Re: ketogenic diet

[Guest guest]

-Hi Vicky

My son also tends to get this white tongue- not so much now but in the

past it was terrible. For us it was not thrush though as everyone

first said- it was what is called geographic tongue and was related to

food allergies. Mike is not on keto now but has severe food allergies

which for a long time went indetected. His reaction to these foods-

white tongue, foul smelling body and within 18-24 ours of ingesting

the offending food he would start to seizure- for us he would have 4-5

days of seizures then they would stop. Over a period of a couple of

years we were able to identify many foods that triggered this pattern-

the biggest culprits were dairy, soy and gluten. Once we restricted

these we saw many improvements and now only see this white tongue if

he contacts a food that may have been cross contaminated with one of

his allergens. BTW- none of these allergies showed up on traditional

testing so it is more of a food sensntivity issue but none the less he

has been on a very restricted diet for a couple of years now and while

I occasionally do a food test he still gets the same reactions.

This is just food for thought.

Re the thrush issue- if it is thrush- a mild, natural way to treat it

that may not interfere with the diet is to take a daily capsule of

kyolic garlic- available at HFS. Works great.

Faye