Help and advice for starting SCD, please!

February 23, 2012

Hello, I haven't posted for a while but we had a consultation with Dr

Yeoh at The Breakspear last week and she has suggested we move from the

GF/CF diet (nearly eight years later!) to SCD with my twelve year old

son and I don't really know where to start ... other than here! Sorry

if this is a bit long ...

We had the GF/CF diet more or less sussed, although as my son is

mainstream and very social so whenever he went to people's houses or

away on trips, he would take HNI enzymes. Most of the time he is doing

very well both in and out of school, but he does have an ongoing issue

with weekly tummy aches and occasional bouts of vomiting. Both issues

have decreased over the years, partly helped when we took out

boiled/fried/scrambled eggs, too, but they ARE still there - and often,

but not always, co-incide with times of heightened emotions: anxieties

re SATS or sport event, and evn birthday and christmas - when he really

is NOT negatively emotional!

He has been having CBT with his therapist (he was on ABA for several

years but no longer needs their input) since he started secondary school

last September but the anxieties continue - although not at school

where he is much happier than at primary - so I think Dr Yeoh is right

and it is worth trying the SCD. Howver, at 165cm and weighing just 45k

(and with hollow legs and doing various sports up to eight times a week

- and that's apart from PE!), I can't imagine how I will fill him up and

he not lsoe weight! My husband (a similar build to my son) is an

insulin-dependent diabetic who runs so needs LARGE amounts of complex

carbs, so a family change to all SCD is out of the question - my husband

would quickly end up on the floor with hypoglycaemia and

life-threatening fits - so I am, understandably, anxious about how to do

this.

I am also not an experienced baker (having been with a type 1 diabetic

for 20 years), so I really need the easiest/tastiest recipes for bread

and muffins and any advice people have, please, such as breadmachines,

do I need a yoghurt maker, should he still be casein free (he's been

doing very well on goat's milk so far)! I am up in Yorkshire and don't

know anyone here who is doing SCD but if there is a specific support

group, preferably in the UK, I'd love to know! Thanks for reading

this!

Yours, hopefully, Margaret

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