Re: When to do an infringement?

December 29, 2001

Well this is wonderful, a bunch of people not having any problems

over the holiday (and some people think I exaggerate!).

As for challenging the diet, you certainly don't HAVE to. But if you

want to, and you are using 1 capsule and your child is doing fine, I

would think any think anytime would be okay. I " challenged " the diet

the with the first capsule. I was one of those first parents before

we developed better guidelines so I didn't know any better, lol. I

said " Here's a Peptizyde and here's and ice cream sandwich. " My 7 and

9 year old didn't argue after being CF for 2 months. We had tried a

protease product from the health food store for a week before that so

it could have been helped by the fact their bodies were used to

enzymes by now. That product was a dud as far as infractions went.

The boys were fine from the first capsule. My only tidbit would be to

use a known quantity of the food you want to challenge and watch for

reactions for more than one day, like up to 3 at least, so you can

judge how it is going.

Best wishes for success.

.

December 29, 2001

> I also just started the enzymes during this vacation and have not

seen any

> regression yet. My son is on the gfcf diet and I was wondering how

long

> after being on the enzymes do you challenge the gfcf diet?

I challenged gfcf after about 3 weeks on enzymes. I use HNI enzymes,

be sure you use enzymes which you can use for challenges. I started

with just casein challenge. My son tolerates it okay with enzymes,

but it is high phenol so I still have to watch the quantity I give

him.

After about 2 weeks, I challenged the gluten. My son regressed after

about 10 days on gluten with enzymes. So he is still gf, but he does

not have to be entirely cf, so I am very happy about that.

I challenge other problem foods occasionally. Some he tolerates with

enzymes, some not. So I would definitely recommend you challenge the

foods one at a time.

Dana

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