Hi girls
I'm gonna join as well as I would like to try this diet for my extremely sensitive/allergic Julia. She is nearly a year old now.
I'm gonna give you a "little" background to her story:
Julia was born as a healthy baby at the end of last year. Unfortunately, I had to get antibiotics when I was delivering her as I had an infection. After she was born, she got few ounces of Aptamil formula before my milk came in. After this she was exclusively breastfed. At 2 weeks she developed severe colic - she practically screamed all day long with half an hour breaks when she would pass out from exhaustion.
I went on a dairy, egg and wheat free diet but she didn't improve and at 11 weeks the allergy clinic I was referred to asked me to stop breastfeeding and give her hypoallergenic formula. Another 11 weeks of of even stricter diet followed as I did not want to stop breastfeeding. I tried to follow the Failsafe diet. I was only eating: rice and rice products (rice bread,ricemilk etc), potatoes, root vegetables and pears. I tried to follow the low salysalate diet as she seemed to react to high salysaletes eg. olives, aubergines,avocados, also bananas(amines) -so I presumed she was food chemical sensitive.
She improved a great deal under this diet. The screaming stopped. However, she was still waking with wind about 5 times/ night, still mucousy stools and eczema. At 5 months I let myself be pressured into stopping breastfeeding as I was exchausted physically and emonionally. It broke my heart, though - still grieving the loss of it, 6 months down the line.
She is on Nutramigan AA at the moment and a very strict diet which consists of the following: millet, rice, quiona, chicken, potato, swede, squash, peas, asparagus, pears, peaches, plums,apricots. We have big problems with constipation and wind. She still wakes at least twice a night due to wind. We regularly try new foods but quite a number of them fail. She seems to have sore tummy from all meats other than chicken. I haven't even tried fish as she had terrible diarrhoea when had some salmon while breastfeeding. She reacted to both oats and corn. She also has sore tummy from carrots,parsnips, sweet potatoes,green breans and spinach.
We had a major accident 2 weeks when my 2 year old son (free of allergies) fed her a tiny amount of chocholate chip biscuit and we ended in hospital with a severe infection/flare up of her eczema. She had blood tests done which showed increased levels of IgA against peanuts and egg and a slightly reduced Immunoglobin. Her stool was checked for reducing substances and showed no abnormality. She has eczema, a hustle to her breathing, constant drooling (even when she is not teething) painful wind and constipation.
Otherwise,she is a very happy, friendly little girl. It breaks my heart to see her in pain and would love her settled and healthy.
I just wish I had round this diet when I was still breastfeeding.
I contacted Dr Campbell-McBride at Medinform
medinform@lineone.net and she suggested doing the baby diet.
So here are my questions:
Do I just give her the meat stock and nothing else for a few days? She absolutely loves her solids. If she doesn't get the chance to chew, will that not affect her adversely as well?
Do I even stop giving formula?
It seems a bit extreme and I'm not sure it's doable. What is she doesn't accept the meat stock?
Do I not even give her water to drink?
Also, what vegetables do I use to make her soup? She suggests not to worry about sals - is that defo the case?
There are some veg that she reacted to .e.g. carrots, spinach, green beans, broccoli.
Any help would be really appreciated, ladies.