Oh Hi! I'd love to, (I am having a break from the kitchen while hubby's in there).
I'll give you a little background. Before the diagnoses we tried low Fodmap autoimmune, no onions garlic, grains, dairy, nuts etc. It was worryingly restrictive, but on day one everything changed one normal poo a day. Then she got a bit worse, after about 10 days on this diet. we were giving ketchup, and I THINK that's why with hindsight. Then hospital and colonoscopy time finally arrived. So she was eating jelly sweets, then toast and normal diet after for a couple of days. She then started to get even worse although on Pentasil anti inflammatory. I then started avoiding giving nuts, eggs, wheat etc. after the couple of days of normal diet. I was desperate, and felt sure food has an impact. and then I found SCD, started it and day one back to normal again. My daughters 7 and has mild colitis, although bloody diarrhoea 6 or 7 times a day for months and being anaemic seemed severe to me! I think that is why she responded so fast, because it's "mild" . I don't think it's like that for everyone,it can take longer. Although like you say wind just disappeared!! It makes so much sense. Bad bacteria not being fed.... Here's an outline,
BREAKFAST: Green smoothie, handful of spinach, 1 banana, a 1/3 courgette, 1/2 avocado, 1 tablespoon collagen peptides (Well guard) 1 teaspoon coconut oil). Blended in high powered blender, fibre then seems digestible.
NEXT, STILL BREAKFAST , egg/banana pancake, mashed together with cinnamon, fried in butter. Topped with SCD yoghurt and honey.
SNACK: yoyo bear and satsuma
SCHOOL LUNCH , sliced chicken, mixed with 1/2 avocado, salt and lemon juice and olives and steamed carrots and Broccolli, yogurt for desert, with Blueberries and honey.
or: chicken croquettes, from the book, with same veg as above, or with carrot soup.
That's about it for now, for lunch options, SCD sandwiche bread rolls/bean pancakes soon, but not doing nuts yet(a little in chicken croquettes). I made peanut cookies out of the book and there was bleeding again. Stopped eating them, bleeding stopped.
After school she always wants the egg/banana pancake with yoghurt (sometimes strained and its like cream cheese, loads of protein)
DINNER: tonight omelette, with mushrooms, courgette, cheese and side of spinach. Yoghurt for desert and now an apple.
Her appetite is huge on this diet. I'm about to buy great lakes gelatin to make jelly babies. Bring and share lunch tomorrow so taking roast squash and beet and carrots and burgers (chicken croquettes recipe) and Brussels sprouts. Desert? Bit stuck, fruit and yoghurt. Maybe lettuce leaves with tuna and mayo and peeled cucumber salad instead.
I've made ketchup, simmered passata, (from the book), and frozen it in ice cube tray. I take one or two out when it's burger day. At the moment I'm going to try and make our usual food but modified to no illegal ingredients. I make chips out of celeriac. I make four litres of yoghurt a time in a big Pyrex on a dehydrator. I've been in tears a lot, and it's been really hard, but it's starting to get easier. In hospital last week, there's a sign up asking if you have IBD and it's managed would you be willing to take part in a trial to try and discern the relationship between gut bacreria and the chances of a flare up. I looked it up it's called Protecct crohns and colitis trial. It's already happening and the results will be in next year!! My husbands doing it too, so am I almost, he has IBD, I don't. This probably seems a bit unrealistic(we used to have green smoothies anyway before all this so my daughter is familiar with it). But I have noticed as soon as she's off carbs she isn't even asking for anything she can't have. She's really contented as long as she can eat. I'm going to try red lentil dhal in the next few days, good carbs and iron. My girl is very slim, always was, but on this diet she's absorbing nutrition, and filling out a little!, lots of eggs, so. E cheese, yoghurt, butternut squash, carrots, celeriac chips, extra coconut oil on veggies, oh and I put MCT in smoothies, it's what is in modulin as well!
It's baffling that the consultants say modulin works and they don't know why. But I think they are going to find out soon!!
...Having a young adult is hard!
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