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, July 21, 2008
Black Strings
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Source: 20-month old girl. Mom says, "She is as of yet undiagnosed. Her older brother is ASD/Asperger's syndrome. She isn't showing much in terms of ASD symptoms other than severe GI enterocolitis symptoms, reflux, GERD, food intolerance, etc. We are sure we would see ASD symptoms if she wasn't on Neocate or if we had continued to vaccinate her further."
Style: Unformed, diarrhea with black strings.
Notes: Mom reports: "She has been off of all yeast protocol supplements (Klaire Ther-Biotic Infant formula probiotics and 5mg biotin twice a day) for the past 8 days because we are in the middle of collecting stool samples for a complete stool analysis. She has been in obvious GI pain with a lot of posturing and seeking belly pressure. Her sleep is terrible. This morning she passed a loose bowel movement with some yellowish cheesy looking clumps and numerous long black strings. Since her diet is >95% Neocate elemental formula, we are very sure that this is NOT something she has eaten passing out undigested. We are wondering about yeast, bacteria, parasites?? We have never seen the black strings before.
Submitted by: Sheri
did she eat bananas? Bananas produce black strings in the poop.
ReplyDeleteThanks, My 7 month old son's diarrhea looks very similar to this and he had banana porridge yesterday
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