Monday, July 20, 2009

Any new tips/advice/treatment?

How's everyone doing? I hope better than last time we checked in!

I am now on to a holistic-type of doctor since my traditional pediatrician says that since I've taken out dairy, soy, wheat, eggs, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, beef, pork, corn, tomatoes, and citrus that the next step is to go to a prescription formula since we are still getting bloody diapers.

Well...of course that's not what I want...come on now, if I wanted to go to formula, do you think I would follow above said diet now for almost 5 months? Um...no!

So we go to this new doctor (referred by my DH's co-worker who went through something similar) and he is WONDERFUL! He asked me if I brought in a diaper for him to look at (not even the GI specialist wanted to see a diaper!) and asked me to start writing everything down that I'm eating (which I've been doing and brought along my notebook for him to look at) - and NO doctor has even shown interest in looking through my journal or suggesting that I even keep one! So he wins points right off the bat with me! He looked through my journal and saw 2 things that I should take out....caffeine (I was drinking decaf coffee) and chicken! He wanted me to add back fish (salmon, trout, etc). So that was last Thursday...I stopped caffeine and chicken/meat (I already was pork/beef-free) and added salmon. NO BLOODY DIAPERS! (XXX fingers that now I don't get one!) and he wants to see me this Thursday! I was getting bloody diapers at least every other day...sometimes every day! Oh, and he didn't push me out of his office.....he was very calm and not in a hurry at all. I love him! The first doctor that really seems to care what I'm going through as a parent (worry/guilt/etc)

He said that some babies can not tolerate the protein in meat well...so he thinks that might be the culprit. He also said his top things that he sees are dairy, gluten, citrus, caffeine, alcohol, meat. He said he's not even really too concerned about soy.

So we'll see what he says this Thursday. Hopefully he'll have me add more things back into my diet. I'm dying for some cashews!

So...if anyone is having as many problems as I've had...maybe my little story helps!?! I am hopeful that this doctor will help us be more successful than the previous advice I was getting!