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Nightshade free diet?
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 18:08Topic: Complementary Therapies
Has anyone heard of or tried this for seizure control? I came across a post about it on a facebook epilepsy group and the poster swears by it. However, there is not much info about it on the internet.
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Re: Nightshade free diet?
Submitted by Robin Salmansohn on Tue, 2010-12-28 - 21:54
O.K.. Please post it. Maybe it will help me.
Re: Nightshade free diet?
Submitted by zealot on Tue, 2010-12-28 - 23:00
Here's a link to a WIKI article on NightShades. I avoid them like the plague. A lot of people have problems with them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae
There's a ton of stuff out there on Google. Be careful. Not all of it is accurate.
Good luck. This family is quite allergenic and allergies can cause seizures. Who knows why this works for some people. If it works for you...keep on doing it.
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Re: Nightshade free diet?
Submitted by sofijakalinovska on Tue, 2010-11-30 - 06:42
A.H. we are now 3.5 months into the nightshade-free diet and still seizure free!!! If anyone else is willing to try it - PLEASE let me know, I will help in any way I can!
it's simply eliminating foods of the nightshade family. This includes tomatoes, potatoes, all peppers - sweet and hot, paprika, eggplant, goji or wolf berries, tomatillos, ground cherries, jicamas, and there are more that I'm not familiar ...with.The hard part is that these foods are in almost everything as far as processed foods go. Watch for ingredients such as modified food starch, spice extractives, natural flavor. They usually contain a nightshade food.
A.H. we are now 3.5 months into the nightshade-free diet and still seizure free!!! If anyone else is willing to try it - PLEASE let me know, I will help in any way I can!
it's simply eliminating foods of the nightshade family. This includes tomatoes, potatoes, all peppers - sweet and hot, paprika, eggplant, goji or wolf berries, tomatillos, ground cherries, jicamas, and there are more that I'm not familiar ...with.The hard part is that these foods are in almost everything as far as processed foods go. Watch for ingredients such as modified food starch, spice extractives, natural flavor. They usually contain a nightshade food.