Anyone else on an elimination diet (Fed up or RPAH?)

[EloysH]

Sure - Elizabeth Pickford is the paed allergist, and AmandaTurnbill the dietician, except she is having a bab yin two weeks so now i ma being transferred to  Jane someone a rather.  Names ring any bells?

[Katet]

Sure - Elizabeth Pickford is the paed allergist, and AmandaTurnbill the dietician, except she is having a bab yin two weeks so now i ma being transferred to  Jane someone a rather.  Names ring any bells?

I know the name of Elizabeth Pickford, but never had anything to to with her, I don't know any of dieticians as only ever worked with Immunologists & in the course of that met those who specialised in Allergy...

[Gypsymom]

Hugs for DH being a bit of bonehead. Mine had the nerve to wonder aloud again if anything I'm doing is even making a difference. Hello!?!

Hurray for yellow poos.

EDs are isolating!! At one of my work functions, I simply brought my own food and then transferred it onto the nice plate and sat there conversing as if all were normal and well. I almost didn't notice that I was eating the same dinner I'd had dozens of times already.

Sorry my current Paed is just a"normal Paed"  the one I am yet to see is from the RPA allergy unit, she is a paediatric allergist, and works closely with the dietician I am seeing. Due to see her in about 10 days.  Its going to be horrific though, its on the other side of the city and I will need to drive thru peak hour traffic to get there during Kais nap time - he doesn't sleep in the car!  Almost not worth the trip.

Hmm. That does sound grim. Could you leave 3 hours ahead to beat the traffic (or whatever time slot would coincide with normal awake time) and then get an APOP nap once you are at your destination - maybe in the sling?

I hope it will be more than worth the trip!! I haven't got much lined up yet as (thankfully) Sterling is gaining weight well now so the medical system "isn't that fussed" about his issues.

It's you who takes the lactease drops or Kai?

p.s. my copy of Friendly Food arrived today. I'm excited, but I'm not sure I really want to look at a cookbook with all those foodie photos iykwim.

Tari, you just seem to bubble with positivity. Thanks for sharing it.

[EloysH]

LOL, about your DH wondering aloud 

good idea on the travel early, although we'd be leaving around 6:30am that way.. He loves napping in the sling, so that would work, either way he will scream in the car though, I think i need ot take someone with me.  need to think about it some more.

So I shouldn't have spoken so soon, poo today was yellow but with a little bit of mucus in the folds of the nappy    He is a little unsettled today,  for the first time in a more than a week I noticed some swallowing and refluxing, and after his last feed he actually spit up.  Although  its all very minor compared to the episodes and amount of mucus he ahd before this ED.

Tara, how did you know your baseline had been reached ?  After you sorted the oatmeal issue, how long it it take for the poos to settle?

Kai takes the drops.

[sherry lynn]

Finally caught up. I hope everybody is having a good weekend.

[hrk]

Eloys, have you also been considering products on your skin?  Any chance that those could be a factor, if you use something irregularly?  Or his skin?

[sherry lynn]

Jenny - I forgot to say. DS2 had a huge huge reaction to soy flour. So I wouldn't down play the "little" bit of soy flour in the diet messing things up. Maybe your parents can make a soy flour free batch?

[Edesanja]

Sherry I haven't had bread for a while now because I saw you had problems. They do make 1 kind that has no soy flour so will stock up on that. Haven't really noticed any improvements though becasue we had the probiotics incident then someone very kindly made us a meal which we ate for 3 days. They asked what I couldn't eat and I told them, but STILL found out later there was egg in the meatballs

[sherry lynn]

*hugs* Jenny, how long has it been since then? The last mess up I had only seemed to take a couple of days to get back on track from. I hope that is the case for you. It's hard to even be angry when somebody is trying to be nice.

[huntersmummyinoz]

thought i'd jump over here to share our experiences with this. i'm on the moderate elimination diet mostly but occasionally eating high and very high sals and amine foods. once i stopped eating loads of the high and very high foods i noticed a big difference with kingston and mucousy poos gone (except for reactions to solids ). we have done a sals challenge (pumpkin) which he reacted to. so far tolerated foods for solids are rice, pears, swede, choko and potato. have just introduced quinoa and will then be doing an amine challenge (lamb and then banana). had to delay the challenge for a week as accidently ate the wrong mayonaise with milk solids in it, had it two days in a row and got mucousy poops for 3 days. still cant believe how sensitive he is as that would only have been a tiny tiny amount of dairy. currently in the process of weaning to neocate, dropped the first feed on saturday.
 
hugs all round ladies, you are wonderful mummies and you are doing a FANTASTIC job sticking out the ED this far

[EloysH]

Jean: don't think its any skin stuff, I use a moisturiser that's all  the same one since he was born.

