Judgement Day - Yeast was found

April 7th

My now 7 year old daughter has been battling multiple medical issues since she's been 4 years old.  She's been poked and prodded by numerous doctors and none of them have found the cause of her illnesses.  I finally found an environmental doctor in Northern Va. whom I had high hopes for.  I felt that if anyone could figure out what was wrong with my daughter, it would be this gentleman.

I met with the doctor to get the results of Jeannette's blood work and other tests.  The doctor told me that she had yeast in her system, amongst a load of other environmental toxins.  I had a feeling that maybe she had yeast and I guess that's why I started her on a low carb diet a few months back.  I hadn't eliminated carbs completely, but I limited them.  I was trying to keep her intake below 20 g of carbs per serving of whatever she was eating.  I even got her off pasta and found soy noodles that she could eat.  I was also surprised to find out about the toxins in her system.

After I left the doctors office, I knew I had a bit of research to do.  I immediately contacted the nutritionist that works in this particular doctors office.  If I was going to be making such a huge change in Jeannette's diet, I was going to need some serious help, and I needed someone who was familiar with this type of diet.  I also started to scour the web about Candida.  I wanted to know all there was to know.  I wanted to know what it was, how one gets it, if there were any ideas about how to deal with Candida for kids and especially try to find some recipes for things that I thought Jeannette might like.  I found a few sites that were really helpful and I started printing off recipes to get us started.  What I was disappointed about was the fact that there weren't any sites specifically geared towards kids with Candida.  I found a few blogs that mentioned children, but not enough to help me get a better handle on Jeannette's situation.  I wasn't feeling very confident about putting my daughter on this very rigorous and restricted diet.

I got busy and shopped at our local Wegman's first because I knew they had a great natural foods section where I could find gluten free items and hopefully some yeast free items.  After having spent $160, I came out of the store with a ton of new ingredients that I'd never heard before.

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be one of those parents with kids required to be on a special diet.  I always felt so lucky that I didn't have to deal with all the stress and anxiety about what to feed my kids.  It's bad enough on a daily basis to feed my extremely picky carbohydrate eaters.  We continuously have battles at the dinner table about eating and trying new foods.  I get bombarded with questions about what we're having for dinner when they get home from school.  I get so stressed about it that I just answer them with a "I don't know yet."  I just don't want to deal with the whining and complaining about a meal I haven't prepared yet and food they haven't even tried.

I am also concerned about the regimen of supplements that Jeannette is now going to have to be on to boost and replenish her immune system.  With all these new food restrictions, and the fact that Jeannette doesn't take pills, how am I going to get these supplements into her system?