new to scd- help with Autistic 5 yr old!! Please

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Hi Everyone,

This is my second attempt at SCD. I tried back in February- long

story.

I'm committed to making it work this time---

Joey is 5. Diagnosed with autism at age 2. Diagnosed with nodular

lymphoid hyperplasia( Dr. wakefield/MMR stuff) Had chronic

yeast/bacterial overgrowth for almost 3 years.

Joey's diet has been GFCF since age 2.6. This gave us initial

improvements.......behaviorally- but gut never really improved. 4-6

loose muchy stools daily since forever.

Here's the clincher......He is incredibly picky. Picky doens't even

describe him actually. I can't beg or bargain with him to even try a

new food that isn't visually appealing to him.

Before I started SCD 6 days ago- Joey ate:

nutbutter/fruit preserve sandwiches( on rice bread)

pancakes, rice flour muffins, fries,chips,rice cakes...see a trend!

Fruit! raw. grapes,raisens, apples,pears,oranges,BANANAS

he did love ANDI bars. ( Special Diets for Special kids

makes these rice protein bars.)

he went through a raw pecan(smoked and salted)stage

I think that's it. occasional chicken nuggets

So I'll just break down the last week on scd for you starting with

day 1.

Day 1:

Joey ate: I yellow banana. Tried one bite of chicken pancake- spit

out when he realized it wasn't regular pancake. Ran screaming from

mini hamburger patty.

Drank lots of water. Gave charcoal and magnesium citrate. No poops

all day.

Went to sleep 6:30 pm- midnight woke sick. Throwing up off and on

for about 7 hours.

Day 2:

Still had fever. Drank 2 glasses of dilluted grape juice- threw up

immediately. Sofa bound all day. Fed him later in day small kids

bowl of pureed/cooked pear sauce with 1/2 camomille capsule.

had 2 epsom salt baths.HAd huge black/green poop very runny that

night. Ate 2 tasty herb crackers before bed.

Day 3:

Joey slept through night! woke at 8 , immediately asked for juice.

threw it up immediately.Sofa bound most of day. Two naps today.Fever

remained.

later in day finally got him to eat small amount of pear sauce. gave

him charcoal capsule and mag citrate.had one epsom salt bath. slept

through night. No poops.

Day 4:

Needed to be carried out of bed this morning. No energy. Drank small

amounts of water on/off all morning. Offered scrambled egg/i tiny

hamburger patty and tasty herb cracker- refused it all.

Joey found ( don't know where) JIF simply. ( lower sugar JIF)

gobbled a couple fists full before I could get to him.

Later found an apple/raw/ gobbled it.

Gave pear sauce to get him to take his chamomile capsule/charcoal

and melatonin.

Gave 1 spotty banana before bed- he was so excited to get that!

He had a nasty runny black pooop late i day.

DAY 5:

Joey drank a little more dilluted juice than I would like today. 3

glasses.

He ate and enjoyed banana/almond flour pancakes this morning. 2

bananas. Small amounts of pear sauce with his vitamin/mag

citrate/melatonin and chamomile. Offered eggs/patty/veggies - ran

away from them.

Later that night ate and seemed to like eggless PB cookies.I offered

fried carrots.....he refused. Got him to kiss.....got him to lick a

few times . At this point he saw where I was hiding the bananas

(linin closet) and I was saying carrot first- then banana. He tried

so hard to eat it- just couldn't bring himself to do it. Licking was

the best he could do. No banana at that point.

He chewed up and spit out 4 chicken pancakes that evening. getting

more mad with each. He thought they were those banana pancakes......

No poops today.Cranky and aggressive today.

Day 6:

Joey woke at 4 am this morning...despite wanting to stay up late

night before( 8:45 pm)

Had a big black poop early. Had another, yet smaller, poop around

8:30 am. He ate:

1 spotty banana

8-10 eggless pb cookies

Tried and spit out violently the squach puree( I tried it too- yuck!)

I made and offered carrot( with 1/4 cup chicken broth) sneaky veggie

pancakes- REFUSED!

Found- again...must have been in the back of fridge....jar of

sunflower butter......ate that down.

DAy 7:

Big black runny poop in the a.m.

Joey ate banana pancakes for breakfast ( lots) and the few that were

left ate a couple hours later. PLus yellow banana.

He did eat about 10 chicken nuggets( fried in FRY DADDY fryer) with

safflower oil/salted.

Offered cooked carrots....hamburger patty.....fried chicken bites

without almond flour breading....all refused without even touching.

I really feel frustrated......especially when I read all these

newbies describing how their child is happily or even unhappily ,

but still eating the allowed foods.

No doubt he needs this diet. And I'm not gonna be arrogant enough to

say he's the pickiest kid ever.....but there isn't one food on the

intro diet he would eat. Not one. He's got major sensory issues.

Major. Never liked eggs/veggies/meats(except chicken nuggets)

bless you for reading this very long post. I just wanted to lay all

the info on the table so any who were kind enough to read might have

the best chance of helping out with all the information. Thanks in

advance......I'm desperate.

Sincerely,

Beth Mom to Joey- autism SCD for 7 days