Re: Starting the Diet and no Changes

November 7, 2001

>>> My son has begun the gfcf diet. He has 20 days in it. I don´t see

any changes. He stopped having diarrhea and bad odor but now he is

having soft stools again. He is taking Serenaid. And we have seen

self injurious behaviours he had never had before starting this diet.

Will he improve after more weeks? Thank you very much. Carmen.

Hi Carmen,

20 days is about the 3 week mark. So I gues you have been 100% casein

free for that long. If not, keep track of when you actually think it

was 100% casein free, not just sort of casein free. I would

like " stopped having diarrhea and bad odor " would be a positive

improvement right there. Maybe you are not seeing the leaps and

bounds some people note (although definitely lots of people see the

slow progression as well) because of a possible yeast or bacteria

problem. With resuming of soft stools that may be the bad bugs

readjusting (I'm guessing here). When I tried SerenAid, it worked

much better than I thought, but I found it took a good 3 capsules to

do the job (with casein food). At least 2 capsules. But if you are

removing casein on purpose and using one, that should be a good

safeguard. The self-injurious behaviors sound like some withdrawal or

possible die-off (if we are back at the bug problem). If your son is

more gluten sensitive than casein sensitive (or soy or corn

sensitive) you may not see better results until those are removed.

For gluten, allow 3 months of being gluten-free.

Could you provide some more information on his diet, any gut problems

he has had, and any other supplements? That might help with more

ideas. Feel free to write me off-list if you don't want to tie it up

working through this.

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