Shannon, huge hugs, you are on way less foods than I am and I am feeling incredibly restricted. I just can't beleive you have lasted so well on so few foods. Surely this is a form of torture
It may be that this is your baseline, it may be that it will take up to 8 weeks for the mucus & blood to go (from past damaging foods). If you have other symptoms to go by, then I think you could forge on with introducing foods. If poo was your main symptom and you had nothing else to gauge his tolerance, then I would say hold fort for a while. But lets face it, for sanities sake I think YOU need to introduce something new. As you said he is greatly improved, I think you are right that the uptopian poo may not be achieved!
If it all turns into a mess, you can always pull back to those same foods.
You probably don't want to hear this but you asked, what would you do if I were you?
I would switch to the RPAH low chemical diet, as this diet not only cuts out allergins but also foods that anyone can be intolerant to such as natural food chemicals. It is amazing how common intolerance to natural chemicals such as salicylates and amines actually are. The RPAH diet has a wider range of foods that you can eat too, yay! It has socookboooks, yummy recipes and menu plans food charts and shopping lists.
Just to explain more fully: Looking at your foods, there is alot of salicylates being pumped into it. If he has a salicylate sensitivity, he would definantly react to your diet espeicially since you are eating so few foods in large quantities. The dietician said to me even tiny amounts of pepper will build up to something not tolerated in the salicylate sensitive individual, this is not even taking into account the tea and baby peaches. Her next advice to me was to pull back on some of the moderate salicylates that I was eating. Now your diet has way more sals in it than mine, I may eat one or two serves of foods with moderate sals in them per day, the rest low. I only eat two serves of fruit a day, as the sals will build up.
Peeled Zucchini and carrots are
moderate salicylate foods.
Black tea is
VERY high in sals (just to give an idea very high is about 10 times more than high, and high, is 10 times more than moderate)
pepper is
very highPeach (peeled) is
highI remember you said he reacted strawerries. They are just as high in sals as peaches are. If you cut strawberies, I think you need to switch to all low sals. what else could it be about the strawberry that gives a reaction? I am assuming its the sals. A salicylate sensitivity will build up over time, you can eat any foods that have salicylates in them, over time once the threshold of tolerance has been reached, he will react on the next thing you eat with sals in them. Some LO's can toelrate 1/2 cup a day, some 1/4 cup and so on.
Just to look at some of the safest foods as per the RPAH elimination diet. Lamb is on the safest foods list. So is white peeled potato, I know potato allergy is not unheard of, but i think it would give you great versatility - baked potato, boiled potatoes, mashed potatos, potato & meat patties with mashed potato and meat. If you want to introduce any flavourings, leeks and shallots are safe, they are on my safe low chemical low allergy foods list. You could finely chop leeks make potato patties with them, yum! Chick peas, butter beans, cannelli beans are all safe. Celery is low in everything, so are brussel sprouts. As for grains I would go for Quinoa, it is safe. It tastes yum and is high in protein.
Finally the extra booklet I orderd has arrived (that tells you how to do the diet, charts, menu plans, recipes etc). If you are thinking of switching diets to the RPAH diet, I will send it to you. Let me know, otherwise I will ship it off to Sherry.
Here is a link to more about salicylates:
http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/factsheets/Factsalicylates2.htmLots of hugs I think you are an amazing individual...
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