Re: I need some encouragement

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Well, the strawberries are definitely not a good food for him right now. Why

don't you try a pealed, seeded, and cooked fruit that is easier to digest like

pear, apple, or peach? Be careful not to give him too many of the chicken

pancakes just because you don't want to give him too much of the animal protein.

It sounds like you've gotten far enough that you should switch to full blown SCD

from the beginning. You can do two days of intro with the cooked carrots and

the meats and eggs and such. At this point, even one day of intro might cover

it. Then, you should definitely give him another carb food like some sort of

fruit. If he's having trouble getting his bowels to move, you could do a cooked

peach because bananas and homemade pearsauce and applesuace can be binding for

some people. You can also try the electrolite drink on pecanbread.com because

it is helpful in getting the bowels to move for some. He definitely needs to

have a stool very soon. He probably doesn't feel well because he hasn't used

the bathroom in a few days, and he could be experiencing die off. Also, with

those bowels not moving, the die off toxins could be just sitting there in his

gut...making him feel really crummy. What about the diluted legal grape juices?

That could help with the need for more carbs.

Meleah

I need some encouragement

My son has been SCD for almost six days. I'm about to give up. My

main goal when I started was to just incorporate SCD foods with his

regular foods since he's so picky and then start hard core later.

Well, he started to eat the chicken pancakes and I was thrilled. I

was using strawberries as reinforcement. Take two bites of pancake

and you can have a strawberry. Day two he ate ten pancakes. Day

three he ate seven pancakes. Day four he wouldn't touch pancakes. I

gave him a few strawberries and some carrots and bites of Colby

cheese on day four. Day five I made banana muffins with almond

flour. He ate a few of those with some strawberries that I started

to cook and peel. This is day six and he's had half a chicken

pancake and some peeled strawberries and one muffin. As far as

supplements I've given him Kirkman's liquid zinc once a day and the

Kirkman's multi-vitamin every other day. He's only had one bowel

movement on day two so he has not pooped in four days. I've given

him a glycerin suppository which did nothing. His energy is very

low. I took him to OT and he didn't want to do much. He looks like

he has the flu.

I'm so worried. What should I do? I don't want to give up because

we've come this far and if it's die-off then I don't want to have to

go through this again. What should I do? He's so picky and I'm

feeding him things that are SCD, and I realize that I shouldn't give

him strawberries in the beginning, but if I don't he will not eat.

Help please. Thanks for any advice.