Re: I am new the list and need your help/Bianca

January 2, 2003

Hello Bianca,

You English is much better than my German (or any other language for

that matter), LOL. I did visit once for a few days. Germany is

beautiful (to me).

Enzymes are very good in helping with an assortment of eating

problems. Particularly picky eating. My younger son was a very picky

eater for several years until his third week on enzymes, and then

BAM! he was eating everything he could find. I think there was some

damage of some kind that the enzymes 'fixed'. I had taken him to the

doctor for his eating and bowel problems 8 different times (this is

after 2 years at a children's hospital where they thought it was

psychological). The enzymes helped a great deal.

I would suggest not doing GFCF right off. That can be tricky and

expensive and there is a evidence it can promote bacteria and yeast

among other things. Do you know if your son may have bacteria or

yeast? The Peptizyde is an excellent enzyme to start with. Since

some people do better with Peptizyde and no GFCF diet than with the

diet, that may work better. It is hard to say. But if you decide to

you other enzymes you may want to try the GFCF along with them.

What would be relatively easy (and cheap) to do is take out dairy

for 4-5 days and see if there is any improvement. This is quick and

that way you could see if there is a problem with dairy. Dairy can

be a problem for a number of reasons (lactose intolerance, casein,

phenol intolerance, histamine). Then if you decide to try enzymes,

do that and see if there is improvement. Then if there is no

improvement, try more food eliminations. This is just my opinion,

but it seems like the likely progression. There is no one right or

wrong way to do this.

One of the main things secretin does is to improve the function of

your natural digestive enzymes. So it can be more efficient (and

less expensive) to just give the enzymes. In the meantime, you can

try giving your son a little baking soda (1/4 teaspoon or so) after

eating. It may be called bicarbonate of soda there - like what you

cook with. That may help his digestion too. This mimics what the

secretin does. This is what is in many antacids so it is safe and

can be very effective. It may help with the throwing up too.

How does your son do with meats?

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