Newbie here with questions on starting diet with food allergies

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Hi,

I'm thinking of starting the scd diet and have a few questions about

how to get it going. I've read the book, browsed online, and read

some archives here. The diet will be for myself (celiac and food

allergies) and my ds, age 4 (food allergies and possible celiac),

and possibly my dh (IBS) if I can get him to.

My understanding is that by following the scd diet, food allergies

will go away over time because the diet will heal the gut. I'm

referring to delayed food allergies (Igg), not anaphylactic

reactions. However, I also read that people with allergies to eggs,

for example, avoid them on the diet until well into it and symptoms

have subsided. So which do I do?

To be more specific, here's my story: long-time undiagnosed celiac,

now GF for 2 1/2 years. Lots of gut damage done by celiac. Definite

improvement in health by going gf, but still not really healthy. 6

months ago, I did an ELISA blood allergy test, and tested positive

to almost every fruit and vegetable, plus beans, eggs, some spices,

etc. Basically I tested allergic to everything that was in my normal

diet, which was ovo-lacto vegetarian. Which indicates a very leaky

gut.

A few months ago, I went on a very limited 5 day rotation diet, with

only foods I was not allergic to, including some exotic tubers from

www.specialfoods.com . The diet was helpful and I was feeling more

energetic and healthy than in a long time. And then....I got

pregnant. My new diet went out the window, except for gf and a few

foods I really knew bothered me. For various reasons, I don't think

the rotation diet will work for me pregnant (I'm 3 mos), and a

fellow celiac suggested the scd diet.

My son, age 4, is super allergic to soy in any form, including

lecithin, vitamin E, etc. He also tested allergic to eggs, and when

we got those out of his diet, the cradle cap and skin bumps finally

went away. He tested ok to everything else, but is a very picky

eater. After we got the soy out of him at age 2 1/2 yrs, he seemed

pretty normal.

But last year he got a strange bug or something and had diahrea for

about 3 weeks. Docs found nothing. It finally abated, but now he

poops pretty much every time he uses the bathroom, instead of the

once a day he did previously. And they seem not really formed, nor

really loose, and the color of infant poop (that orangy color). Ds

is also thin, complains of tummy aches periodically, and seems lower

in energy than the other kids. But any pediatrician would look at

him and say he's normal. I just have a funny mommy-gut feeling that

something is off.

My son eats gf too. We were unable to test him for celiac when I

found out about mine, as he was breastfeeding then, and could have

tested positive from ME. And we knew something was up, so we made

him gf (we found out about the soy later).

I won't go into dh's trouble, as he really doesn't want any help,

lol. But this looks like a major diet, and I'm thinking if I do it

for myself, I might as well do it for ds too, cuz I think it might

help him, and if we're going to all the trouble, then maybe dh will

hop onboard.

So, my first question is, if we avoid eggs, what do we eat in the

beginning diet? I can substitute for it in baked goods, but what

about breakfast?

And what about the fruits and veggies I'm allergic to? Do I eat them

anyway?

Also, I react very poorly to yoghurt and acidophilus. How do I start

that? It's not the dairy. I even tried acidophilus tablets for 3

days, and have never felt so awful and literally close to death as I

did then....(shiver).

And finally, since I've gotten pregnant, every time I eat chicken I

get cramps and diahrea and nausea. I was eating it ok before preg.

I'm willing to try it again, just not terribly optimistic. Is there

an alternative?

Thank you for reading this far! I look forward to hearing from you

Merika