How long before i can expect to see some progress?
Its been almost a week on the diet and its been hard. I’ve pretty muchmade seperate meals for my son and I’d say he only touches about half.He will not touch the rice milk unless I put cocoa in it so I’m afraidhe is not getting enough to eat. (I nervious about giving him too muchsoy because he has had pretty bad reactions to beans) Today my husbandtook him to McD’s and gave him chic. nuggets not realizing they werenot on the diet and he ate several (usually he only eats one or two).H wouldn’t eat his breakfast som I’m sure he was hungry. Anyway,I’mwondering if we’re putting him through this for a good reason. I knowits early but maybe some of you can give me some feedback as to howlong it might be before I’ll see some results.
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Winfred Berno said,
Wrote on March 30, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
I understand how the changes can be overwhelming. We all can. Give itsome time. It may take a few weeks before you see a change and mostsignificant changes will occur after you are completely off glutenand casien. If you wean him off of these foods slowly, it should takethree to four weeks. The slow transition isn’t for him alone. YOUneed the transition and to relearn how ot cook. That’s no small task.I was a gourmet cook before al this started and now I have to reallyput my skills to the test and to be honest it isn’t something I’malways up for either. That’s why I make simple meals.
I had taken my son off of dairy right away the first week. I alsoeliminated, eggs and peanuts and went organic. I cut gluten out ofdinner first, then lunch, then breakfast. I saw my son’s behaviorstart to shift within two weeks of starting, and each week littlethings improved.
There are a lot of supressed emotions that will come out. So just beprepared. He will be dealing with emotions and frustrations he neverexpressed before. A child that never had an opinion about somethingsuddenly does. My son suddenly expressed an opinion about what I woreand asks me all the time to wear skirts, course then I realizedthe “normal” curiosity of a boy to look up a skirt was why, so then Ihad to teach him about what is appropriate behavior and what is not.Communication seems to be a big one. My son’s face gained expressionsit never did, and I discovered he had his mother’s wicked dry senseof humor after all. Who knew? All children are different, but for myson’s his speech articulation, pronoun usage, irregular verb useageand length of sentences improved by 20% for three weeks straight. Ashe continues little things start to emerge and his health improved.He stammered less, started to transition from one activity to anothermore eaily, stimmed less, has virtually no gas now, has a betterappetite, is more agreeable to changes in schedule (though beingdisappointed when his father doesn’t show up for a visit causes himmore grief than it did in the past), has relaxed in his specialinterests and broadened them. There are so many. A lot of his OCDjust seems to be lightening up. Keep the faith and keep your ears andeyes open. You can do this and it will come.
Sandy Lipinsky said,
Wrote on March 31, 2007 @ 3:41 am
I’m sure you’ll get lots of good replys. We’re new to all this as well…starteda fewmonths ago by removing the casein and then removed gluten a few weeks ago. Toanswer your question, from what I’ve learned thusfar, is that it’s hard to tellhow longit will take or if it will work for your child, as each child is different. BUTit does seemthat the majority of children do well ultimately. It can take months however togetthe casein and gluten out of the system. We were fortunate and (I think) did seesomeimmediate changes in my ASD dd, with a completion of potty training almostimmediately (she was almost done but still having that problem of sensing whentogo), some better/more appropriate language and initiation. With my ADHD son wehavent seen a lot but there have been subtle changes I think. His behavior canbepretty wild/lots of rages, gets extremely locked in, etc…and it seems likesome ofthe rough edges have been knocked off. I think that the changes can be subtle,so it’sgood to keep a journal, or a food/mood chart or something. Give it some moretimeand hopefully you’ll start seeing some changes as well (and I was just readingin LisaLewis’ book - reminding re: fast food that a grilled breast of chicken is ok(which I’dforgotten about and it certainly looks better than the burgers in a box we’veoccasionally gotten of late!) Good luck and take care