addendem to diet crisis

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He literally spends all day at the dinner table trying to get him to eat his

food (today for instance). I have to fight with him to get him to eat anything

but at the same time he is too tired to hardly sit up or do anything else

because he doesn't have enough calories.

Bonita

diet crisis

Okay, I will try to keep this short and not sound crazed.

I'm basically at my whit's end. It has been beyond rough since

early in the 3rd month SCD. I put him back on the intro 2 times to

help with it. He's been sick with a sinus/cough type bug which set

us back due to meds (all pills, no liquid) he had to take. He had

food allergy testing that made his behavior worse again. Now I just

don't know what to do.

I know Elaine wanted you to give you child as much variety as

possible as long as there is no deadly reactions. He is incredibly

sensitive to sal.'s. They give him bad tics, make him defiant,

uncooperative, a nervous wreck, lack focus etc. The food allergies

(or any kind of histamine reaction) makes him hyper, spacey, out of

control, lack focus. I have tried some enzymes for the sal

situation, but haven't seen the overall improvement at all I don't

think. All these other happenings may have masked that.

Oh and the 2nd time I took him back to the intro and reintroduced

the foods slowly as I should, he lost 10 lbs, (He's only 8 and

weighed only 65 lbs before losing weight.) I can't get his weight

up, can't get his behavior under control and can't get him back to

doing school regularly either.

He's tired of eating the same foods (and frankly I don't blame him.

I can't get him to finish a meal anymore. It's not that he's not

hungry, he just doesn't want to eat the same foods over and over

again. He needs a HUGE amount of calories to just keep his weight

up and although he eats large portions (when I can get him to eat) I

just can't keep it up. I can't do much variety because of the food

allergies and sal intolerance. I'm just not good enough to be so

patient and deal with his behavior. He makes me want to leave home

and never come back. That's a horrible thing to say, but I just

can't deal with it. Everyone that knows us or is near us (including

my husband) can't deal with him and don't understand how I do.

He does get a tiny bit of yogurt everyday. I'm hoping I can see

some healing sometime and maybe this will get better, but it's going

so slowly and as long as he won't eat enough, he'll keep losing

weight and being sick and won't go to the next grade. I hate that

because he is so smart.

I can't quit this diet - there are no other options and no but I can

deal with him <it's obvious I don't do that very well either>. I

really don't know what to do or how to keep going. I'm literally

wearing out my hands and wrists preparing all his food. He eats

well over $300 in groceries every month by himself. Now this is

buying everything at the absolute most savings. With all that, he

still can't gain weight.

Bonita

son - SCED 4 months, Asperger's, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, food

allergies, high sal. intolerance