Looking for your support w/SCD...

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

My oldest ASD son has been on the GF/CF diet and have seen DAN! Drs

for the past 5+ years. This year, we also combined the Yasko

protocol along with continuing certain DAN! supplements(antioxidants,

MB12 shots and etc.). We also did 80 sessions of both soft and hard

chamber and last October 2006, he deveoped TICS. My son's gut has

not improved and antifungals anti-yeast regiments do not hold. I

knew about the SCD years back but never had the courage to try it.

Finally after attending the DAN! conference this October in LA, I

decided to put him on the SCD. I have a couple of questions I hope

you can help me with :

1) How long should one try the SCD ?

2) It's been three weeks since we started SCD, my son had few

episodes of diarhea. I am guessing that these might be die offs.

3) My son is highly allergic to peanuts, almonds and nuts in

general, eggs, cows milk, soy and wheat, I don't want to give up on

making yogurts, breads and pancakes for him. Any suggestion on

replacing nuts and eggs ? Every meals he eats brocolli/cauliflower

plus beef or chicken along with fresh fruits. It is discouraging

when he asks for food that he used to like(e.g. GF/CF corn bread,

cookies and etc.). I'm not sure what else I can feed him as he is a

picky eater.

4) Eye contact and response time are at the all time worse. Will

there be light at the end of the tunnel in these areas ? Is

regression typical as nothing has noticeably changed in the past

weeks.

Thanks for any inspiration to continue the SCD.

-Kathy

[Guest guest]

Hi just wanted to say hi cant answer all your

questions as i am a newbie, my son also has autism he

is 7 we did gf/cf for 3 years with little success we

have been doing dan therapy for almost two years

progress really slowed down due to gut bugs and yeast

we found only gse and oil of oreagno touched his gut

bugs and then only really in bursts we have been doing

scd properly for 2 weeks were trying out recipes to

see if it was ok prior to that for about 3 weeks shane

had the dirreohea for the first week and a half seems

to be dieing down down he has had a speech explosion

that 5 years of speech therapy couldnt produce but scd

did there's defintely light and the end of the tunnel

i know we are only just begining to see postive

effects of the diet but i woulndt go back.

melissaxx

mother to shane aged 7 autism scd 14 days

--- klin8 wrote:

> Dear friends,

>

> My oldest ASD son has been on the GF/CF diet and

> have seen DAN! Drs

> for the past 5+ years. This year, we also combined

> the Yasko

> protocol along with continuing certain DAN!

> supplements(antioxidants,

> MB12 shots and etc.). We also did 80 sessions of

> both soft and hard

> chamber and last October 2006, he deveoped TICS. My

> son's gut has

> not improved and antifungals anti-yeast regiments do

> not hold. I

> knew about the SCD years back but never had the

> courage to try it.

> Finally after attending the DAN! conference this

> October in LA, I

> decided to put him on the SCD. I have a couple of

> questions I hope

> you can help me with :

>

> 1) How long should one try the SCD ?

>

> 2) It's been three weeks since we started SCD, my

> son had few

> episodes of diarhea. I am guessing that these might

> be die offs.

>

> 3) My son is highly allergic to peanuts, almonds

> and nuts in

> general, eggs, cows milk, soy and wheat, I don't

> want to give up on

> making yogurts, breads and pancakes for him. Any

> suggestion on

> replacing nuts and eggs ? Every meals he eats

> brocolli/cauliflower

> plus beef or chicken along with fresh fruits. It is

> discouraging

> when he asks for food that he used to like(e.g.

> GF/CF corn bread,

> cookies and etc.). I'm not sure what else I can

> feed him as he is a

> picky eater.

>

> 4) Eye contact and response time are at the all

> time worse. Will

> there be light at the end of the tunnel in these

> areas ? Is

> regression typical as nothing has noticeably changed

> in the past

> weeks.

>

> Thanks for any inspiration to continue the SCD.

>

> -Kathy

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi Kathy,

>

> Dear friends,

>

> My oldest ASD son has been on the GF/CF diet and have seen DAN!

Drs

> for the past 5+ years. This year, we also combined the Yasko

> protocol along with continuing certain DAN! supplements

(antioxidants,

> MB12 shots and etc.). We also did 80 sessions of both soft and

hard

> chamber and last October 2006, he deveoped TICS. My son's gut has

> not improved and antifungals anti-yeast regiments do not hold. I

> knew about the SCD years back but never had the courage to try

it.

> Finally after attending the DAN! conference this October in LA, I

> decided to put him on the SCD. I have a couple of questions I

hope

> you can help me with :

>

> 1) How long should one try the SCD ?>>>>

Some people say 1 month is sufficient. But some parents said they

didn't see positive changes until 3 months into the diet.

<<<<2) It's been three weeks since we started SCD, my son had few

> episodes of diarhea. I am guessing that these might be die

offs.>>>

Might be die off or not tolerating a food that he is eating.

Did you start with the intro?

What foods is he eating?

>

<<<3) My son is highly allergic to peanuts, almonds and nuts in

> general, eggs, cows milk, soy and wheat, I don't want to give up

on

> making yogurts, breads and pancakes for him. Any suggestion on

> replacing nuts and eggs ? Every meals he eats

brocolli/cauliflower

> plus beef or chicken along with fresh fruits.>>>>

Cauliflower and brocolli can be troublesome if he is still having

bowel symptoms - they are part of the cabbage family and can trigger

diarrhea and gas for some people.

Raw fruit may trigger or make diarrhea worse.

How were his stools preSCD? What foods did he eat then?

<<<< It is discouraging

> when he asks for food that he used to like(e.g. GF/CF corn bread,

> cookies and etc.). I'm not sure what else I can feed him as he is

a > picky eater.>>>>

>

> 4) Eye contact and response time are at the all time worse. Will

> there be light at the end of the tunnel in these areas ? Is

> regression typical as nothing has noticeably changed in the past

> weeks.>>>>

More than die off this sounds like he isn't tolerating some of the

foods he is eating.

Sheila, SCD Feb. 2001, UC 23yrs, PCOD 22yrs

mom of and

>

> Thanks for any inspiration to continue the SCD.

>

> -Kathy

>

[Guest guest]

Hi and all,

Thanks for sharing and lending your support. It's

great to know that I am not alone in trying out SCD.

This is our fourth week and again today my son had a

major diarrhea and he poops every other day rather

than every day before going on SCD.

I am very concerned. Can anyone suggest what might be

going on ? Could die-offs last for a week or longer ?

-Kathy

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[Guest guest]

He may be constipated to the point of partially blocked, with diarrhea seeping

through.

-

Kathy Lin wrote:

Hi and all,

Thanks for sharing and lending your support. It's

great to know that I am not alone in trying out SCD.

This is our fourth week and again today my son had a

major diarrhea and he poops every other day rather

than every day before going on SCD.

I am very concerned. Can anyone suggest what might be

going on ? Could die-offs last for a week or longer ?

-Kathy

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