RE: stomach problems lactose/Barbara

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Barbara,

The big thing was an extreme lack of energy, but she would also have stomach

discomfort. It seems that her stomach has always been somewhat bloated

since starting the diet. We were so use to her having a distended stomach

that a couple months ago we discovered that she no longer was distended from

bloating but from weight gain.

If you are planning on taking away the cream watch closely her ketones.

I've recently discovered that cream and butter are great sources for

producing ketones. Ketones can drop when switching to a new fat source such

as Sunflower oil.

Rhonda

Rhonda,

This was an old post, but I'm about to do a similar experiment with my

Claire with the cream and all. I was wondering, though what Shan's

symptoms were (besides the lack of energy and continued seizures)?

Thanks,

Barbara

[Guest guest]

Barbara,

We used the yoghurt cream (lactose free) as her primary fat. It worked like

the cream. It did not cause the ketones to drop. In fact, we got her down

to a 1-1.5:1 ratio while using the yoghurt cream. I'm wondering if you can

directly exchange the cream with the yoghurt cream? I would think that you

could. The only difference is that you have added a small amount of yoghurt

to the cream when making the yoghurt. I'm assuming that you are making

lactose free yoghurt. If you aren't I would encourage you to go this route

with Claire.

Lots of burps would be an indicator that all is not well in the

stomach/digestive system. If something is not well in the digestive system,

it causes a person to be tired.

Rhonda

Re: stomach problems lactose/Rhonda

Thanks Rhonda. Well, I wanted to try the yogurt first. Did Shan's

ketones drop when you switched to it?

Along with tiring easily (she is very active again, but looks so tired

much of the time...and if she's not excited about playing or going

somewhere, she'll take a voluntary nap), Claire has been burping (biiiig

ones sometimes--we call them monster burps). They don't appear to be

related to reflux and I noticed it doesn't happen so much since I added

yogurt to her diet. So if our dietician can give me a way to substitute

the yogurt cream for the cream at each meal (our team does the diet a

little differently, with exchanges, so I can't do it myself), I could

get some more healthy yogurt into her and still use the cream.

Otherwise, if I eliminate the cream entirely, she has to have a huge

amount of straight fat (again, because of the exchange system).

~Barbara