advice please

January 18, 2007

help! am i on the right track? i feel like we are eating so little,

and making gains overall in decreasing eczema, but my daughter still

flares up consistently. it's day 12 on SCD.

right now we are eating:

chicken broth

broiled chicken, beef, turkey

steamed spinach, green beans, artichokes

poached eggs

diluted cherry juice (very sparingly, about 2 oz a day)

pureed banana " shake "

homemade applesauce

we tried these, but i decided to cut them out to see if that might

stop the flare ups:

veggie-egg " pizza "

avocado

almond butter-banana muffins

homemade mayo

we don't eat honey or any other sweetener because of yeast. her only

sweet thing is cooked apple or ripe banana, or the tiny bit of

diluted juice i give her for taking her chinese herbs with. i cut out

the above foods because i thought they were the most likely to have

caused problems (eczema flare ups and green mushy stools), but i

really feel like it's impossible to tell what is causing the

problems. sometimes i see her scratching immediately upon eating. but

it doesn't always make sense. this morning she was scratching after

drinking some chicken broth.

could it be that things are just tumultuous in the beginning and her

body is just not settled yet, making it look like she's reacting to

everything? should i just stick to these stage 1 & some stage 2 foods

for a while and see if things settle down? do i really need to cut

out some of the veggies? i feel like the lack of variety is not

healthy for us anymore. i suspect that eating so many eggs and meat

has given us both sour stomachs all the time.

i'm confused about goat yogurt as well. we have been dairy free for a

couple of months now. is it too soon to start the yogurt? i made some

and it's in the fridge waiting. i was going to try 1/8 tsp per day. i

wonder if that could help her gut to deal with the yeast.

thanks

silvia, daughter with eczema (2) and dairy sensitivity, SCD day 12

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