Intro diet questions.....I want to get started!

June 17, 2006

Hi. I posted last week about my daughter, 2 1/2yrs old with

Eosinophilic colitis. I really want to start this diet... I have

read and reread BTVC, and all the suppport stuff on eliane's site.

My questions are this:

I am nervous about the intro diet.. not becuase my daughter will

have a problem.. her diet is so limited now, that when we are

eating anything past the intro, she is going to think she is the

luckiest girl alive! BUT she is VERY allergic to eggs, and has

very bad reactions to milk and milk products, as well as goat

products, and can't eat more than one serving of turkey without

reaction... and no chicken at all... so what is left on the intro

diet? Beef, and some grape jello... WE can do two days of

this....done 36hour clear liquid only for scopes, but 5 days or

more.. that is gettting a bit dicey. And then I get confused about

adding foods.. I have kept a log before, but at that time people

were telling me to wait 2 weeks for each food.. and the we would be

basically on the intro diet of nothing for , uh, up to three

weeks.. Not working, not safe IMO. She is actually fairly mild in

the whole scheme of things, due to the fact that I recognized food

to be the issue early on, and she has eaten a very restricted diet,

( as have I because I am breastfeeding) so muhc so that this deit,

when we get past the intro, will seem liberal to us.. wow, we can

eat fruit! Anyway, my other question is that at present she can't

do eggs or milk, and a lot of the the recipes need yogurt and

eggs, and I know there are the substitues that are listed differnt

places, but they are for baked goods, and many recipes are for non-

baked things. Anyway, I would love to be in touch with someone out

there doing this diet w/o eggs and dairy, so maybe I can get some

ideas. Oh yeah, a random quesion.. applegate farms organic

hotdogs... have lactic acid starter.. not from milk, and sodium

lactate from beets.. legal or illegal? and also.. anyone used this

diet to reduce inflammation outside the G-I tract, say in the

kidneys? Just wondering.. I want my husband to do this with us, he

has a kidney condition, so I was hopeing to get a little leverage.

Thanks so much!

Ellen

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