Thank you for your post! My children are 12 and 8. My 8 year old is a very senstive child, our 12 year old (not very sensitive and very outspoken) knows what it was like before IBS. Kristin, my 12 year old, likes to get at me -- mother/daughter issues. Any way she can get under my skin she does  The preteen years  We also have the rule, what I fix you have to eat and there is no other option later on. I am not fixing anything foreign or unusual.
Do you ever fix things that have tofu or soy cheese in them? I have been scared to try anything like that with them.
I have used the illustration, that if I had diabetes you would be understanding of my diet and accept it. Their response has been, that is different that can kill you. Society understands diabetes and accepts it for what it is.
IBS is not always the easiest thing to explain, eat IF first and then you can have your SF carefully. SF, dairy and wheat can be GI stimulant's so you have to be very careful to not get things going. It is such a different thinking that I don't think people always take you seriously. My mother-in-law has IBS D, but she does nothing for it -- just lives in continual pain and diarreah, I suggested Heather's diet and she scrunched up her face and said that is so unhealthy that can't help and she continued eating her salad,later on D hit hard and she had gas pains. She still won't listen to me.
Thanks again for your post --- it is so good to hear from others and get what is working for them in their families.
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