Primary sucrase isomaltase deficiency

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Yet another reason why my aunt thinks I'm daft to be eating primarily fruits,

and " making " my boy do the same. One of my cousins, the eldest of 3 boys, this

particular aunt's sons, was diagnosed with " Primary sucrase isomaltase

deficiency " as an infant, as he was losing weight, and had bloody poops, etc.

She was told not to feed him fruit, but a high protein diet (which

recommendation was revised a couple of years later after they noticed it was

damaging his kidneys...oops!), and then he seemed to be on a high starch diet, a

lot of bread and pasta and rice. My mum remembers him eating a LOT as a child,

and he was a bit chubby until he was about 15 or 16, when someone made a rather

cruel comment about his weight, and he became anorexic (both food-wise and

exercise-wise). He still seems a bit nervous about eating, particularly in his

body language, and works out a lot, but is toned rather than bulky in his

muscles. He's also had a lot of injuries, and a lot of damage to his spine,

which makes working out rather painful, I'm sure.

 

Anyway, time enough to try to help him when I've helped myself and have energy

for both. I'm just wondering, firstly, exactly what this condition is - I'm

assuming from its description that it means he lacks sucrase (sucrose enzyme)

and isomaltase (another enzyme); and exactly what that means in terms of raw

food or 80-10-10, or a diet comprised mostly of fruits. Are there really people

out there who just CANNOT eat fruit at all? I know people who have allergies to

particular fruits (my brother and bananas for example, though I'm curious as to

what would happen if he did go raw, whether he could eat bananas then), but they

can at least eat -some- fruits. I just find it hard to get my head around

someone being totally unable to eat the foods we were apparently designed to

eat, specially a person who is otherwise whole and healthy, or was, at birth.

 

Caron