Re: Redoing Intro

[Guest guest]

Have you tried the oil of oregano or the olive leaf extract for his rash.

If you suspect yeast, that might help.

Meleah

Redoing Intro

> We have been on SCD since 2-1-03 but there have seemed to be

> bothersome things that just don't go away. Last summer we

> began taking our 3 boys to a DAN! office that mostly uses

> homeopathics to see if we could get a handle on it. I'll

> stick to my oldest son in this post. First, never been

> diagnosed on the spectrum (although his father is a

> self-diagnosed Aspie). He is 16yo and wants to sleep all

> the time. So, mid January we started the intro again (my

> sons say for the third time--I really don't remember!).

> This time we are going super slow with introducing foods, as

> I thought perhaps I had never done it properly. This boy

> tends more toward constipation, but he says he has a BM

> every day (when I have collected samples for stool samples

> they seem rather hard). That's why we have possibly

> introduced things too rapidly before because no diarrhea.

>

> Anyway, he has always liked to eat lots and lots of cheese

> and peanut butter. So, doing the intro was a way of pulling

> those and although the rest of us have added cheese back in

> he has not. The symptom that started a few days after

> starting the intro is red hands on the top and up his

> fingers. Sometimes it cracks and starts bleeding. Some

> days they look a little better, but still there. Can this

> be die off? (Continually for over a month?) I suspect yeast

> from his early years of living on antibiotics. (Although a

> stool test did not show it.) We did the garlic/carrot for

> a couple weeks at the end of 2006 and again after we started

> the intro, but haven't gone on to other natural

> anti-fungals. I gave him several bottles of Candex a couple

> of years ago.

>

> Has anyone else had this persistent red rash on hands and

> found anything that helps (our daughter who has UC also gets

> the red hands).

>

> Thanks for any insights anyone can offer.

>

> Rhonda

>

>

>

>

> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

I think it's possible that the rash is die-off... but it's really hard to know.

I'd say this is not a typical response.... but everyone is different. If it's

die-off, it should be temporary. Activated charcoal tablets or capsules, in

between meals, help soak up toxins.

I honestly would suggest you not put peanut butter back in.... I would try a

different nut butter. Peanuts are really legumes, anyway. We have just been

finding that a lot of the kids do better once peanut butter is pulled out.

Almond butter? Hazelnut butter? Macadamia butter? All more expensive, of

course.... but better choices.

So, are you also doing any of the homeopathic remedies? Other supplements?

Anything else new?

By the way, all three of my typically-developing boys (now adults) wanted to

" sleep all the time " when they were 16. I don't know what it is about that

age.... but they're really good at sleeping (and surly monosyllabic responses).

Patti... one of several list moderators.

Redoing Intro

We have been on SCD since 2-1-03 but there have seemed to be

bothersome things that just don't go away. Last summer we

began taking our 3 boys to a DAN! office that mostly uses

homeopathics to see if we could get a handle on it. I'll

stick to my oldest son in this post. First, never been

diagnosed on the spectrum (although his father is a

self-diagnosed Aspie). He is 16yo and wants to sleep all

the time. So, mid January we started the intro again (my

sons say for the third time--I really don't remember!).

This time we are going super slow with introducing foods, as

I thought perhaps I had never done it properly. This boy

tends more toward constipation, but he says he has a BM

every day (when I have collected samples for stool samples

they seem rather hard). That's why we have possibly

introduced things too rapidly before because no diarrhea.

Anyway, he has always liked to eat lots and lots of cheese

and peanut butter. So, doing the intro was a way of pulling

those and although the rest of us have added cheese back in

he has not. The symptom that started a few days after

starting the intro is red hands on the top and up his

fingers. Sometimes it cracks and starts bleeding. Some

days they look a little better, but still there. Can this

be die off? (Continually for over a month?) I suspect yeast

from his early years of living on antibiotics. (Although a

stool test did not show it.) We did the garlic/carrot for

a couple weeks at the end of 2006 and again after we started

the intro, but haven't gone on to other natural

anti-fungals. I gave him several bottles of Candex a couple

of years ago.

Has anyone else had this persistent red rash on hands and

found anything that helps (our daughter who has UC also gets

the red hands).

Thanks for any insights anyone can offer.

Rhonda

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com

[Guest guest]

-Two of my kids get this red rash. I tell them to reduce the amount of

hand washing to after the bathroom and before you eat(little bit of OCD

here). Then I use cocoa butter lotion to treat, and make sure they

drink lots of water. It seems to be a dryness issue with them. I've

heard coconut oil works well as well, I 've just never tried it myself.-

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>.

>

> Has anyone else had this persistent red rash on hands and

> found anything that helps (our daughter who has UC also gets

> the red hands).

>

> Thanks for any insights anyone can offer.

>

> Rhonda

>