Discouraged and need hope

[Guest guest]

Well we have been on the scd diet for three weeks now and have continued to see

the worst diapers that we have ever seen. Prior to SCD, we had 1-2 stools daily

with a mashed potato consistency (light colored kind of yeasty looking) but now

they are really brown and runny and look sandy (maybe due to all the nut flours)

and often run down his legs...sometimes 1-3 a day.

Our current diet consists of:

fruits (a lot as he doesn't like many of the prepared foods on this diet)

some digestive wellness cookies

carrots

banana nut muffins

chicken nuggets

and thats about it, he refuses about everything else, we have tried countless

other items as well but he won't eat them

we had a great plains lab comprehensive stool test showing a strep imbalance

and a staph aureus dysbiotic problem...they gave some natural agents and

prescriptive agents to try and we purchased some caprylic acid in capsules that

I plan to mix in his applesauce...anyone have any background with this stuff and

if we should treat and how?

I have two good friends who have had success in about a week on this diet but

this has not been our experience. Should we start giving enzymes with every

meal?? Probiotics? and if so what kind? I don't want to introduce yogurt yet

as we have been gfcf for awhile.

My husband and I are so discouraged by all our experimenting with recipes and

coaxing food into him only to have a worsened situation.

Any help is so much appreciated.

p.s. the only time we have ever had formed stools was about a year or so

ago...we were gfcf and after daily rounds of nizoral for a couple of weeks,

enzymes with all meals and probiotics, we had formed stools. but it only lasted

as long as we were on the nizoral, but I became afraid to keep him on the

product because of potential liver problems that I had read about.

[Guest guest]

Are you pealing, seeding, and cooking all of the fruit? Too much fruit can make

the stools runny also. What ingredients are in your chicken nuggets? How long

ago did you introduce nut flour? I would definitely pull that out. Yes, you

need to get some probiotics in him if you haven't been giving him yogurt or

probiotics. You're giving the yeast and bacteria opportunity to just overgrow

again by not replacing what dies off with good bacteria in his gut. You really

need to get more veggies in him.

Meleah

Discouraged and need hope

Well we have been on the scd diet for three weeks now and have continued to

see the worst diapers that we have ever seen. Prior to SCD, we had 1-2 stools

daily with a mashed potato consistency (light colored kind of yeasty looking)

but now they are really brown and runny and look sandy (maybe due to all the nut

flours) and often run down his legs...sometimes 1-3 a day.

Our current diet consists of:

fruits (a lot as he doesn't like many of the prepared foods on this diet)

some digestive wellness cookies

carrots

banana nut muffins

chicken nuggets

and thats about it, he refuses about everything else, we have tried countless

other items as well but he won't eat them

we had a great plains lab comprehensive stool test showing a strep imbalance

and a staph aureus dysbiotic problem...they gave some natural agents and

prescriptive agents to try and we purchased some caprylic acid in capsules that

I plan to mix in his applesauce...anyone have any background with this stuff and

if we should treat and how?

I have two good friends who have had success in about a week on this diet but

this has not been our experience. Should we start giving enzymes with every

meal?? Probiotics? and if so what kind? I don't want to introduce yogurt yet as

we have been gfcf for awhile.

My husband and I are so discouraged by all our experimenting with recipes and

coaxing food into him only to have a worsened situation.

Any help is so much appreciated.

p.s. the only time we have ever had formed stools was about a year or so

ago...we were gfcf and after daily rounds of nizoral for a couple of weeks,

enzymes with all meals and probiotics, we had formed stools. but it only lasted

as long as we were on the nizoral, but I became afraid to keep him on the

product because of potential liver problems that I had read about.

[Guest guest]

,

My boys started off the same way on this diet. All one of them would eat

would be pureed food. Every thing had to be sweetened with fruit and honey.

Well, the first thing I took out were the carrots. They just were not digesting

properly. I replaced carrots with butternut squash fries and mashed cooked

butternut squash with minced chicken or ground buffalo or ground beef. I saw

improvements.

With my one boys who would only eat stuff that was pureed and sweetened with

fruit and honey, I had to pull ALL honey and ALL fruit for a couple of days and

redo the starter diet. He went on a hunger strike that lasted a couple of days.

But when he got hungry he started to eat.

Here is what I use in the starter diet: cooked whole chicken in water.

Reserve the cooked water (broth) and chill and later use to mix four ounces of

broth with about 3 ounces of legal juice. Good way to get minerals and protein.

I pull the chicken off the bone, mince it in a food processor and mix with

cooked mashed butternut sqaush and form nuggets. Cook at 350 degrees for 30

minutes. This makes chicken nuggets that my boys love. Also make meatballs the

same way. That way they get protein from meat and nutrition from veggies. Also

make jello cubes with knox gelatine and legal juice mixed half and half with

water.

I also did not use any nut flours for a long time. Now we still only use a

few times per week.

It is not easy but if you let him just go on a hunger strike, he will eat when

he is hungry and will eat the nutritious foods that are easier to digest.

Hope this helps.

Dana

and Garrett, 3 years old as of Mar 24

SCD One Year!!!!!

