The Food Intolerance Network has informational sheets on 31 disorders that can be helped with removing salicylates from the diet. Salicylates are found in foods from plants: most fruit, some vegetables, herbs, spices, tea and flavor additives. For example, citrus fruit, berries, tomato sauce and mint flavoring are naturally high in salicylates and so are processed foods with those flavors. Salicylates are also […]
Daily musings
You just said WHAT?
Food, food, food… argh every time I tell myself never again and it’s gone in a second. He looks at me with his pleading eyes, or tells me “I just want to be like them Mum” and I cave. So he ate Chinese noodles… big mistake. He ate the noodles on Saturday night, on Sunday […]
A day in the life…
Just what is it that makes us drive all over the place, spend our retirement and consider enrolling in one therapy after another and another? This was written on 8/10/11: 7:00 am up and grouchy, breakfast takes about 15 minutes to decide. Usually we get waffles (gluten free of course) or scrambled eggs. We also […]
Pfeiffer Treatment Center will no longer be providing patient care.
2013: Please read the post in it’s entirety in addition to the comment section below for new information that has come to light since we attended the center in 2008. The facility we went to and wrote about is no longer open. To my knowledge we never met with Dr. Anubrolu and this doctor would need further due diligence on […]
Some weeks are easy and some are just plain hard!
Last week was a particularly bad week. It got steadily worse as he ate his way through several foods on his ‘intolerant list’. It was only after the donuts from a well known “the lights are on” donut shop that things really took a turn downwards. I know, I know, totally under my control but sometimes … […]