Week 3 into Diet - Some Problems & No Formed Stools...

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We started the diet on Thanksgiving for Ben, and did the intro diet

for 3 days. He had his first " trophy " on Day 3, and we were so

excited. Well, we eased him into the next week and started adding

things slower, including the nut butters. First cashew butter, and we

still had formed stool. Then almond butter. Well, ever since then we

have haven't had the trophies (now about 2 weeks without one). Even

the days without it, we still don't see the trophies, granted on

those days he might be getting the almond flour, in the form of

chicken fingers or the Digestive Wellness Almond Cookies (egg free).

We started No-Fenol this week (bad issues with salicylates), as well

as epsom salt baths (just 1/8 cup in bath, as he is very sensitive),

and he seems to do well with both of them. We already use the

activated charcoal, which our DAN doc said only use 1-2tx per week.

Occassionally with the worse stools, we see bad behavior with it

(used to be that way ALL THE TIME), but now MOST of the time even

with the looser stools (mostly light brown/tan/gold in color) his

disposition is fantastic! It's amazing. Now today he is " out of it " a

bit. He seems to have gone through several " die-offs " since we

started a few weeks ago...could that be the case? BRIGHT Red cheeks,

silly crazy behavior, lots of spinning. The epsom salt baths seem to

take away the red cheeks and calm him down considerably. It has been

this past week that we have seen a lot of the red cheeks and bad

behavior with it. He has bad allergies to dairy and eggs, so I made

the SCD goat yogurt last night (ready for tomorrow, I hope)...would

this possibly help with the looser stools? How much should I start

with? I am so worried about giving it to him, with the dairy issues,

but it is a different casein.

We just sent off the OAT & Yeast & Culture Sensivitiy Test with Great

Plains. Has anyone else done this particular test? If so, what did it

tell you? We aren't doing Nystatin anymore, but Ben seems to be doing

well on MCT Oil. Our new DAN doctor mentioned Dyflucan and Valtrex

(Ben's viral titers are " through the roof " ) possibly. I know the risk

with the liver checks, and all. Anyone else doing either of these? I

guess we will see... Maybe the MCT Oil is also causing die-off? Last

night he had a really BAD stool, all up his back, gold colored, much

looser, and smelled like vinegar. It actually smelled like the ones

we sent off for heavy metal stool tests in August, the ones that came

back with very high levels of antimony (fire retardent), mercury,

lead and arsenic. Hmmm, any thoughts here? We aren't detoxing heavy

metals now (used to be on glutathione gel and aerosol...very hard on

Ben), but I did read that the epsom salt baths pull out the metals

too, right? Anyone know what the vinegar smell is????

Any ideas are much appreciated....

:-)

Ben, Age 3