Immuno Blood Print

[kmtatt]

This is my first time posting. My five year old son has a tic. It started a year ago and he shifts his jaw. It began last January lasted only a few weeks, came back in July and lasted two months. It now returned this January and is still here but seems to be slowing down and hopefully ending. When the tics are present he also seems to be much more fidgety. We went to a nuerologist and she said she said it could be transient or at the same time it could be the beginning of tourette's.

 

I fear a day when it gets worse and they suggest meds. I went to a doctor that was recommended to me and they put him on a low sugar diet and ran several tests - yeast, allergy, metals.

 

My doctor is away and I got the Immuno Allergy tests back with a letter. He is allergic to bananas +1, cheese +1, egg +2, milk+1, rye+1, wheat+2, Yeast, brewers +2, yeast bakers+1. I am so confused. How do I eliminate all of these things. Also it said to eliminate them for three months and slowly reintroduce. Isn't it if your allergic, your allergic?

 

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. I feel so lost in all of this information.

[Guest Guest_MMAZZ]

Welcome and we all know the feeling of being over whlemed. I too am new and have not quite figured out the how, whys and whens. BUt I do know that diet is key. Elimination diets on this site has proved beneficial to many. I did not try an elimination diet for my son because his diet was so poor and consisted of only sugarry foods and milk that I just eliminated sugar, starches and milk leaving what I thought was not much of a choice...I was wrong. My advise is read, read and read and then go to your local health food store ask questions of the storekeep and purchase and try. You will do fine! As for reintroduction, well there might be a tolerance issue for your son. That means that he may not be allergic to ..say bannannas but might be allergic to bannanna when taken with milk..coumpounded allergies. So reintroduction slowly is great advise. Also three months will give your body time to heal from its allergic state thus strengthening the immune system, so things that might be tolerated normally would cause the body to trigger an allergic response when the system is weakened.

 

Good Luck

[kim]

MMAZZ,

 

Could you clarify your comment about "being wrong". I have an 8 year old son who has the same diet you described your child has. I can't imagine what he would eat if I tried to eliminate sugar and milk. Did you find substitute foods at a health food store? I would really like to start some vit./supp. with him, but he has complained of stomach upset on and off for the last month, and I'm afraid the vitamins may contribute to this. I am also thinking yeast is probably an issue.

Anyway, I was just wondering if you did manage to eliminate sugar or milk and what kind of results you had.

 

My son had extensive blood work done last week and everything came back within the normal range including vitB, lead, magnesium etc. I am wondering if he has an absorbtion problem and if these tests, which were done by his regular ped. are really enough to tell me anything useful.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

Kim

[mmazz]

Hi Kim,

 

I have learned that the body will crave things that it is harmful to it, especially if you have yeast. Yeast will make you crave sugar. Refined sugars, sugars that the body transforms from pasta, starches, and milk, etc. These foods are inorganic thus the body cannot digest and it will cause problems with your digestive tract and makes it impossible for your body to excrete daily waste. This causes reabsorbtion of toxic matter into the body which wrecks havoc on the entire body. Organic foods -raw foods provide what the body needs to heal itself. I tossed everything in my home that was inorganic- oreos, chocolate, chips, and oh yes pasta of every kind. I used a B complex and a multi viatmin with a cal/mag liquid and of course acidolphilus(spelling). Remember that it got so bad here that in the early morning prior to school we had to dress and eat breakfast in the dark because of light sensitivity. It was not until I started preparing fresh vegitable juices of carrot and spinach that I started to see a difference in eating habits, personality changes, decreases in tics ...everything. We ditched the B complex and the cal/mag because he was getting ample amounts in his juice daily. The absorbtion of these vit/min and enzemes were immediate...because of no fiber to digest, it only takes about 15 minutes to enter into the system. He drinks an 8 oz. glass daily of 1 lb of carrots and 2 oz of spinach. His energy level is up and is able to start the day refreshed and charged and last all day long. He now craves things like oranges, apples, watermelon, clams, burgers, and chicken. These things were never in his diet! His appetite increased dramatically and has gained about 5 lbs and grew 1 1/2" over the last two and 1/2 months. I must admit that we did this as a family so he did not feel like he was the only one. We don't dine out anymore (and boy do I miss that) but the bigger picture is just how healthy he looks. I give him snacks like organic cream cookies made from maple syrups and unprocessed wheat, lemon drop cookies which look like vanilla wafers but are made with pure cane sugars and unprocessed wheat. Potatoe chips which are made from organic potatoes and fried in canola oil and lightly salted with sea salt (which by the way is the only salt I will use from now on). The healthfood store shelves are packed with some really great stuff..and some not so great stuff. You will have to start to read every package and know that everything you buy won't be as yummy tasting as the crap that Nabisco puts out. I cannot stress the importance of eating raw foods daily. The old 5 a day is really what it is all about. Every dinner must have salad, a source of protein, and a fruit. Every breakfast and lunch contain a piece of fruit and vegitable juice is one of the most beneficial thing that we can do for our bodies. Please know that freshly juiced from organic vegitables is key and not store bought processed and pasturized stuff that is void of nutrients. A great book to read is Fresh Juice and Vegitable Juices by Norman Walker. It is informative and will bring to light the importance of what we put in our mouths. It also talks about the best juicer to use. A point to remember is that our cells are living and require nutrients from raw sources..cooking vegitables kills the nutrients, eating them slows down the absorbtion because of the fiber and the body eliminates fiber which contains the vit/min from that vegitable. Juicing is the only way to assure 100% absorbtion.

