apparent food allergy unmasked - ideas?

[Guest guest]

Hello,

My son has been on SCD for 11 weeks now - mostly dairy-free

except on 5 occasions. The first two occasions were at Thanksgiving

(parm & cheddar cheese in scr. eggs) and other 3 occasions were in this

past week (cheddar cheese in baked bread). On at least 2-3 of these

times his behavior got very aggressive within an hour or so of eating the

cheese. I'm thinking that there's a connection here. Before starting

SCD he ate dairy (milk & cheese) without any apparent problems so I'm a

little confused. Another thing to consider is that he tested allergic

(IgG) to milk and cheese 3 years ago but I didn't remove the items from

his diet as there were no apparent problems.

Has anyone seen this happen before? I'd really appreciate some input

here.

Eileen (mom to , ASD, SCD 11 weeks, and SCD 6 weeks)

[Guest guest]

his behavior got very aggressive within an hour or so of eating the

cheese.

We have similar experiences. I think before SCD their bodies are so

completely overwhelmed with " bad stuff " that no one food stands out as a

problem. I think of it as sort of like being in a very, very noisy room -

it hurts your ears and you may be in a sort of permanent " wince, " but no one

particular noise stands out - or even when it does, your ears (whole body,

in fact!) are so " numb " that the one noise doesn't make much difference.

Take away all that noise, however . . . then when a really loud horn blows

in the room, you jump, wince . . . that's how it seems with my son. It

APPEARS that the sensitivity is greater, but in fact his whole body was so

overloaded with allergic reactions and opioid reactions and organic acid

reactions and so forth, that who could tell if one food made a difference?

Now, though - whew!!! We cheated on the diet 10 days ago and are still

paying the price and likely will be for a while . . . NEVER, I repeat, NEVER

will I do that again. If he has to live on chicken and carrots for the rest

of his life, so be it, because I am NOT going through this again!!

Alice, Mama to , 7, ASD, SCD 3 months

[Guest guest]

Hi Eileen,

Some of the kids may not be ready for cow dairy foods until their

guts heal a bit more. He may be okay with legal goat dairy (for

example goat cheddar or goat yogurt). The goat milk protein is

actually smaller than cow milk protein and doesn't seem to bother as

many of the ASD kids.

If he still has a reaction to the goat dairy you may try leaving it

out of his diet for a while longer until more healing occurs (at

least 1 month)

Sheila 46 mos SCD, 20 yrs UC

mom of SCD 31 mos

> Hello,

>

> My son has been on SCD for 11 weeks now - mostly dairy-

free

> except on 5 occasions. The first two occasions were at

Thanksgiving

> (parm & cheddar cheese in scr. eggs) and other 3 occasions were in

this

> past week (cheddar cheese in baked bread). On at least 2-3 of

these

> times his behavior got very aggressive within an hour or so of

eating the

> cheese. I'm thinking that there's a connection here. Before

starting

> SCD he ate dairy (milk & cheese) without any apparent problems so

I'm a

> little confused. Another thing to consider is that he tested

allergic

> (IgG) to milk and cheese 3 years ago but I didn't remove the items

from

> his diet as there were no apparent problems.

>

> Has anyone seen this happen before? I'd really appreciate some

input

> here.

[Guest guest]

Hi Eileen,

Some of the kids may not be ready for cow dairy foods until their

guts heal a bit more. He may be okay with legal goat dairy (for

example goat cheddar or goat yogurt). The goat milk protein is

actually smaller than cow milk protein and doesn't seem to bother as

many of the ASD kids.

If he still has a reaction to the goat dairy you may try leaving it

out of his diet for a while longer until more healing occurs (at

least 1 month)

Sheila 46 mos SCD, 20 yrs UC

mom of SCD 31 mos

> Hello,

>

> My son has been on SCD for 11 weeks now - mostly dairy-

free

> except on 5 occasions. The first two occasions were at

Thanksgiving

> (parm & cheddar cheese in scr. eggs) and other 3 occasions were in

this

> past week (cheddar cheese in baked bread). On at least 2-3 of

these

> times his behavior got very aggressive within an hour or so of

eating the

> cheese. I'm thinking that there's a connection here. Before

starting

> SCD he ate dairy (milk & cheese) without any apparent problems so

I'm a

> little confused. Another thing to consider is that he tested

allergic

> (IgG) to milk and cheese 3 years ago but I didn't remove the items

from

> his diet as there were no apparent problems.

>

> Has anyone seen this happen before? I'd really appreciate some

input

> here.

[Guest guest]

Hi Eileen,

Some of the kids may not be ready for cow dairy foods until their

guts heal a bit more. He may be okay with legal goat dairy (for

example goat cheddar or goat yogurt). The goat milk protein is

actually smaller than cow milk protein and doesn't seem to bother as

many of the ASD kids.

If he still has a reaction to the goat dairy you may try leaving it

out of his diet for a while longer until more healing occurs (at

least 1 month)

Sheila 46 mos SCD, 20 yrs UC

mom of SCD 31 mos

> Hello,

>

> My son has been on SCD for 11 weeks now - mostly dairy-

free

> except on 5 occasions. The first two occasions were at

Thanksgiving

> (parm & cheddar cheese in scr. eggs) and other 3 occasions were in

this

> past week (cheddar cheese in baked bread). On at least 2-3 of

these

> times his behavior got very aggressive within an hour or so of

eating the

> cheese. I'm thinking that there's a connection here. Before

starting

> SCD he ate dairy (milk & cheese) without any apparent problems so

I'm a

> little confused. Another thing to consider is that he tested

allergic

> (IgG) to milk and cheese 3 years ago but I didn't remove the items

from

> his diet as there were no apparent problems.

>

> Has anyone seen this happen before? I'd really appreciate some

input

> here.