Is it Yeast or Intolerance to Honey or Almond Butter? (sorry long)

[Guest guest]

Hi, I'm hoping SCD veterans can help me with this issue. But first, I

wanted to give an update of my son on SCD. We've only been SCD for

2mths and this last month has brought I N C R E D I B L E verbal

gains. Dillon was basically non-verbal when we started the diet. Now

he will repeat almost anything you ask him to. He's not conversational

but at least he is talking!!! My entire family and the school are

shocked by his sudden progress. Ok, now for our current problem...we

were having nice BMs regularly and still really stage 1. He was getting

only bananas for fruit and NO honey at all for at least the past 1.5

mths. I added avocado and the squash from stage 2 and everything was

ok as long as it stayed in small amounts. I then used the PB cookie

and cake recipe from this site and used blanched almond butter in place

of PB. I also cut the honey in the recipe but he was getting some

honey. He started having dark circles come back under his eyes almost

immediately after those 'desserts' were added. Then we got some stimmy

behavior so I thought it was yeast and pulled out honey. I made more

of that recipe into muffins and omitted the honey. They were actually

really good with only banana as the sweetener-I was shocked. Dillon

loved them. Well, with honey out we are still having some odd

behaviors and the dark circles remain. The speech isn't as spontaneous

as it had become but he is still talking. They are wide dark circles

too so something isn't right. Now I'm wondering if this is an

intolerance to almonds or is it too soon to be giving him the almond

butter?? Also, in the evenings over the past 2 days he's had loose BM

30 min after eating the honey and/or honey-free muffins. Would an SCD

veteran consider this yeast and advise to redo the intro diet?? Does

this sound like it could be an intolerance to almond/almond butter??

Or does it sound like almonds are probably fine it's just too soon to

be giving them because not enough healing has taken place?? He is not

able to take any supplements other than acidophilus and sac b due to

loose stools so I know he is still in a delicate state. Any advice or

experience shared with me would be MOST appreciated. I'm really sad

about the possibility I may have to pull the muffins because he has

such few treats and is sooooo tired of the same small list of foods.

Again, thank you for any help,

Pam, mom to Dillon ASD 4yrs old

SCD June 23, 2007

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on the progress, Pam! Try the muffins with pecan

butter and see if that helps. If not, hold off on nut butters for a

while.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Hi , where would I buy pecan butter?? It is not listed on

Digestive Wellness. Thanks so much for the response. So I take from

your response this sounds more like intolerance than yeast so maybe I

don't have to retro diet?? Pam

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> Congratulations on the progress, Pam! Try the muffins with pecan

> butter and see if that helps. If not, hold off on nut butters for a

> while.

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> mom to -12

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[Guest guest]

I don't think anyone sells pecan butter. It is very drippy and I

personally think it tastes bad plain. But it makes fantastic baked

goods; I think they almost taste like chocolate.

Many kids tolerate pecan butter much better than almond--hence the name

pecanbread!

Symptoms can be confusing. I'm not sure it's not yeast, but I just

think that if I were you I would rather try checking the almond butter

first before assuming it's yeast.

Also, there is a common occurence we call the " 3 month flare " which is

an additional round of die-off at approx. the 3-month mark. Epsom salt

baths and activated charcoal can help with this. You also might find

it helpful to go back to the intro for a couple of days.

Sorry I don't know for sure what it is, but you have a couple of

possibilities here besides yeast.

mom to -12

SCd 4/23/04

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