Help pulling out of a flare!

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Posted by: " Little Britches Boutique " robbie@...

rawbee_g Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:13 pm (PST) Hi Robbie,

I can just offer empathy more than anything - I just recently had a flare up

after a couple of months of health and dreaded the intro. In fact, I tried the

intro during the 2 week flare and got so sick I ended up in the ER on IV fluids.

So pay attention to what is working and what is not. I surrendered to Pred this

time again so I could go home to my bed instead of admitting myself and of

course feel regretful at the current level because of the side effects. But

tomorrow it goes down some more and then I plan to taper it so slowly once I get

my head back on straight. What does Pred do to your son that you don't like?

Is there a tinsy tiny dose to get you through the short run and healing again

from the diet?

I'm reading a great book now called the Alchemy of Illness and it really turns

upside down our notions of health and illness and examines the transformative

nature of surrender when sick. My heart goes out to you trying to heal your son

- I have two small kids myself and as hard as it is sometimes, I think you have

to be so much stronger and courageous when it's your own child!

I can say I had my success when I started the yogurt 1/4 tsp and increased

slowly. I don't have a lot of money so I figured out the heating pad technique.

This is the

link:http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/beginners_guide/yoghurt/heating_pad\

_yoghurt.htm that I have found helpful. I've read other people's concerns with

the yogurt makers overheating and not working well. There are other techniques

and tricks to work with them but I've found this to work very well.

A couple of notes: First, I put the pan in a cooler which has a layer of a

towel then the heating pad around the bottom of the pan. I would add that I

make sure I heat the milk in the pan back to 110 degrees before placing it in

the cooler b/c it cools a bit when you transfer it to the cooler. Keeping the

towel and pad snug around the pan and the lid tight keeps the warm moisture

inside so it maintains. The website says cool to 100 degrees but I follow the

book on the temperature guidelines instead.

My next consult will be with an MD who practices integretive medicine and

aggressively diagnoses and treats yeast which is something I suspect has been an

ongoing problem for me (as evidenced by improvement with s bouldardi and yogurt

and years ago symptoms).

Anyway, good luck. Hope this post makes sense with this crazy Pred brain I'm

living with!

Liz K

UC 4 yrs, SCD 8/07

The problem with the intro diet is hates soup. Any soup. It's a nightmare

to get him to try and eat it. He's so good about the diet being only 7 yrs old -

he turns down illegals and really has such a good attitude, I just can't bear to

force him to do the intro. We already do mostly protein as it is.... the S

Boulardi he has never tolerated as we tried that and I'm scared of our yogurt

maker - we think it's over heating the yogurt. The first batch I suspected was

too hot ended up being fine but the last one seemed to bother both kids though

it took some time for the flare to come about. My dh dripped that batch so I

didn't take the temp so I really don't know if it was bad or not, but it was

kind of runny. I shouldn't have let my kids eat it.

Anyone recommend a good yogurt maker?

Robbie

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