Re: Carrots are the culprit. I need help.

[Guest guest]

>

> I everyone. After 5 months of my son having diarrhea I've finally determined

that

carrots, even cooked til very mushy, is causing the problem. He ate carrots and

pretty

much everything else he eats and much more legal foods (fruits) pre SCD and

never had

diarrhea. He always had 2-3 solid stools that were not well digested pre SCD.

Now, if I

feed him carrots he has diarrhea 6-8 times a day. It took me so long to figure

it out

because he ate carrots almost everyday pre SCD. Anyways, I need some help to

figure out

what to feed him. Right now he eats:

>

I use butternut squash in place of carrots when possible ( example: chicken

soup) as I have

cross recative latex allergy to them yet I tried a raw carrot last Sunday and

the world is still

turning.

Carol F.

[Guest guest]

Hi !

My kids had a terrible time with carrots as well (cooked, pureed, and all). In

fact, of all the foods, they reacted the worst to this one. We have been SCD

for 4 months, and only now can they tolerate a couple tablespoons of it (peeled,

cooked, pureed). I have read from other sources that carrots are a very starchy

vegetable and cannot be digested very easily by children (regardless of health

status). And I frequently wonder why this is introduced so early in the diet or

why it hasn't been modified for the pecan bread group (since it is geared toward

children). Of the few people that I know personally who do SCD, not one has had

a good experience with peeled, cooked, and pureed carrots in the beginning of

the diet. My opinion is that maybe it should be introduced as a more advanced

food.

Jeni Lynn

Carrots are the culprit. I need help.

I everyone. After 5 months of my son having diarrhea I've finally determined

that carrots, even cooked til very mushy, is causing the problem. He ate

carrots and pretty much everything else he eats and much more legal foods

(fruits) pre SCD and never had diarrhea. He always had 2-3 solid stools that

were not well digested pre SCD. Now, if I feed him carrots he has diarrhea 6-8

times a day. It took me so long to figure it out because he ate carrots almost

everyday pre SCD. Anyways, I need some help to figure out what to feed him.

Right now he eats:

All meats

Ripe banana, pears, and avocado. Apple, peach, and apricot I haven't seen a

reaction but it has been hard to know since he's had diarreha. They might be OK

because other things that bother him he will eat well and then refuse for months

afterward. When the diarrhea fully clears I will have to retest these fruit.

Winter squashes, Zucchini (hates the texture, but will eat if hidden), small

amounts of Broccoli (I'm scared to try to much at once).

He has a hard time with oils. Mainly his fat if from meat and avocado. He

can only tolerate olive oil, grapeseed oil, and avocado oil. I'm going to try

pumpkin seed and sesame seed oil soon.

I usually have him eat a couple veggie bites, then he eats his meat and then

I feed him a pureed veggie usually carrots and avocado or butternut or acorn

squash (since this is all I can find. Spaghetti squash is a no.) with broccoli

or zucchini with some fat.

With no carrots I would mainly be feeding him squash all day everyday for

his carb. He has such a leaky gut (34 foods at last check) so I really want him

on a rotating diet. But how? I'm really mentally stuck on giving him high carb

veggies. I don't know if this is reasonable or not and if I need to let it go.

Any recommendation on a high carb veggie to try or want to set me at ease about

him eating low carb for a little while. With giving him 1 cup carrots, 1 cup

squash, and a banana everyday is the only way he makes it to his required carbs

according to fitday. And he hasn't gained an ounce even since last May! Well

he lost a bunch from May to October (when we started SCD) and has been gaining

it back but none the less has never been higher than what he weighed last May

and he was at the 3rd percentile then. So I'm a little stuck, but I know that

if he is not digesting it than a food that he could digest even in less carb

would still be better. I guess I need

some recommendations and a little pep talk. Thanks.

Elijah 3.5 ASD (and loosing the label), leaky-gut, and faliure to thrive

a 2

All SCD 5.5 months

---------------------------------

New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save

big.