Help!! Can gut really be healed without special diet????

December 29, 2006

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can help me. I have read 's book over and over

and all of it made perfect sense. Of course I ordered the Houston

Enzymes for my 3 yr old ASD daughter and things seem to be going

fine. Although she doesn't have 'perfect' bowel movements, we have

gone from 9-10 diarrheas per day to 1-2 partially formed stools per

day (they are kind of clay like in texture, but much better than what

she was having).

Anyway, we just left our DAN's office and he is really, really strict

about the diets. In the past year we have tried GFCF and SCD so many

times, I have lost count. My daughter is not the typical kid that

will 'eventually eat'. She has literally gone 8 days without 1 bite

to eat - we had to take her to the hospital for IV fluids and of

course, give in to giving her what she wants.

She only eats yogurt, toast, peanut butter (organic, sugar free),

crackers, chicken nuggets. I know it's a huge red flag that she only

craves gluten and casein but it's been like this for 3 years. She

literally gags, screams, kicks, bites, throws up, etc....when we try

to feed her anything new. I have gone weeks working with her on

feeding and we get no where. She returns to school on January 3rd and

they are going to start some feeding therapy with her.

I guess my question is, is it really possible for her gut to heal

using the enzymes or do I have to go through literal hell trying to

implement a diet with her???? Her Dr. wants to start LDN with her but

says that it will not work well if she isn't on a strict diet. I'm

just so confused and stressed out right now. My husband has been laid

off for 3 weeks and we barely have money to pay bills moreless start

buying special foods again.

Can anyone give me any insight on what to do??? Please be honest, I

can take it :-)

Thanks so much in advance,

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