An honest place where autism, GFCF diet, and poop meet. This is the sister site to Tori's GFCF Blog. [Note: The images here are obviously graphic in nature. The purpose is not to be gross or funny -- any parent dealing with autism spectrum disorders and/or the gluten-free casein-free (GFCF) diet knows that poop is of primary concern. My goal here is to establish a place where our poop photos can help each other compare and contrast and thereby help our kids.]
Monday, May 26, 2008
Black Specs
Source: 3 year-old SPD boy
Style: Unformed, watery. Diarrhea with a few chunks of undigested food (corn?). Tons of little black specs; looks like black pepper throughout. Also a few black "seeds" and some white "seeds."
Notes: Child has had virus/stomach bug for 2 days. Ate very minimally throughout the day. Behavior was great.
Stomach Virus
Source: 3-year old SPD boy
Style: Diarrhea, unformed, undigested food (beans and corn).
Notes: Over the course of a day, the child's poop went from diarrhea with chunks of undigested food (beans and corn) to thick watery diarrhea to thinner watery diarrhea. I am suspecting a viral stomach bug because this child's sibling got the same thing the next day. Vomiting also occurred.
Undigested food
Partially formed, partially mushy
Dual-colored, hard and mushy
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Yeast Die-Off/Oxalate Dump
Source: 17-month old girl
Style: Unformed, black specks, yellow cheese-like strings, gritty
Notes: Hundreds of black specks, and a few yellow cheese-like strings. It was very gritty too, which I [the contributor] believe to be an oxalate dump, based on some research. She is on an almost exclusive diet of Neocate infant formula, with a small amount of stage 1 baby foods as well, so this is definitely not something she's eaten passed out in the stool. A brief history: she's been on probiotics for 5 months, and biotin and magnesium for 6 weeks. We first started seeing signs of yeast in her stools 3 weeks after starting the biotin/magnesium. She is 24.5 lbs, 17.5 months old, and currently taking 3,500 mcg biotin twice a day, 100 mg magnesium twice a day and Ther-Biotic Infant Formula probiotic (a strep-free probiotic) from Klaire labs. Her chronic constipation (since 2 months of age) seems to be gone (hooray!) and her mood, demeanor and sleep are much improved.
Contributed by: Sheri
Formed, Dark
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Dark, Gritty
Source: Undiagnosed boy, 2 yrs 9 mos old, possibly SPD. Also has dopa-responsive dystonia.
Style: Gritty and dark
Notes: Poop has never been this color before. Boy started Omega 3-6-9 oil the day prior. Boy has been GFCF for a while but started SCD diet a few days before this picture was taken.
Submitted by: Jennie
Comments sought?: Yes.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Very Dark Mush; Gritty
Source: 3-year old SPD boy
Style: Dark, hard mush. First part that came out (hard to see here) may have been formed and coiled like a snake on top of itself with the mush on top. This was dark like dark chocolate. Looks "gritty."
Notes: Child had strep but it had not yet been diagnosed, so was on no antibiotics at the time.