Well his poo is back to normal again today!  and no refluxing again.  So strange.
I can recall popping something naughty into my mouth but i don't know what, - was it a handful of cashews? was it licking the yoghurt off the spoon?


Got in to an emergency appt to the aped allergist for tomorrow morning to have a second oppinion on his weight gain, intro to solids,  my diet etc etc   Wish me luck.  I hope to come hmoe with a new plan..

[Edesanja]

Eloise, we went to the Dr today for his 5 month immunisations. She reckons starting solids might help J reflux. Weight gain hasn't been too bad - up from 5.76kg to 6.1kg in 3 weeks (though both those weights were done with his cloth nappy on so not exact). The dr didn't say anything about his weight though because the nurse had done that so she was recommending solids for reflux. I'm going to watch how he takes his pears and losec from a spoon more carefully today and see - I think he might be ready. He grabbed broccoli off my plate yesterday too. I took it off him but he was mighty keen to stick that in his mouth.

[Gypsymom]

Does anyone have a link I could show my GP to help him believe me that poos should not be mucuosy?

Hugs for the meatball incident, Jenny. I think it's hard for people to understand how totally anal we have to be. I ate 3 servings of rice at my parents house before discovering it had been boiled with butter - at least I knew then his rx was not random. For us, it takes somewhere between 48-72 hours to get better after small slips (so far I've not cheated intentionally although I have been tempted!).

Good luck at the appt, Elo.

Hugs for smooth weaning, Kirry.

[hrk]

Kirry, I am aware of organics being higher.  :-(  I have had the debate in my mind.  I decided for us it is better to eat organics and eat lower on the food scale than eat pesticides.  I guess that is what we are deciding at this point.  Hugs, and I hope the neocate switch is a smooth transition and makes life a bit more simple for food trials in the future.  XXXXXXXXXXXX  

Hugs for the immunizations; I hope things go smoothly.  Hugs for the food blunders, too.  It happens if others are in charge of his food, and is a part of the reason I am still at home with H.  I feel like there is a finite amt of time before he is in preschool and other enviroments then become a factor with other well meaning people giving H food/treats/etc.

Eloys, perhaps bring the products you are using on and around K and yourself for a look over in that apt.  I did when I saw the gi; he didn't know, though.  It was part of the reason he referred us to the allergist.  The allergist knew nothing about salicylates, so I didn't even get them out of my bag.  :-(

Here is a chart for checking ingredients high in sals (for anyone who is sensitive to salicylates).  I cannot find a long one I used a ways back.  If I find it, I will post that, too.  You need to consider: medications, body wash, shampoo, toothpaste (almost all are a type of mint and are flavored we use Cleure), any scented things around your house like candles, what you wash your dishes in (or wash everything in), laundry detergent; it is quite extensive and those are things of the top of my head.  Your skin is your largest organ, thus what goes on it is absorbed.  It all contributes to the sals you are ingesting/breathing/taking in.  And it probably doesn't matter to most people.  I have found some sites, but have used others in the past (that I am not finding now).

http://www.webmd.com/allergies/guide/salicylate-allergy
http://www.mysensitiveskincare.com/salicylate-free-products.html

Several lines of skin care products that are salicylate free are: Cleure http://www.cleure.com/, Andrea Rose http://personalbasics.stores.yahoo.net/index.html, and lots of people on the salicylatesensitivity.com site report success with the vanicream line http://www.vanicreamsale.com/displayproducts.asp?DisplayType=MFG&Criteria=Vanicream&T=AdWords&KW=ZKW100512_Van_1.  The only one we have not tried is Andrea Rose b/c it was not rated in the enviromental working groups cosmetic database measuring for safety.  I know many do not like that site, but there are really no great/perfect sites (for those in the US with regards to US products) that I have seen in the US.  We are trying detergent free right now, so using Dr. Bronner's for skin/hair/hand cleaning and Vermont Soap for home cleaning.  I know that they have oils, but it something we are trying to clear his skin.  

And my dermatologist said to avoid salicylic acid when I was pregnant; I had asked her what to avoid and had her look at what I was using.  The beauty aisle is full of it.  Luckily, I was already avoiding it before having H, as I noticed my skin was actually worse with it.  It is a salicylate.  I came back to add that salicylates are not bad if you are pg, but rathe rshe was just indicating salicylic acid.

[Gypsymom]

I want to switch to the RPAH diet but I am so nervous about re-starting the transition/detox phase. When I've got the booklet, I will. I promised DH I'd add some red meat into my diet though asap (he wanted beef, but we settled on bison).

Elo, do you think I should just start eating from the low-sal/amine charts in the Friendly Food cookbook or is it better to wait and be fully on the program. If I don't know if eggs are a problem, I'll be eating them, right? Hope your app't went well today.

Anyone heard from Sarah lately?