Gluten free diet blog

Hi… I am new to this group and have a 5 yo son with Aspergers. Iam running into some questions/roadblocks with the diet and thoughtyou may be able to provide guidance on or constructive criticism forhow I am progressing with things.

Some background…

At this point, he have been casein free for a month and have GREATLYreduced the gluten. We completed testing throught Great Plains Labwhich indicated issues with a possible yeast overgrowth and vitamindeficiencies. In doing one change at a time to pinpoint where ourissues lie, I have added 350mg/day of B6 and am about to add the nextvitamin.

My son’s outward signs are an ongoing rectal prolapse for the past 2yrs as well as dark circles around his eyes which have gotten morepronounced in the past 2-3 wks. The prolapse seems to not happenEVERY time as it had always in the past… so, possible progress here.

My plans are to continue with the diet and vits/supps while alsostarting probiotics/antifungals. As of yet, I have seen no realchanges but very hopeful.

One interesting possible affect on this normally great sleeper isthat he has had about 3 nights in the past 2-3 weeks where I foundhim wandering around the house wide awake until 12am. This had NEVERhappened before.

My questions are…

1. I’m assuming the fact that the eye circles are darker meanssomething in relation to where we are with the diet??? … andpossibly that the phenol foods may play into this?? Any insight here?

2. I want to make sure I am progressing correctly with things. Am Ibest to continue adding the supps/vits individually while getting thediet totally GF, and THEN start probiotics/antifungals?

3. Is is best for my son to have a completely sugar free and starchfree diet BEFORE starting the probiotics/antifungals part???

4. Dumb question… we are using Vance’s Dari-Free. Is there apotato-starch-sugar issue with using this milk sub?

5. Can most all vits be ground up and put into most hot or coldfoods?

6. Forgot to mention, excema patches… a major increase in these inthe past month. Any insight on this??

Thank you for reading. If you have any advice or re-direction forme, I would love to hear it!!!