iron deficiency & early scd

[Guest guest]

We are in the first days of SCD.

DS (suspected Celiac and ASD) has been diagnosed iron-deficient (close

to anemic).

Floravit fixed him up once before.

Where a child (3) is near-anemic, does supplementation to resolve that

override early SCD approaches, or should the early-SCD approaches be

taken first and foremost? If the latter, how long until he should be

able to take Floravit?

Floravit: No gluten, no lactose, and no hydrolized plant proteins.

Grape, pear, blackcurrant, cherry, blackberry and carrot juice

concentrates.

[Guest guest]

Hi, Baden,

You always have to do what you think is best for your child. On SCD we

would urge you to try to get more iron from foods, such as liver.

There are even capsules with dried liver if your family hates liver.

Juice concentrates are sometimes legal and sometimes not depending on

the process used. The Welch's grape juice and the 's tomato

juice are two where there process has checked out and is ok, but we

generally call concentrated juices illegal since we don't know how they

were processed.

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04