Loading... With our son, we took the following approach with his diet and were able to get him off Zantac and solve most of his reflux problems in about 3 months. It took several months of trying to get information about what we should do about his problem and visits to a number of alternative medical practitioners before we started. One naturopath tested him and suggested that in addition to wheat, cows dairy, and sugar, he appeared to be sensitive to a range of other foods including the nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkin), certain meats, herbs such as basil, etc. It was also clear that he was still sensitive to things like eggs and soy because the skin around his mouth would turn red when he ate these things.
So we eliminated virtually everything we could from his diet for a while.
Breakfast went from weet-bix or toast to porridge with goats milk (instead of cows mik), rice syrup (instead of brown sugar), and flax seed oil, which had been recommended to help his eczema as well as generally great for brain development. This was a huge success - he started inhaling a couple of bowls of this every morning!
He loved fruit, but we switched mostly to pears (apples are very high in salicylates which is a common source of food intolerance), melons, bananas, mangoes, grapes.
Lunch and dinner included any green vegetables we could get in (except broccoli which his test showed an intolerance to), rice or rice pasta, corn, carrots, pulses (kidney beans, chick peas), sweet potato.
For meat, we gave him mostly lamb (the least reactive among common red and white meats). For dairy, his milk was switched to goat’s milk and cheese was eliminated.
Within weeks, he was sleeping better, happier, gaining weight and we started to reduce the Zantac. Within 3 months he was Zantac free, and we started to re-introduce other foods into his diet.
