track.

i also used almond yogurt and dripped it and used that in a lot of

recipes instead of cheese. some kids actually do well with some

allowed cheeses so you can plan on testing this after you start

perhaps.

the other thing is that it is hard to spend lots of time trying to

reproduce all the things your family eats before scd. it is easier

emotionally and time wise to just find new favorites. there is an

index of recipes in the files section of recipes appropriate for those

just moving out of intro diet. it is mostly of meats and cooked

veggies and fruits so perfect for when you are adding 1 new food at a

time.

donna

>

> I really think we all need to heal our guts and balance our flora,

but

> it's hard to take the plunge.

>

> I've set a date to start the intro diet

> I'd love general tips for starting. I've read the book and have spent

> a lot of time reading various websites. I'm ready to stock up on some

> nuts and chicken....

>

> Thanks,

>

> Molly

>