Food Testing for - Honey is BAD for him

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I took to be " interro tested " today. They test for food

sensitivites, nutritional deficiences, amino acids, neurotransmitters,

candida (yeast) etc. It was absolutely amazing. is on the SCD

diet, and I pretty much have the legal and illegal foods memorized. As

she was testing, I would think " this will be bad " or " this will be good "

and bingo, the SCD lists were right on with one big exception - honey.

is severely intolerant to honey. We sweeten his almond milk (which

is OK according to the test) with honey.

When we first started the SCD, we followed the beginner's diet and tubed

all his fluids (Welch's grape juice watered down) for a week. 's

seizures died off big time. Me being me, I wanted him to drink by mouth,

so I tried the watered down grape juice sweetened with honey. He drank

that, but the seizures came back. I did not relate it to the honey,

which is a legal SCD food, I just though it was a fluke that his

seizures died off - thought maybe it was the shock of diet change or the

fact that he was so darn skinny that his Keppra was more effective due

to weight loss.

Anyway, back to the present. had a gastro bug this week, so he

wouldn't eat or drink so we gave him fluids by g-tube, not bothering to

sweeten with honey of course. His seizures again have died off to barely

anything. So no more honey for my honey. Today he is back to eating

fine, so the tummy bug is gone. It is 4:00pm and he should have had two

clusters of spasms by now, but nada.

It was also interesting to see the amino acids and neurotransmitters

related to seizure activity were all deficient for . His vitamins

are fine, his minerals are really bad. He has wicked candida, and only

one of about 20 remedies tested OK for him (Organika Colloidal Silver),

and of the probitotics they had in the system, none tested OK. I brought

the one I use (no bifidus as per SCD) and it was fine. Oh, and his

mercury is through the roof. They tested AMD, a chelator, but it was no

good. Mercury was the only bad heavy metal. I had the rhogan shot when I

was pregnant, so that is the only culprit I can think of as while he has

had some of his shots, supposedly none have mercury any more.

These reports will be faxed to his naturopath, so I am interested to see

what she proposes. I am hoping that clearing up the wicked candida will

allow his body to absorb minerals vs. giving him a whack of mineral

supplements. The amino acids are probably a different story, as well as

the neuro stuff (GABA, dopamine, taurine, l-dopa, l-glutamine,

tryptophan).

They also tested his AEDs - Keppra passed, Lamictal (which I just

started him on late April) fails miserably - he has the chewable 5mg

which have sugar. No sugar of any kind passed for him.

Anyway, I think it's probaby the best $200 I've spent, and of course the

best thing of all is reduced seizures - possibly due to no honey. I

especially like it because honey is so annoyingly sticky and gets on

everything (sounds silly but every time I touch the container it's

sticky)!!

I'll update as to what the ND proposes and also 's seizure activity

- maybe this is a fluke but we'll see.

Sharon Cruikshank