 

Well that's about the extent of my knowledge thus far but I am still learning from books and all of you good people. Good luck in what you try and keep me posted on how your doing. Good Luck.

 

Marie

[kim]

Marie,

 

Thank you so much for the response. Man what I wouldn't do to see my son drink a glass of carrot and spinach juice. Once I gave him some chicken noodle soup broth in his sippy cup when he was just about 4 yrs. old. I had never tricked him before so he didn't see it coming, he gagged and wiped his tongue for an hour all the while crying. I think there is probably a little OCD type behavior associated with his eating disorder. I really feel like I'm btwn a rock and a hard place with him. I can't find a Dr. who even wants to talk about yeast. I've considered ThreeLac, as this is not supposed to require such rigid dietary restrictions, but I can just see some headlines appearing about toxic ingredients causing some horrendous thing and I'll know I gave it to my baby (8yr.old) against my Dr's advise. I think I'm going to start out giving him a couple of Bonnie's vitamins, as soon as his stomach seems to have settled, and hope that I see some improvement and gain his confidence that all of "this weird stuff Mom is trying does make a difference. His most active tic right now is one I haven't heard any of you mention-wiggling his ears! Both of the boys seem to have extreme mobility of their scalp, ears and eyebrows. I'm pretty sure they could place fairly high on America's Funniest Videos. We all get to laughing when they get together and try to out do each other.

 

Anyway it sounds like your son did not have the extreme adversion to foods my son has, unless I'm missing something. We have offered him money, a pony, a Corvette, anything to try one bite of something new. I was pretty sure the Vet wouldn't do it by the time I made that offer! Did you have any special method when you started the changes in his diet? Again thanks for your input.

 

Kim

[mmazz]

Hi Kim,

 

For us my sons tics started the same time he had croup. So I used his virus as the excuse not to have junk food. So that gave me a couple/few days to wein him off. I started the supplements a few days after. The B complex increased his appetite and since he was still under the impression that he could not have junk, he filled his belly with other things..I guess out of starvation. I remember talking with the Healthfood Storekeep who actually yelled at me when I told her of my sons diet. Her words still ring in my ears..."Your the mother and you are the one buying this stuff. Of course that is what he will eat..he can't drive to the store. Stop buying that junk and start leaving good food on plates in the frig or on the table. When he is hungry he'll start picking" So that is what I did. Remarkably, it was his brothers hamburger left on the table for a couple of minutes that seemed to wind up in his hands when nobody was looking. That was the first time in 6 years he ate a hamburger, no less because he wanted to. It truley was an amazing day..tics and all. I think that day will be remembered with the likes of holidays or wedding days. So my advise is no food is better than junk food. Nuts, rice crackers with soy cheese or rice cheese, organic apples, fresh squeezed lemon with raw honey. Green tea with raw honey over ice. Soy milk blended with ice and fruit makes a great milkshake. The sky is the limit. Oh...one more thing. Bring him into the kitchen and have him cook, bake, whatever. Let him make a mess and get his hands into the food. We all have a tendancy to lick our fingers or pick at what we are cooking. He might try something new without even thinking and like it. The messier the better!

As for the yeast, no doctors believe the havoc that these buggers can cause. I know for a fact that the bacteria feeds on sugar and when there is no sugar present they attack our body, so the body starts to crave sugar to feed the bateria and the vicious cycle starts all over. It is important that your son eliminate waste from his body daily. Do not use laxatives but rather high fiber raw foods like apples, oranges, carrots, nuts ...whatever. Once he becomes regular and his diet is cleaned up, he will crave other things than sugarry treats. But he can't have what is not in the house!

 

Marie