Re: Starting Enzymes and GFCF Diet

[Guest guest]

I've read many posts where using enzymes for infractions only worked

great for the families. All I can tell you is that my son wouldn't

have responded well to that because he had a long, slow adjustment

period to using the enzymes. So, if I just occasionally gave him

one enzyme, we would see all kinds of hyperactivity, possibly tummy

aches, any number of things.

You might want to consider just starting enzymes and using them all

the time, for general digestive support and gut healing/health

maintenance. It's a bit more on the budget, but you'd get those

benefits, then not have to worry about the infractions when they

happen. He'd already be taking the enzymes.

For GFCF infractions, the only enzyme product known to be strong

enough and formulated correctly to be a " replacement " for GFCF is

Houston's Peptizyde.

Good luck.

> We've found it hard not to commit " infractions " on the GFCF diet,

> especially since we are not convinced it will help him. We were

> wondering whether using enzymes for those periodic infractions was

a

> reasonable thing to try. So we would do GFCF and use enzymes only

if

> we wanted to allow him a slice of pizza (his favorite food) or a

> cookie (as a rare treat). Does this make sense or should we use

> enzymes all the time or GFCF all the time?

>

[Guest guest]

At 06:34 AM 10/24/2004, you wrote:

>Can anyone advise about the possible effectiveness of using enzymes

>primarily to deal with infractions while on the GFCF diet.

That's how we do it cause my boys don't swallow pills yet. They'll take

the chewable AFP's but the powder the only way I can find to hide them so

they'll eat them is in chocolate or soda and since I'm opposed to using

chocolate or soda with every meal I'm going to have to wait till they

swallow pills or till I can find all the enzymes they need in chewable form.

>Does this make sense or must we do either enzymes all the time or

>the GFCF diet all the time?

Each kid and family are different. My only advice is to try each thing

individually to make sure the tolerate (some kids need to start with very

small doses of enzymes and work up). Also I think there is value in trying

GFCF just so you know how much of a difference it does or doesn't

make. GFCF won't work if you do it 1/2 heartedly. You should try for at

least a month and then challenge G & C independently as some kids only

react to 1 or the other. It helps to know which food particles you are

trying to target when deciding which and how many enzymes to dose...

That is my approach to it anyhow.

- near LAX

[Guest guest]

>>>>Can anyone advise about the possible effectiveness of using

enzymes primarily to deal with infractions while on the GFCF diet. My

2.5 year old PDD son shows no noticeable digestive probelms.

Peptizyde is the product that most people can use instead of a GFCF

diet if they want to. A few people need more gut healing before re-

introducing those foods. Or they have some other problem, like a true

allergy, that isn't based on food digestion. With Peptizyde you have

the choice of enzymes all the time, diet all the time, or any mixture

of the two. You can do occassional 'infractions' or use enzymes most

of the time.

Having Peptizyde allows more people to do GFCF if they want to. For

example, say the parents are divorced and one parent wants to do the

diet and the other doesn't. the non-diet parent can give enzymes. Or

you can do diet at home, but give enzymes for school lunches or at a

relative's house. Or going out without worrying about every molecule

of possible contamination. or do enzymes most of the time, but have a

GFCF breakfast. Lots of possibilities now.

Most everyone that sees any success with a GFCF diet, sees additional

improvement when Peptizyde is added. The reason may be the Peptizyde

will break down not only proteins from gluten and casein, but also

corn, soy, meats, and other sources you might not know about. This

includes internal sources such as yeast/bacteria by-products and

blood breakdown. Food eliminations can't reach these sources.

Even if you decide to do a special diet, you might also really want

to consider adding enzymes to break down the special diet foods you

are eating. And also because the enzymes can pro-actively heal the

gut if needed.

For those that try GFCF and see know results, or very limited

results, at least half of those people DO see improvement with

Peptizyde.

And there are a fair number of children who do substantially better

on Peptizyde WITH casien and gluten foods in the diet than even GFCF

and Peptizyde. So for those, the GFCF diet keeps them in sub-optimum

health. Just something to consider. You can also re-evaluate as you

go along and watch your child's response.

My older son who was the chronic headbanger never showed any bowel or

eating problems at all. But he responded marvelously to

Peptizyde...he stopped banging his head, started transitioning with

ease, and became downright pleasant. The testing is usually just a

general guideline and can't predict accurately if one might benefit

from a diet change or not.

Best with your decision.

.

[Guest guest]

>>So we would do GFCF and use enzymes only if

> we wanted to allow him a slice of pizza (his favorite food) or a

> cookie (as a rare treat). Does this make sense or should we use

> enzymes all the time or GFCF all the time?

Depends on the child. Any of those protocols can work, but certain

kids need certain things. You can certainly try the way you want it

to work, see if that works for your child.

Dana