Celiac, ASD, Speech and Motor Apraxia

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[Guest guest]

Dear ,

before you do anythiing else, please do this:

go online to www.danwebcast.com and register. The DAN webcast page will send

an alpha-numeric code to your email, and then you can access all of the videos

they have there, for free. After you have your access code, go to the

Washington DAN! conference, and find the video about SCD from Judy Gorman called

DAN! = Diets are Non-Negotiable. Watch the entire video, right to the end. I

think you will find this video inspiring, reasuring, and that it will answer

your questions very clearly. After you watch it, please let me know what you

think.

Your friend,

Kathy

wrote:

Well we have been on the scd diet for three weeks now and have

continued to see the worst diapers that we have ever seen. Prior to SCD, we had

1-2 stools daily with a mashed potato consistency (light colored kind of yeasty

looking) but now they are really brown and runny and look sandy (maybe due to

all the nut flours) and often run down his legs...sometimes 1-3 a day.

Our current diet consists of:

fruits (a lot as he doesn't like many of the prepared foods on this diet)

some digestive wellness cookies

carrots

banana nut muffins

chicken nuggets

and thats about it, he refuses about everything else, we have tried countless

other items as well but he won't eat them

we had a great plains lab comprehensive stool test showing a strep imbalance and

a staph aureus dysbiotic problem...they gave some natural agents and

prescriptive agents to try and we purchased some caprylic acid in capsules that

I plan to mix in his applesauce...anyone have any background with this stuff and

if we should treat and how?

I have two good friends who have had success in about a week on this diet but

this has not been our experience. Should we start giving enzymes with every

meal?? Probiotics? and if so what kind? I don't want to introduce yogurt yet as

we have been gfcf for awhile.

My husband and I are so discouraged by all our experimenting with recipes and

coaxing food into him only to have a worsened situation.

Any help is so much appreciated.

p.s. the only time we have ever had formed stools was about a year or so

ago...we were gfcf and after daily rounds of nizoral for a couple of weeks,

enzymes with all meals and probiotics, we had formed stools. but it only lasted

as long as we were on the nizoral, but I became afraid to keep him on the

product because of potential liver problems that I had read about.

[Guest guest]

Is there illegal food in the house? My son stopped refusing what was put in

front of him only when there was nothing else in the house. Suddenly SCD looked

appealing to him. I would clear out the house and start over with maybe 1

fruit/day, a different veggie, and none of the baked foods. What really helped

my hunger striker was to do a 5-day rotation of his foods to keep it " exciting. "

He is no longer stuck on a food until he gets sick of it. We do a turkey day,

beef/buffalo day, seafood day, pork day, egg/cheese day. I also rotate the

carbs on a 5-day rotation. Don't feel guilty about starving him a bit -- it's

not cruel if the outcome is having a child who enjoys a wider variety of foods.

That's what happened with my child. For completey new foods (a salmon burger

for instance), I expected him to turn it down, but I still served it and then

cut it up into sticks, put it in a cup and went somewhere in the car. He would

often eat it in his carseat, even though

he wouldn't touch it at the table.

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wrote:

Well we have been on the scd diet for three weeks now and have

continued to see the worst diapers that we have ever seen. Prior to SCD, we had

1-2 stools daily with a mashed potato consistency (light colored kind of yeasty

looking) but now they are really brown and runny and look sandy (maybe due to

all the nut flours) and often run down his legs...sometimes 1-3 a day.

Our current diet consists of:

fruits (a lot as he doesn't like many of the prepared foods on this diet)

some digestive wellness cookies

carrots

banana nut muffins

chicken nuggets

and thats about it, he refuses about everything else, we have tried countless

other items as well but he won't eat them

we had a great plains lab comprehensive stool test showing a strep imbalance and

a staph aureus dysbiotic problem...they gave some natural agents and

prescriptive agents to try and we purchased some caprylic acid in capsules that

I plan to mix in his applesauce...anyone have any background with this stuff and

if we should treat and how?

I have two good friends who have had success in about a week on this diet but

this has not been our experience. Should we start giving enzymes with every

meal?? Probiotics? and if so what kind? I don't want to introduce yogurt yet as

we have been gfcf for awhile.

My husband and I are so discouraged by all our experimenting with recipes and

coaxing food into him only to have a worsened situation.

Any help is so much appreciated.

p.s. the only time we have ever had formed stools was about a year or so

ago...we were gfcf and after daily rounds of nizoral for a couple of weeks,

enzymes with all meals and probiotics, we had formed stools. but it only lasted

as long as we were on the nizoral, but I became afraid to keep him on the

product because of potential liver problems that I had read about.

[Guest guest]

Just from looking at what he's been eating and how my son did, I would say you

are feeding him too much fruit and nut flour. I would cut out most of the fruit

and nut products for a couple of days and see how he does. Push vegetables and

also try to hide some veggies in the chicken nuggets. My son was SO incredibly

intolerant of different foods and textures at first, but when I held firm and

did not allow his favorites, he improved.

>>Well we have been on the scd diet for three weeks now and have continued to

see the worst diapers that we have ever seen. Prior to SCD, we had 1-2 stools

daily with a mashed potato consistency (light colored kind of yeasty looking)

but now they are really brown and runny and look sandy (maybe due to all the nut

flours) and often run down his legs...sometimes 1-3 a day.

Our current diet consists of:

fruits (a lot as he doesn't like many of the prepared foods on this diet)

some digestive wellness cookies

carrots

banana nut muffins

chicken nuggets>>