Restricted low carb SCD

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Is anyone doing a restricted low carbohydrate version of the SCD? I am wondering if this would be better for us in these early months to help our daughter progress more quickly. I wonder if we need to look at this issue as possibly our daughter may not even be able to absorb the mono-saccharides well at this point.

Would it speed her healing if we went this route--and if we do, how do we do it? Do we try to limit fruit or avoid certain ones? Which vegetables are better to eat and which should be avoided? It would be helpful to know how to do this. I know that I get so sleepy if I eat fruit of any kind, and other than pumpkin pie I made the other day, our daughter isn't eating any honey, nut products, and no squash. The squash made her gassy and bloated so I stopped cooking it for the family.

Our daughter rarely drinks juice,although she drank a lot when we started out. She is trying to be careful as we are trying to eliminate a chronic yeast problem. Most of her fruit is in her yogurt smoothie which is usually dripped yogurt, frozen dark sweet cherries, or cherries and frozen green grapes and legal vanilla and almond extract--one to two times a day. She eats bananas, dried apricots (not so much lately), grapes and some honeydew melon. She is afraid of strawberries and even blueberries (the seeds). The longer we are on this diet, the easier it is to see when something bothers her--and the blueberries were very hard on her the last time she had them.

Thanks, Lori

Daughter Crohn's 6 yr., SCD 4 1/2 months

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Yes, no yogurt or cheese for me, but that is because I built up a casein

sensitivity after 6 months eating a small amount (under 1/3 cup) dripped yogurt

nearly every day. Now my immune system won't tolerate yogurt or cheese -- I

develop severe and debilitating joint pain within a day, which makes a change

from my usual immune reaction of hives and respiratory distress [grin]. Still,

the joint pain is severe and incapacitating, equally difficult to endure.

So I don't eat dairy because of my immune system reactions, not because of the

carbohydrate content or because of the fat content, although that was also a

consideration for me at times.

I'll have to look at the nutritional analysis of yogurt and cheese again, to

remind myself how it ranks in carbohydrate content. I think it was relatively

high, but I'm not positive. This might be something those of us on lean carb SCD

should consider.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

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> > Is anyone doing a restricted low carbohydrate version of the SCD?  I am

wondering if this would be better for us in these early months to help our

daughter progress more quickly. I wonder if we need to look at this issue as

possibly our daughter may not even be able to absorb the mono-saccharides well

at this point. 

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> > Would it speed her healing if we went this route--and if we do, how do we do

it?  Do we try to limit fruit or avoid certain ones?  Which vegetables are

better to eat and which should be avoided?  It would be helpful to know how to

do this. I know that I get so sleepy if I eat fruit of any kind, and other than

pumpkin pie I made the other day, our daughter isn't eating any honey, nut

products, and no squash.  The squash made her gassy and bloated so I

stopped cooking it for the family.

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> > Our daughter rarely drinks juice,although she drank a lot when we started

out.  She is trying to be careful as we are trying to eliminate a chronic yeast

problem.  Most of her fruit is in her yogurt smoothie which is usually dripped

yogurt, frozen dark sweet cherries, or cherries and frozen green grapes and

legal vanilla and almond extract--one to two times a day.  She eats bananas,

dried apricots (not so much lately), grapes and some honeydew melon.  She is

afraid of strawberries and even blueberries (the seeds).  The longer we are on

this diet, the easier it is to see when something bothers her--and the

blueberries were very hard on her the last time she had them.

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> > Thanks, Lori 

> > Daughter Crohn's 6 yr., SCD 4 1/2 months 

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I'll have to look at the nutritional analysis of yogurt and cheese again, to remind myself how it ranks in carbohydrate content. I think it was relatively high, but I'm not positive. I thought cheese had almost no carbs, because all the lactose was eaten and strained out...? Yogurt would probably be higher in carbs because of the galactose, but you could make it low carb by dripping it, I would think. Peace =)Alyssa 16 yo UC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 75 mg 1x per dayPrednisone 30 mg 1x per day