Re:How to handle phenol, oxalate and other sensitive on SCD

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Hi ,

We also came with sensitivities to phenols and casein. My daughter could not

tolerate the enzymes either.

If you are like us, hopefully as the gut disbiosis resolves these strange

allergies and sensitivities will resolve too. IN Elaine's book she explains

how many of these strange sensitivities are caused by the bad gut flora. See

page 54 to 55. For us this was the case.

We can now tolerate foods high in phenols. It took time thought. At first we

avoided large amounts of these foods. This was the only way to avoid the rash

and tantrums that resulted. We also rotated foods the best we could. Trying to

be mindful of the foods that add up to causes a reaction.

To calm us, and help with the toxins, we soaked in baths with Epson salts, and

took Activated Charcoal (one hour before and one hour after meals). This

helped, during this transition.

To get our gut flora back into balance we did introductory diet for a minimum of

two days, and tried our best to eat foods that where not too hard to digest.

The stages at www.pecanbread.com<http://www.pecanbread.com/> (under food

preparation) are helpful guidelines.

We also found it important to use the goat yogurt. I found that this food was

magic for us. We came casein intolerant and terrified of this yogurt, but seem

to be able to tolerate this special yogurt. If you are not using it, you may

want to try it. Some have to build up slowly to avoid die off reactions, that

are often mistaken as food intolerance to it.

Hope this helps. Remember that the tortoise wins this SCD race and not the

Hare. When we jumped to too advanced foods we paid. Eating easy to digest

foods, was actually the majority of the battle. Good luck!

Antoinette and family of five (SCD 2/06) ibd, ibs, cd, add, adhd, autism,

seizures and more/ no meds/ only SCD safe supplements