Re: How do we know if we can advance with our foods?

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Well, if you're using nuts in a form other than nut butters or finely ground nut

flours..... it's too soon at five weeks. Too soon for cabbage family veggies,

too (broccoli).

Every kid is different, but my daughter still gets a little bit looser BM if she

eats more than just a very small amount of very well cooked broccoli or

cauliflower, and she's been on SCD since last May.

Taking a step back is not a bad idea. How can you tell when to move on? Well,

that's tough.... but you just have to reflect on what symptoms you started the

diet for.... and try to assess any progress in that department.

I think the majority of SCD kids need to be on all peeled and cooked foods....

and probably no cabbage family veggies.... no beans or whole nuts.... for at

LEAST three month, if not longer. I personally waited six months with my

daughter and still had to use caution.

Patti

How do we know if we can advance with our foods?

We decided to start back at the beginning, thinking that we may have

progressed too

quickly. The only reason I think that is that it's been 5 weeks and my son

still can't

tolerate honey (or other salicylates). He gets very frustrated over nothing

and cries and

does a lot of explosions. He seems to be fine if we stick with a

low-salicylate diet, but as

soon as we give him honey or zucchini or too many bananas, he starts to act

up. (This is

the same as it has been for 2 years on the Feingold Diet--so nothing new, but

we thought

we'd see some improvement over 5 weeks.) It's hard doing this without honey.

Since we didn't have any digestive problems like loose bowels or anything, I

thought he

was digesting his food just fine, so we moved right to advanced foods like

nuts, brocolli

etc. He seemed to be doing okay ...

But, I've been reading more on this group and on the pecanbread website

(excellent, BTW)

and I'm wondering if we should go back to the stage 1 or 2 foods. What do you

all think?

And how do we know that we can more to the next stage of foods (in the absence

of

digestive issues)? Do you think we were okay, or should we go back and cut out

nuts and

nut butters?

Thanks,

Eileen