Gluten free necessary if taking vitamins?
We’ve started giving him a multivitamin supplement in September.Wealso give him Vitamin B-6, Magnesium, Vitamin B-12, Zinc, Omega-3 FattyAcids, DMG and Glutathione.We’re new at this GF/CF diet. We’ve removedcasein from his diet but haven’t removed gluten. Everything he eats hasgluten in it and he not will to try other foods.His father doesn’t wantto take away what he eats now until we find something else tosubstitute them with. Well we’ve been trying but it’s hard when werefuses to try anything else.My son’s father agree’s with the GF/Cfdiet. He doesn’t seem to be that worried about our son still eatingfood containing gluten since he is taking these vitamins. He says allthe stuff we’re giving him will help and also kill off the yeast andfungas.My argument is that they may kill off the yeast and fungus butbecause of the gluten,they are replaced with more yeast and fugus.Heagrees but still believes that it’s doing more good than bad and willtake a long time to see significant changes and improvements in our son.Are the vitamins that were giving him now useless since he is stillconsuming foods with gluten in it.
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Shane Dearmond said,
Wrote on January 15, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
The vitamins and minerals are not useless. I do not believe thatgluten causes yeast from what I gathered from our DAN!. A lot oftime children going on the GFCF diet get more yeast b/c it’s easiestto cook with rice flour and potato flour which are both very high incarbs, turn into sugars, and feed the yeast.
Gluten often breaks down in the chlids body as a morphine calledGlutamorphine. This causes an Opioid effect. Sort of like a personwho is on morphine and zoned out a lot. Same as glutamorphine. Ithas been linked to Autistic children “zoning out” and also linked totheir high pain tolerances. Same goes for Casein, it’s calledCasomorphine that can cause the same effects as Gluten. GFCF diet isnot always to “help yeast”. You actually need an anti-yeastsupplement like ThreeLac or Culturelle that can be bought over thecounter. 9 times out of 10 a child on the GFCF diet still has yeastissues until you put them on a medication or supplement to fight theyeast.
If your child is yeasty then I would suggest going GF but avoidingPotato and Rice flours. Stick with Soy (if your child can tolerateit; mine can) and almond flours to cook with.
http://www.namastefoods.com is a great brand to get “pre mixes” forpancakes, vanilla cake, brownies, cookies and muffins.
My son’s only prepackages snacks are:
GFCF pretzels made by Ener-G.www.ener-g.com
He also eats cookies by GlutiNo. http://www.glutino.comOnly buy cookies from their website or from the health food storeb/c most all their other products contain milk. Their shortcakecookies and others are GFCF.
And he also eats Soy Crisps chips. I buy them at wal-mart or Publix.But health food stores carry them too. I only let him have the bar-b-q and apple cinnamon flavors.
Everything I make from scratch. Homemade pizza (i created his recipeand will share if you’d like) homemade pancakes from premixes andalso I make chicken pancakes and puree veggies and make pancakes outof them. I only use honey, no syrup and it does well with my son, noyeast flare ups with it.
I would try GF is the CF is working. He’ll probably be a responderto both. You can read more about the diet at http://www.gfcfdiet.com
Melisa Schumpert said,
Wrote on January 15, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Try giving AFP Peptizyde enzyme with everything he currently eats. Hemight not need gf at all, or it might make him more willing to trysubstitutes if you still want to try gf.
http://www.houstonni.com/
Lots of foods feed yeast, including gluten, rice, corn, potatoes, soy,fruits, basically anything with sugar or carbohydrate.
They are not useless, but your child may or may not need to be gf.