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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 645265" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am so glad this works for your family. I know it can be hard to stick to a diet like that, and am so glad that your daughter likes the way she feel on the diet. In your case, the diet really is a medicine for her. Not all kids react to it but when it works it can be incredible. My children did not get results from the diet. I have health issues that often improve on those diets and mine didn't either. We all committed to the diets for six mos and saw zero improvements and in fact things got worse for my son. So they don't work for everyone just as no medication works for everyone.</p><p></p><p>I am just thrilled that they work for your family. It is SOOO amazing when it works, isn't it? My youngest has food allergies/sensitivities. The docs think he outgrew them, but he LOATHES the taste of most of what he is allergic to so he won't even attempt them. Plus when he has accidentally gotten 2 of them, his ears and cheeks got all red and his cheeks were rough and scaly for 5 days, and it scared him. </p><p></p><p>It sure is a TON easier when the child is compliant with the treatment, whatever the treatment is. Over time, be sure to talk with your daughter about how her diet makes her feel better and allows her to be her true self. This will help with compliance through the teen years and into the adult years. We talked with my difficult child (oldest) about his medications from the earliest days. We said that how he felt was important and if he was sick or felt odd or bad he had to tell us but that taking the medications was an adult decision that Mom and Dad made because we knew all the long term complications. I read every package insert for years just so that difficult child knew I did keep up with them because that let him feel safe complying with his medications. Even as stubborn and rebellious as my difficult child was, we had zero medication refusal from him. I believe it was because we started even back when he didn't show problems with this type of discussion. I had an aunt who let her 2yo son refuse Tylenol when he had a 103.5 fever because seh didn't want to 'upset him' and I saw this as crazy and stupid. So I started letting my child know he could not refuse medications or I would 'pill him like the cat' because I knew the medications were in his best interest. While my aunt had problems for decades with her son and the boy ended up seriously ill several times for refusing antibiotics and other medications, none of my kids ever pulled that garbage.</p><p></p><p>In your daughter's case, discussing her diet like medicine and discussing how much it makes her FEEL better and like herself will help reduce the chances of cheating and refusal in the future when she rebels against you as a natural part of growing up. Just my thoughts, for what they are worth!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 645265, member: 1233"] I am so glad this works for your family. I know it can be hard to stick to a diet like that, and am so glad that your daughter likes the way she feel on the diet. In your case, the diet really is a medicine for her. Not all kids react to it but when it works it can be incredible. My children did not get results from the diet. I have health issues that often improve on those diets and mine didn't either. We all committed to the diets for six mos and saw zero improvements and in fact things got worse for my son. So they don't work for everyone just as no medication works for everyone. I am just thrilled that they work for your family. It is SOOO amazing when it works, isn't it? My youngest has food allergies/sensitivities. The docs think he outgrew them, but he LOATHES the taste of most of what he is allergic to so he won't even attempt them. Plus when he has accidentally gotten 2 of them, his ears and cheeks got all red and his cheeks were rough and scaly for 5 days, and it scared him. It sure is a TON easier when the child is compliant with the treatment, whatever the treatment is. Over time, be sure to talk with your daughter about how her diet makes her feel better and allows her to be her true self. This will help with compliance through the teen years and into the adult years. We talked with my difficult child (oldest) about his medications from the earliest days. We said that how he felt was important and if he was sick or felt odd or bad he had to tell us but that taking the medications was an adult decision that Mom and Dad made because we knew all the long term complications. I read every package insert for years just so that difficult child knew I did keep up with them because that let him feel safe complying with his medications. Even as stubborn and rebellious as my difficult child was, we had zero medication refusal from him. I believe it was because we started even back when he didn't show problems with this type of discussion. I had an aunt who let her 2yo son refuse Tylenol when he had a 103.5 fever because seh didn't want to 'upset him' and I saw this as crazy and stupid. So I started letting my child know he could not refuse medications or I would 'pill him like the cat' because I knew the medications were in his best interest. While my aunt had problems for decades with her son and the boy ended up seriously ill several times for refusing antibiotics and other medications, none of my kids ever pulled that garbage. In your daughter's case, discussing her diet like medicine and discussing how much it makes her FEEL better and like herself will help reduce the chances of cheating and refusal in the future when she rebels against you as a natural part of growing up. Just my thoughts, for what they are worth! [/QUOTE]
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