My Beautiful Boy

Just got back from the naturopath.

The naturopath took a blood sample and looked at it under the microscope and put it on the TV screen, that was so good. She said his blood isn’t unhealthy but she can definitely see that there is something diet related going on. The red blood cells should be floating around individually, like 2 negative magnets that when they meet they repel each other. Corey blood cells are joining together and so aren’t moving around as freely as they should be. She said this happens when you eat foods that your body is sensitive too and therefore can’t process and so it sends out these positive things that then make the blood cells stick together.

She also saw this big orange thing that looked like a ball of fire on the screen (it was really amazing to watch) and she said that is leaky gut. She said that is a partical that has gone through the stomach lining into the blood stream. She said there was also something in the blood culture that showed that his liver isn’t processing as well as it should be.

So we are putting him on this elimination diet and she has also put him on acidophilus to fix the leaky gut (she said that leaky gut is very common in children in the Autism Spectrum Disorder category), she said to keep taking the fish oil tablets and she may increase his dosage for a little while to fix up any problems and then put him back to the normal recommended dosage. He also has to take a childrens multivitamin particularly for the B vitamins which will help the liver and also zinc to help the leaky gut. And she put him on a herbal supplement that is called Neuro Care for Kids which is to help with the behaviour and it helps calm his whole nervous system.

The elimination diet is for wheat, sugar and color additives for two weeks and then re-introduce them one at a time and see how we go with that. She also tested his blood type which is type O and she said that people with different blood types process different foods differently. The O blood type, the main things to watch out for that the body doesn’t process too well are wheat, gluten and sweetcorn. I think I’m an O blood type – not sure.

They can do an actual allergy test which costs around $250 but we thought we’ll try all this first and see how we go. I think while I’m doing the diet I might as well do all three of the kids on it (maybe even myself) and re-introduce the foods to all of them just to see if the others have any reactions also. Certainly wouldn’t hurt.

So that’s my update today, I have to do my grocery shopping soon which I’m not looking forward to since I have to buy all new types of food. It will be quite hard without sugar since most things these days tend to have sugar in them. I think I may run down the book shop and see if there are any good recipe books for wheat free and sugar free foods.

I have hope again, I know these diets are hard and I’ve failed the last time but now that I have someone helping me and someone that I have to report back to with it I think it will be better. Fingers crossed these things are going to make a difference.

Take care
Sheryl

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