Guest guest Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 I'm sure this question has been asked a trillion times, and here it is again- Are we doing this diet properly? My son (almost 5 and Aspergers) is often moving, singing/blabbering, shaking his head and irritating his younger brother with his impilsive need to grab/pinch him. He also gets frustrated and angry very easily. It is for these reasons that we have tried the diet. My boys have been on the diet now for 17 days. I have noticed a general improvement in C's behaviour-less impulsive, more accepting of change of plans, less hyper. But TODAY-oh my goodness-he is " Off the wall " ! He is angry, stimming, hyper etc. I'm feeling really discouraged. He did eat a LOT of yogurt and honey yesterday (it was " sundae day " in his Kindergarten class)-that is my only explanation. Do you think the diet is working? I am afraid I screwed it up by not doing the strict phase in the beginning. I misunderstood that the strict phase (no fruit, nut bread, honey etc.) was only for those with diahrrea. We started by eating ALL of the foods on the legal list. Also-my son was previously on a Casein free diet and when we started the SCD I re-introduced the legal dairy foods ie. homemade yogurt, cheese. etc.right away. Can anyone give me any advice here? Should I continue doing what I'm doing or should I start all over and do the strict very restrictive diet for a while? Thanks! Alison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Hi Alison, <<I'm sure this question has been asked a trillion times, and here it > is again- Are we doing this diet properly? > > My son (almost 5 and Aspergers) is often moving, singing/blabbering, > shaking his head and irritating his younger brother with his > impilsive need to grab/pinch him. He also gets frustrated and angry > very easily. It is for these reasons that we have tried the diet. > > My boys have been on the diet now for 17 days. I have noticed a > general improvement in C's behaviour-less impulsive, more accepting > of change of plans, less hyper. But TODAY-oh my goodness-he is " Off > the wall " ! He is angry, stimming, hyper etc. I'm feeling really > discouraged. He did eat a LOT of yogurt and honey yesterday (it > was " sundae day " in his Kindergarten class)-that is my only > explanation.>> If he ate a lot of yogurt yesterday (more than usual?) then he is probably going through some die off. Epsom salt baths and/or activated charcoal may help reduce symptoms. This is most likely the problem since he is still a newbie and likely still has 'nasties' to clear out of his system. When possible it is best to gradually increase the amounts of food so that the damaged gut can adjust - this is *especially* the case with the yogurt. <<Do you think the diet is working?>> Since you are already seeing improvements in his behaviour it would seem that the diet is working for C. <<I am afraid I screwed it up by not doing the strict phase in the beginning. I misunderstood that the > strict phase (no fruit, nut bread, honey etc.) was only for those > with diahrrea. We started by eating ALL of the foods on the legal > list.>> It won't screw up the diet not to do the intro diet (strict phase) - it may just take longer to clear out the harmful microbes out of his system. It may also make it more difficult to tell if foods don't agree with him- or not. However, if apart from the yogurt incident at the school he is steadily seeing improvements you can continue as you are doing - the choice is yours. You may see periodic bursts of die off throughout the diet. Generally when this happens at regular intervals after months of improvements it can take a short period to get over the die off and then the improvements continue. Some parents even report a marked increase in improvements after these periods of die off have cleared. <<Also-my son was previously on a Casein free diet and when we started the SCD I re-introduced the legal dairy foods ie. homemade yogurt, > cheese. etc.right away. >> Despite being casein free preSCD you have seen improvements using SCD legal dairy. It would seem that the yogurt is helping. In the future just try to avoid increasing the yogurt too much at a time and only increase the yogurt gradually. Sheila, SCD Feb. 2001, UC 23yrs, PCOD 22yrs mom of and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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