Intro and question, anyone else's child have ulcerative colitis?

March 26, 2007

Hi all,

My son (just under 3 years old) was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis

2 weeks ago tomorrow, and we were lucky enough to be told about this

diet the same day of the diagnosis and started it immediately. It's

been rough having it all thrown at us out of the blue, I have been

really trying to follow the diet religiously but have messed up

several times. Anyway, we have high hopes that we can heal his gut

before we want to resort to drugs his GI doctor wants us to give him.

We plan to start the intro diet tonight, since we didn't do that in

the beginning.

Anyone else have a small child with ulcerative colitis? I can see

that this list is primarily for Autistic children, our son has no

Autistic symptoms, just the colitis. We haven't been able to find

anyone with such a young child with this illness as of yet. We have

no family history, although we are of Jewish heritage and have been

told that puts us at higher risk statistically. My husband and I

believe that our son developed this as a result of early antibiotic

use/overuse, but our GI doctor dismissed that immediately, so we

don't have a professional on our side who believes in the power of

diet to heal. We sort of feel " out there " on our own right now.

March 27, 2007

Hi I read the post on your son with UC... my daughter was diagnosed with

eosinophilic colitis at 1 1/2. I think you are right on the mark with SCD, and

looking atthe antibiotic yeast connection to it all. We were told to take our

daughter off all food ( literally) wean her and feed her a medical formula. We

chose this instead. If you live in an old house, ( before 1978) or if your

child spends time in an old building ( school, church, etc) I highly reccomend

looking into a provoked urine heavy metals test. Our daughter turned out to

have lead toxicity, and removing the lead source, as well as SCD and

eventually chelating her has helped a lot. Good luck.

Ellen

mother to Emma SCD since 7/06

eosinophililc colitis and lead toxicity

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