Re: Re: Newbie with a million questions. Please help me.

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Hi Eileen

We don't have much verity. Lots of squash burgers , green beans, mangoes

,bananas and pearsaus to sweeten things with I have even used cooked mango to

sweeten things. We make nut muffins without eggs and sweeten with fruit and put

some squash it it to help it hold to get her. I don't think he does real well

with it yet so we dint do it very often. He also eats any kind of meet but

prefers the burgers which i feel better about there is so much squash in it they

are orange. We had to build up to that but now he won't eat it any other way. I

make soup and blend up all the ingredients so he doesn't have to feel them in

his mouth he hates it I have him drink 1/4 cup at at a time it seems to do

wonders for his bowl es. I know this is not what you wee hoping for nothing fun

to eat but it takes time I am seeing the progres when I go back through the

diary I see we have came a long ways. MY son has huge texture issues so we lack

verity but are making progress. If I can

stress any thing it would be not to eat any thing raw If it takes a year for us

to get to raw fruit I am ok with it I don't like it it makes it very hard but I

am seeing progress.

My daughter is also on this diet she can eat a little more she can have

tomatoes which makes it hard be case I have to make it for her when he brother

is gone.

Any ways hope this helps

eptak1 wrote:

Hi .

Uh oh--it sounds like we're making a lot of mistakes, too. After a few days on

the intro

diet, I jumped right into more advanced foods for everyone. I thought it would

be okay

since we didn't have diahrea or anything like that, but I guess I was wrong.

It seems like half the recipes have honey in them. What do you eat? I'm going to

try to

sweeten with pear sauce, like Patti recommended.

On the upside, I am feeling more energetic! :-)

Eileen

> Ilene,

> For yourself, increased gas and so forth is more than likely due to die off.

As the bad

pathogens are leaving the body, they will give off an increase of toxins. Are

you using an

SCD legal probiotic? It is very important to be providing the gut with the

necessary good

flora to replace the bad as it dies off. I would suspect that the eczema is also

contributed

to die off, but I can't say for sure. I have discovered in the past week that

eczema is allergy

related(sensitivity may be more appropriate terminology), but it can be food,

environmental, or both. My toddler broke out with eczema almost a year ago. It

started

out mild, got increasingly worse, then began to improve when we removed grains.

He

recently broke out in a horrible case of it all over his body, and no food

changes had been

made. I then found out that it can be environmentally related as well through a

lady who

told me that they discovered their son's eczema was triggered by carpet

cleaners. I

realized that my

> son's eczema has never been on his face, his diaper area, or ahdns. These are

places

where clothing never touches him. I switched to Dreft, and rewashed all of his

clothing and

bedding in it. The eczema started to clear up. It is almost gone now. I was

telling this to a

friend who is a pediatric nurse. She said that she recommends parents use All

Clear rather

than Dreft is they're trying to determin an eczema trigger because Dreft does

still have

some perfuming agents in it. Remember too, that her eczema may not be triggered

by the

wheat, grains, sugars, ect. I could be triggered by an SCD legal food that her

body just

doesn't tolerate right now. She may never tolerate it, or she may heal to the

point of being

able to ingest it some day. That's why it is so important to keep a food journal

of what she

eats, her bowel habits, eczema, ect. Hopefully, you can find the trigger for

her. I really

don't know what to say about the honey situation, but a more experienced SCDer

can

> help with that.

> Meleah

> Newbie with a million questions. Please help me.

>

> Hi. My family started SCD two and a half weeks ago. Mostly, it was for my son

(7) who

> has salicylate sensitivity (we discovered this by being on the Feingold

Diet--which we've

> been on for 2 years) but I thought my daughter's (she's 5) sporadic eczema

might be

> helped by it and my recent food sensitivities (intermittent reflux,

intermittent hives on

my

> bottom and sometimes my head--I think maybe it's a salicylate issue, but I'm

not sure).

> So we all decided to heal our guts and now I have a ton of questions.

>

> 1) ME: I used to vary between normal stools and slight constipation, but

generally

normal

> stools. I have had increasing gas issues in the past year, but I it seemed to

be related to

> either wheat or milk, so I had cut them both down with pretty good results. So

I'm

> surprised that I am now having major digestive issues: a lot of gas and pale

stools. Are

> the pale stools normal? I know they can be a sign of serious problems, but is

it common

> in the early days of SCD? Why do I suddenly have a lot of gas?

>

> 2) My daughter: Right after we started, she got a HORRENDOUS flare up of

eczema. It

has

> always been pretty rare, but if it flared up, it was a small rough, pink, 1

inch patch on

her

> wrist or something. Now, her hands are totally raw and boken skin and a little

bleeding.

> Now it's gotten somewhat better, but they still hurt. I tried putting Aquaphor

on--that

> hurt. Olive oil was ok, but she doesn't like having something on her hands. I

read that

> there is a connection between the gut and eczema, but does this make sense?

>

> 3) My son: he is really sensitive to salicylates and he hasn't been able to

tolerate honey

> (not even tupelo). I've been using " 100% pure dextrose " since I read that

Elaine Gottchall

> said it is probably okay. I want to move towards honey, but we tried it last

night (after 2

> and half weeks on SCD) and he had a crying fit tonight. So I'm a little

discouraged. His

> behavior (which is his " reaction " ) has gotten worse on SCD--which I know often

happens.

> I know some of this must be die-off. (He does " explosions " a lot of the

time--definitely

> out of place) and this has increased a lot. How long can I expect this to

last? Also, could

> the yogurt be making his explosions worse? And has anyone had experience with

> reversing a salicyate sensitivity? I be happier if we could do honey, for

sure, but tomato

> sauce would be divine! I'm sure that every person is different--and someone

just wrote

> that we can't know someone's gut status, and I understand that. But is there

any idea of

a

> time frame for *some* improvement?

>

> Thank you soooo much! I know this was long!

>

> Eileen

>

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