SCD diet

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There are a couple of hundred messages from a handful of parents (including me)

that discussed the SCD diet route in the archives. Do you know how to search

the archives? If you go to the actual website for the group

and click on " messages "

you'll see the search engine for the group right up on top. There is a search

even on the home page but a bit harder to find as it's lower on the right side

of the page. It works for messages older than a few months old (one of the

reasons we want to move to BigTent)

Like anything if your child for medical reasons needs to be on such a strict

diet than you have to do what you have to do. Here's a list of what your child

would be able to eat on this diet...and in just about all cases if you don't see

it here on this list it's not allowed:

* Foods to eat

o Fresh and frozen vegetables and legumes

o Fresh, raw, or dried fruits

o Fresh or frozen meats, poultry, fish, eggs

o Natural cheeses, homemade yogurt, dry curd cottage cheese

Limited sugar allowed on this diet... the only sweetener allowed is honey.

This is a full list of " legal " and " illegal " foods on this (again very strict)

diet

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/legal/legal_illegal_a-c.htm

If not medically recommended I personally would (of course) not recommend such a

limiting strict diet to " try it " as a first step for a growing child as there

are other much more simpler things we've found to work (like the right formula

of fish oils and now nutriiveda both of which you can consume with a normal diet

if one wanted) which are benign and simple and relatively inexpensive to try.

As always make sure that the child is also receiving the appropriate therapies

for his or her diagnosis and if school age that the child is provided with

appropriate placement. The brain responds to multiple stimuli and to address

the multifaceted communication impairments the best approach in my opinion is a

multifaceted approach.

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