Shannon, I wish I could answer you questions, I'm not entirely sure how to do the food challenges as I am not up to that bit yet Tongue Speaking to the dietician on Monday though so will let you know if I get info on the mechanics of food challenges. One note though: - for nuts we coudn't use almonds as they are really high in salicylates so would give a confounded result. Apparantly the choice of off foods for the food challenge is very important. The booklet I have doesn't describe in detail how to to the challenges!
Thanks! I am still waiting to get in to see a dietician here - Friday is our app't. Don't know how helpful she'll be - EDs don't seem to be oft recommended for some reason. So right now I'm just winging it but at least I'll have food logs etc already prepared so hopefully that's a headstart.
An another note i am really down and shocked today Sad Kai has been subtly getting worse since I started the full ED. His poos have been getting worse and worse too. Last night he woke for an hour 3am -4am refluxing, this morning he actually spat up - rare for him and is clearly uncomfortable, which is from days of the past. I am really really annoyed that i am trying so hard but STILL problems.
Boo!! You must be terribly frustrated. Would you believe I'm in the same boat? Things started to improve nicely (diapers heading towards yellow, less slime and less often - hurray for heavy wet ones without any bms in them) until Friday eve and since then we've been in "reaction mode"! I've even had some
blood specks in the now very green diapers.
I could almost sob as I'm only eating about 15 foods total. However, that day for lunch I did have turkey for the first time since starting this more extreme ED and also brown nice (both foods are supposed to be ok!!) so am avoiding them both again now, just in case. But if that wasn't it, I'm really up the creek. I wonder if a LO can be completely protein intolerant?? However I was/am eating chicken when the trend was better so hopefully that is ok. Sigh.
Welcome, Sara. "Just dairy" is still a really huge commitment. I'm not a meat fan so losing all my yogurt, cheese, etc was quite a hardship for me (even though I've never been an actual milk drinker, except in tea). But I think it's true what E says - if you can get through the first 2-3 weeks, the 'sting' of it gets easier. And I have to say that taking it out was the 800lb gorilla for us and made a big improvement in the reflux within about 4 days, but as pps have said, it can take 2-3 weeks to get you and Elise clear.
This might sound weird but are potatoes in your diet,
Thanks for popping in, Kate. You never know where your a-ha might come from so little hints are always helpful. For me, potatoes are not allowed, only sweet potatoes.
Jenny, how are you going? I was wondering how you knew to 'stop' at your big 3 groups? I rely so much on the diapers but read recently of a gal who did MSPI only and it took a full six weeks off of both to get really nice looking diapers. Then I had the horrid thought that maybe I've expected improvement in days and have been needlessly (but I really don't think so) taking more and more foods out.