bf infant w/ multiple allergies, mom w/ questions

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Hi,

I have a six month old baby boy that has been miserable. He was

born early and put on a vent and IV antibiotics. He is strictly

breast fed still at this point. He has reflux and seems to have

multiple food sensitivities (to things I'm eating).

If I eat anything other than turkey, chk, brown rice and sweet

potatoes I have a very fussy baby on my hands whose skin breaks out

and he has blood and mucus in his diapers. As long as I'm just

eating those four foods he is much more cheerful, his skin clears up

and he'll have no blood in his diapers but I haven't been able to

totally get rid of the mucus.

I have found references to the SCD diet helping heal a leaky gut

that leads to multiple food allergies but these are very scanty

(even in Elaines book) and seem unconclusive. Is there anyone here

that has had experience with this they can tell me about? I am

pretty desperate as I can't keep eating just this (SCD sounds good

in comparison)but any attempts to add back in other foods have made

him miserable. I don't want to damage his digestive tract any more.

I also have two older kids with chronic constipation and attention

problems that I'm wondering if this diet would help as well. My six

year old has developed terrible behavior and trouble sleeping (she

gets scared and can't sleep) within the last year and I'm wondering

if it could have to do with the status of her gut.

Here are my questions:

In BTVC lack of diareah is used as the signal for when you can add

new foods. For kids who are constipated, is it when their

constipation clears?

For me with the bf infant, would I be waiting for his runny stools

to clear before adding new foods?

If I do the SCD diet is there a chance it could help heal my baby's

digestive tract? If so, how?

Do you know of anyone who has had experience with this situation?

What meats are allowed on the introductory phase? I know that beef

and chicken are because of the suggested menue in BTVC but are any

others allowed in that initial phase?

(I tried starting this last week before I got the book but my baby

doesn't tolerate grape or apple juice, beef, cheese or eggs and I

was starving on just chicken and carrot soup. Any suggestions for

anything else allowed on this initial phase?)

I went looking for the dry curd cottage cheese or farmers cheese

here. I found a cheese put out by Dona called Cotija at Wal-

Mart. The manager of that section said it was basically the same

thing as farmers cheese. It comes in a firm circle. The

ingredients are cultured pasturized milk and skim milk, sea salt and

enzymes. There are 0 sugars ad 0 carbs in it. Does this sound like

the right stuff?

Do you have any ideas on being successful with this diet with a junk

food craving 14 year old? I had thought of maybe starting with what

I now know is the " nut diet " but it sound like that is just taking

the long road if you end up having to go back to the beginning at

some point anyway.

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated! I have spent

many hours searching for answers for my baby and my older kids but

so far we've only run into dead ends.

Thank you,

Kara