Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 , You could try giving him ice chips... make home made popsicles as they are fun to eat. or try sparkling water, stella loves all those. amanda -- -mom to Stella, 5years old, started keto diet May 10th 2004 still waiting to be seizure free. On Lamictal, weaned her off the epam and Diamox. VNS as of 11/19/04. Big sister Anisa is almost 10 and a happy healthy girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 We were told by our dietician not to count any of the cream as " fluid intake " . I clarified that with her when we initiated, because " The Book " says that liquids should be clear and non-caloric. It goes on to say that in hot climates (which ours is in the summer when we initiated)the cream " may " be excluded from the fluid allowance. I'd be curious to know what Hopkins dietician recommends. Ours said she usually calculates fluid allowance to exclude cream. As it turned out, was allowed to have unlimited fluids after the first month of the diet in order to keep ketones from going too high for her. , hope you get things sorted out for soon. I'm sorry your dietician isn't helping and you are " on your own " . My always ddid better with " lower " ketones, too, so I'm trying to think what might have happened to upset the apple cart for your when she had been doing so well. Nothing specific comes to mind, yet... but I'll keep thinking. Glad things are at least starting to look a little better. Cammie r him. > So I checked with our dietician re the cream/fluid issue earlier this > year, and she said I could only count half of it as fluid, not all of it, as > a portion of it metabolises as a 'solid'. > Not sure if everyone works like this, but this is what we were told. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: " " > > One thing I may have done wrong is not counting the cream as a fluid in > her fluid allowance. I had been told not to, but now it appears I should > have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 We initiated at JH and unless I am way off target, our dietician said NOT to count cream as fluid intake. in fact, she ran our meal plans for us and cream is included and the meals are all balanced calorically and by his ratio. Fluids are separated - gets 1000 mls a day. Leigh Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at https://signup.mybluelight.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 only averages about 100 gms cream per day anyways, so when calculating half as fluid, approx 50 mls per day is really neither here nor there. He is still way below what he should be having fluid wise, which is about 1500 mls. I know for a fact there is no way he will ever drink this much, he never did pre diet or pre topomax either. She also said to push jello when he wouldn't drink much, as I could use all that water content as part of his fluid intake (sounds like this isn't what others have been told though?) Remembering though that we are not trying to restrict fluids, we are trying to encourage them instead. ----- Original Message ----- From: cammie562003 We were told by our dietician not to count any of the cream as " fluid intake " . I clarified that with her when we initiated, because " The Book " says that liquids should be clear and non-caloric. It goes on to say that in hot climates (which ours is in the summer when we initiated)the cream " may " be excluded from the fluid allowance. I'd be curious to know what Hopkins dietician recommends. Ours said she usually calculates fluid allowance to exclude cream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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