As school opened in September, John could not function at all. He had definitely taken "two steps back" - perhaps four. "I've seen 5 good learning days in the past two months." declared his teacher. "He's falling farther and farther behind academically. And we certainly can't send him to the general ed classroom - not even for gym or music." After so much work, and some genuine victories, it's hard to believe we could be right back where we started from. Yet here we are.
We had brought in many new foods over the summer, with no obvious effects. However, we don't ask him to do much here at home. He plays well with his sisters, and with his friends down the street. That's a far cry from sitting quietly in a classroom and working on math, which is "hard", and "boring". Perhaps we need to get back to basics.
We cut back on salicylates and amines, and also eliminated gluten and dairy. John still looked terrible, and I thought sugar was to blame, so I took that out too. Then he seemed to react to rice. Here we go down the carbohydrate road again. Finally I saw a connection to white potatoes. I removed these, and he improved over night.
Looking back through my records, we gave John some form of potato, often potato chips, almost every day. And when he went gluten free, potato was in everything we baked, either from a gf mix or from scratch. I thought the baked grains produced amines, and then I blamed eggs, then sugar, then carbohydrates in general - but it could be potato. I can't believe how long it takes to figure this stuff out.
NFF: There's nothing wrong with potatoes, except that it is a high carb, low fiber food that feeds the pathogen.