How do you decide to suppliment?

November 25, 2004

Hudson doesn't have a varied diet due to salicylates. He used to eat

anything and everything and now react to everything but those few

foods low in phenols and salicylates. He's not sleeping well at

night, awake for hours- not a new thing but it went away for the

first month or SCD. He's covered in bruises event though he's not

ambulant and doesn't play rough. He's low normal Vit B12, low in Vit

D and I'm thinking about supplimenting Mag, cal (he's not on dairy)

zinc and maybe even a multi vit. I can't buy enzymes here (we live in

New Zealand) that aren't papain or bromeliad based, I can't afford to

import any supps because of the rate of exchange and freight. The

Solgar range is available here that's starch and sugar free but I've

asked before about them and never got a reply so don't know if

they're worth it, and even then it's an adult range and I don't know

how much to give my 6 year old, what do I do?

Thanks, and Hudson SCD three months.

November 25, 2004

Can you please tell us what he does eat?

Perhaps someone who has a very phenol sensitive child can

make some suggestions to broaden his food choices.

Jody

mom to -5 and -8

SCD 22 months

November 25, 2004

Thanks Jody, he eats eggs and pear omlette for b'fast, during the day

he'll eat meat (chicken, lamb, beef, tinned salmon or fresh fish) and

his vegies are green beans, peas (they're new though and only in

small amounts) pumpkin which he's also starting to react to and I'm

cutting way back, that's it. He has two slices of pecanbread a day

and a cashew muffin if he doesn't have D, he was doing trophies for a

few weeks and is now back to D for the last week (before the peas, I

don't know exactly what's triggered it since he had nothing new). He

was eating some cheese and goat yogurt but he had foul breath and I

presumed his sinuses were flilling so I've pulled it and his breath

is fine again. He also got a rash on his chin which is fading since

pulling dairy. Last night for tea he ate cabbage and green split peas

with chicken I had simmered in water for hours. He slept through the

night for the first time in weeks so I'm thinkin gpumpkin is a new

problem for him, another veggie I have to pull. Within half an hour

of eating pumpkin he's a mess, I have to put him to bed, he's

tantrumming and cryiing for about an hour and then he's OK again,

just started the last few days.

I'm totally for the diet, but it's hard when I'm only cutting more

and more foods from his diet, I don't have a supportive doctor or

dietician, I don't know the cause of his gut issues ( D and

occassional M for three years) we're still on a waiting list to see a

gastro. At the moment it's not sustainable without suppliments, he's

been on it for three months and is not eating a varies diet, it's

hard to get enough carbs in when the choice of veggies and fruit is

so slim. I felt he was reacting to pineapple juice when I starting

give him some diluted juice once a day so besides pears there's

nothing. I was cooking pawpaw for a week but wasn't sure about, that

was when I pulled dairy so maybe that's OK, but it's not something he

can hav e muc of since it's not in seaon, and they're restrictively

expensive here.

Thanks, and Hudson (6, CP) SCD three months

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> Can you please tell us what he does eat?

>

> Perhaps someone who has a very phenol sensitive child can

> make some suggestions to broaden his food choices.

>

> Jody

> mom to -5 and -8

> SCD 22 months

November 25, 2004