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Dr. Sears elimination diet

mrsfireflymrsfirefly
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Has anyone done it?  According to The Fussy Baby and High Needs Child book it involves just eating turkey, lamb, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green & yellow squash, & rice milk and grains for a week or two and then gradually reintroducing foods that could cause sensitivities.  I am thinking of doing it because we just discovered LO has a soy sensitivity after I had a bunch of soy milk this weekend.  My LO is extremely high needs/fussy, so I guess I'm pulling at straws but am thinking maybe food sensitivities could play a role.  If anyone has done this and your LO's temperament was affected, I'd love to hear about it.  Thanks!
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  • jazzyagjazzyag

    I tried it, but it didn't do much for DD, we went from 8-10 wakings a night to 7-8, and no change during the day.  It could work for you if your LO does have sensitivities, but i guess it just showed me that DD didn't have any.  It really took the joy out of food though, and I went off it after 4 weeks.

    I did learn that Millet is a great breakfast grain though.

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  • missjade21missjade21
    Have you given up dairy? I would try that first. My LO was very fussy and after giving up dairy and soy she's like a different baby. I would have done the whole elimination diet had that not made a difference, but it definitely did. GL!
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    I've done it twice. First time I did chicken instead of turkey, thinking it wouldn't make a big difference. Well, turns out Ari is allergic to chicken. Second time we had just done another round of allergy patch testing, where Ari flagged as allergic to nearly everything (it was like 13 out of 15 patches I think), we pulled all of that plus the 8 I was already avoiding & he was still getting sick. I ended up doing the TED but no regular potatoes (they had tested +), oatmeal & apples were okay (he tested -), no rice for the first 3 (he had a faint irritation).

    I stayed on it for about a week & a half. It was hell, I'm not going to lie, but we were looking at pulling all foods & having to wean to Neocate only. Those were very dark days. I was bawling every day & Ari was a mess. Anyway, we started introducing one item back every 2 days. If he reacted, we waited an extra 2 days at least. I was able to add back a few of the foods he had tested allergic to but not many. The biggest thing was that I was able to get him symptom free so I could at least figure out what the hell was going on. I was also able to pinpoint a few oddball things that bother him, like Sodium Benzoate - a common preservative in  medicines & boxed foods. We'd given up boxed foods but ended up having to have ibuprofen specially compounded b/c of it. It gives him hives & diarrhea. I would've never have figured that out w/o the TED.

    Anyway, this was kind of long, but my advice would be do soy & dairy first. If you see absolutely no improvement after 4-5 days, do the TED, unless you have a very good idea what's going on. Either the soy/dairy elimination or the TED if there's something else going on should show you some improvement after 4-5 days - maybe not symptom free, but at least something. You don't have to stay on a TED for more than 2 weeks, in fact its not recommended.

    Keep us posted. I post a food sensitivity check in on Monday, come join us.  

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