Food allergies and SCD - diet?

[Guest guest]

I have been monitoring the posts for about two months now and have

read BTVC. Fundamentally, I don't know how to do this diet when my

son is allergic to some of the main ingredients (eggs, gelatin, peanut

and nuts). He is also allergic to: oats, rice, wheat, dairy, potato,

soy, corn, and beef (that we know of; there is constant ongoing

allergy testing, most recently for goal milk...results pending).

I saw Bonita and Tara's posts about their children's allergies. Could

all of you supermom's send me some advice on how you are doing this?

I, too, have hit the wall and have no choice (that I can find) but to

do this diet...I am just concerned about how nutritionally balanced it

will be without some of those core ingredients.

Thank you for any help (and recipes) you can offer. Did someone post

a while ago how to search the files? Could you repost? Thank you.

Laurie

Mom to Philip, ASD, 7, SEVERE food allergies and gut problems.

[Guest guest]

Hi, Laurie,

There are many doing this diet whose children have similar

allergies/sensitivities as your son. I hope they will post with some

tips.

Gelatin is really not an important part of the diet. It does help on

the intro, but is not required. Did you know there are different

types of gelatin, like fish gelatin and I think I've heard of a

vegetarian gelatin?

So first, on the intro diet, your son can have:

Chicken broth

--Chicken broth with pureed cooked carrots

--Chicken broth with chunks of cooked chicken

--Chicken broth with cooked carrot sliced into little " coins "

--Chicken broth with " chicken balls " made from ground chicken

Roasted chicken

Roasted turkey

well-cooked carrots

Welches grape juice

apple cider

For foods after the intro diet, people use pureed foods for an egg

sub. Here is a post from Grammy Bauer about egg-free baking:

*Egg Free Baking

Baked and pureed butternut or acorn squash, mashed ripe bananas,

homemade apple or pearsauce can be used to substitute for eggs in a

recipe. If the recipe says 2 eggs, substitute 1/2 cup of the mashed or

pureed item.

If you find an alternate form of gelatin that your son tolerates, you

can also use gelatin as an egg-sub.

I don't think the diet is nutritionally unbalanced without eggs and

nuts. Eggs are a protein source and nuts are protein and fat. There

are other protein sources--meat, cheese, yogurt, and other fat

sources--avocado, olive oil, coconut oil, cheese, yogurt, etc. So

the difficulty of doing nut-free, egg-free is not the nutrition, it

is the inability to make a lot of the baked goods.

I don't know if what your son is experiencing is a true allergy or a

sensitivity. Often, after a while on the diet, the kids with

sensitivities lose some or all of them and can tolerate a wider

variety of foods.

Here is where you can go to read old (and new) posts. This is a

great way to learn.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/

Here is where the files are:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/files/

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Laurie, don't know if it will help, but will share my SCD experience. I

have an autistic grandson and so have monitored and read as much as I could

about the SCD program and available information. Fortunately for me this

has been a blessing. My immune system and gut was pretty much shot due to

major exposure to atomic radiation when I was in the military service.

When I started the SCD program a few years back, I could not see any way it

would help me, regardless of what I tried. I finally found a starting point

and my situation has been improving ever since. The key for me was to eat

only non-antibiotic and non hormone meat (even then I had to be careful

because some meat had been cross contaminated or mislabeled - I cannot begin

to tell you how much meat I discarded after the first meal and becoming

sick, and so became very selective in were I purchased meat). To this day,

regular beef, chicken, and lamb will make me sick a few hours after eating

it. Still cannot tolerate much pork. The beef that has been the best for

me, without any reactions, and very mild, tender, and moist, has been the

beef outside skirt steak (not the inside skirt steak, very tough and not

good tasting). I can also eat lamb without too much difficulty if it is

relatively young and non hormone and non antibiotic. To cook a lamb

shoulder roast, I put it in a crock pot and cook it for six hours (about

four pounds) and it comes out very tender and tasty. As to cooking the

outside skirt steak, I use the plastic bags to cook chicken/turkeys and the

cooking time is about 30 minutes, with the temperature about 350 degrees (as

you know, ovens vary in how fast they cook). I also stayed away from

carrots, bananas, and other high glycemic food items for at least eight

months, and still cannot tolerate almond flour, but can use pecan flour

most times. I am still very careful about diary products and can eat some

SCD legal cheese, but sparingly. Hope the above helps a bit, Sam.

Food allergies and SCD - diet?

I have been monitoring the posts for about two months now and have

read BTVC. Fundamentally, I don't know how to do this diet when my

son is allergic to some of the main ingredients (eggs, gelatin, peanut

and nuts). He is also allergic to: oats, rice, wheat, dairy, potato,

soy, corn, and beef (that we know of; there is constant ongoing

allergy testing, most recently for goal milk...results pending).

I saw Bonita and Tara's posts about their children's allergies. Could

all of you supermom's send me some advice on how you are doing this?

I, too, have hit the wall and have no choice (that I can find) but to

do this diet...I am just concerned about how nutritionally balanced it

will be without some of those core ingredients.

Thank you for any help (and recipes) you can offer. Did someone post

a while ago how to search the files? Could you repost? Thank you.

Laurie

Mom to Philip, ASD, 7, SEVERE food allergies and gut problems.