butternut squash and yeast

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Hi everyone,

My 4 yo son has been on the SC diet since the day after Thanksgiving. For about

three weeks, we saw a huge improvement with his speech (he has apraxia - a

speech disorder), alot of his OCD-type behaviors were getting better and his

sense of humor was really shining through. For the past year, he has had

several bouts of yeast overgrowth and is currently on Diflucan for the second

time now. Well, last week, I started noticing alot of yeast-related behaviors

coming back - sitting upside down, rituals that had been eliminated coming back

etc.

I was reading through my email and someone mentioned that butternut squash fed

their child's yeast. It's pretty common knowledge that bananas feed yeast big

time but is butternut squash a big yeast feeder as well? My son has been eating

ALOT of pureed squash (several helpings at lunch and at dinner) because he

misses mashed potatoes and I thought that would be a good substitute for it.

He also started a cold a few days ago so I don't know if that is causing the

problems as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's so disheartening to see so much

progress in and then see him regress....

Thanks.

Judy

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[Guest guest]

Judy,

My son started the diet around thanksgiving as well. I

want to say that there was regression for my son while

he was sick. For my son it wasn't behavior, but he

went back to having loose stools for several days

while sick.

We opted to wait it out, and as soon as he was better,

his stools normalized.

So it is very common to have your child experience

some kind of regression while sick.

That being said, 'several' helpings will probably turn

him orange before too long. I'd limit it to about a

cup per meal. Squash doesn't agree with my kid, but we

have to stop him from eating all the applesauce in the

world. LOL.

B.

ASD son, RA self, SCD Nov. 2007

http://scdgirl.blogspot.com

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--- Judy Kochansky wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> My 4 yo son has been on the SC diet since the day

> after Thanksgiving. For about three weeks, we saw a

> huge improvement with his speech (he has apraxia - a

> speech disorder), alot of his OCD-type behaviors

> were getting better and his sense of humor was

> really shining through. For the past year, he has

> had several bouts of yeast overgrowth and is

> currently on Diflucan for the second time now.

> Well, last week, I started noticing alot of

> yeast-related behaviors coming back - sitting upside

> down, rituals that had been eliminated coming back

> etc.

>

> I was reading through my email and someone mentioned

> that butternut squash fed their child's yeast. It's

> pretty common knowledge that bananas feed yeast big

> time but is butternut squash a big yeast feeder as

> well? My son has been eating ALOT of pureed squash

> (several helpings at lunch and at dinner) because he

> misses mashed potatoes and I thought that would be a

> good substitute for it.

>

> He also started a cold a few days ago so I don't

> know if that is causing the problems as well.

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's so

> disheartening to see so much progress in and

> then see him regress....

>

> Thanks.

>

> Judy

>

>

>

>

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