Re: raw animal foods diet/ rash on knees?

October 19, 2001

Meg Where is the rash on your daughters knees? and does it burn or

itch? My Daughter use to have rashes behind her knees and they would

burn...it was getting so bad that she was getting them under her arm

pits. We tried a gluten free diet for 1 year no wheat, oats, barley

or rye. They went away... well then we found out about Treating the

grains. We have only used organic spelt that we grind and a little

rye and oats. We have found that she can have these but she has to

have butter, and raw veggies with it. It seems like if she has to

much dairy, or fruit it will also trigger it. In January we used the

rainbow diet for Candida. By doing this they cleared up. now we try

to have a balance of food for her to eat. We usually only have

grains for breakfast and sometimes at one of the other meals. Its

not the main part. i hope this helps.

My daughter is going to be 8 next month and when I hear of other

children having the same problem at the same age I wonder if

vacinations is a part of this????????

Barb

> I assume you eat all raw foods and not just animal foods, right? I

have

> tried cooking individual things while on a raw diet and I could see

> problems such as constipation, hives, gas, etc. with just about

anything

> I ate cooked, though starches always seemed to be the worst

offenders. I

> thought/hoped, however, that with the addition of lacto-fermented

foods

> at every meal that I would digest better. We always had our " kefir "

(I

> recently found out that what I had thought was kefir, from Body

Ecology,

> was not the real thing.. now we have real kefir) almost every day at

> lunch. I also would serve raw cider vinegar in water if we ever

indulged

> in anything cooked.

>

> I think I just expected/hoped for too much, too quick and I'm going

to

> have to take things a lot slower. It seemed like the first few weeks

> when I was just trying some of the raw fish and meat dishes and

> lacto-ferments and the bread once a day that the we were doing very

> well, though my youngest daughter has had a hives-like rash on her

face

> since we've started this. I'm going to try to go back to those

foods for

> a while and maybe try an occasional cooked meat on holidays or

> birthdays. I'm also getting a variety of grains soon so maybe it

will

> help if we don't have so much wheat.

October 19, 2001

It's interesting that you speak of the rash behind the knee.. I think I

only mentioned that she had hives on her face, but she used to have a

rash behind her knees. I believe it was while we were all-raw and I

associated it with a virus that was going around because some of the

other kids had it as well and it was at the same time that they had a

cold/flu bug. She's never been vaccinated.

I get hives inside my elbows after restaurant meals and I used to get it

when I would eat any cooked food, which probably would've included

improperly prepared grains. I haven't gotten that back since we've been

making the grains properly.

October 19, 2001

I read it as knees and maybe was thinking of knees when you said

rashes. Very interesting. I would like to eat more raw foods along

with the cooked but what do you fix for a meal when you were all raw?

Barb

October 19, 2001

Examples of Raw Meals

breakfast: granolas made with sprouted grains & dried fruits & soaked

seeds & nuts, lemon-kefir pudding, fruit, " chocolate " pudding cereal,

banana or cranberry cakes made with sprouted grains, dried fruit &

soaked & dried seeds & nuts, cheesecake

lunch (our main meal): sprouted lentils or mung beans with cheese and

dressing.. various versions such as taco salad, garlic & dill, etc. or

wild greens & cheese salads, sprouted grain crackers, peanut butter &

jelly sandwiches (we dehydrated peanut butter cookies and spread

homemade raw jam in between them); kefir

dinner (usually just a snack):.. fresh goat's milk, fruit, cheese,

dehydrated cookies made from sprouted grains, soaked nuts, honey &

sesame oil, crackers

October 19, 2001

I have had candida problems for a very long time. I remember as a child I would

have hideous rashes behind my knees as well as the inside of my arms and my

hands. To top it off I went to a school where we had a dress code and had to

wear skirts!!

In high school I went on the diet of no sugar, fruit, yeasts and fungus for

three months and my candida rashes that were almost always present went away. I

would break out on my hands periodically from certain soaps and on my face when

I tried the make-up thing... nothing like it used to be. These rashes would only

last until I quit putting on my skin the culprit.

I have noticed though, the exzema on my hands and arms have been back to haunt

me lately. I have been wondering why this would be happening! I have been eating

all sourdough breads and soaking most of my grains, no mushrooms, we do not

overkill on sugar although I have been craving it and I may need some Chromium,

and I eat lactofermented foods, not daily yet, but I had never eaten these

before. The milk I drink is raw and organic, but a little grain fed. I had let

my Villi culture die and I am now just getting into the habit of making this

again, just took a short break this summer.

I know candida has haunted me all my life, but is there any 'cure' for the

candida overtake and causing all its ugly symptoms?

Grace,

a Augustine

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