No symptoms
My son is PDD-NOS. He is on Concerta forattention, as well as a bunch of vitamin supplements. Long storyshort, I took him to a homeopathic doctor for some testing, as Isuspected gut problems might be there, even though he had no GIsymptoms, other than autistic-like behaviors and learningdisabiities. He did take forever to potty train (almost 4), but hadconsistent ear infections and was on every antibiotic known to man,for almost a year at one point. The homeopathic DR. came back andsaid he had candida as well as some vitamin and mineraldeficiencies. He did not specifically recommend the gfcf diet; thatis to say he didn’t tell me to do it, but to look into it. I’mwondering here, is there anyone else out there who had mild symptomslike I have mentioned but still found improvement on the diet? Or domost of you do it because of irritable bowels and obvious reactionsto gluten and casein? I’m finding it pretty overwhelming, but willdo what I have to for him. But, like everybody else, if I don’t haveto……well, you know.
This post tagged as: testing gluten, gluten problem, gluten candida
Wesley Marske said,
Wrote on April 2, 2007 @ 1:04 am
Although the gf/cf diet stopped my son’s loose bowels (he had alwayshad them, 5 years), the greatest benefits as far as I feel were the following: improved eye contact, recognition of peers (had previously ignored them),wanting to communicate, sleeping at night, eating a wider variety of foods,growing (he had always been very small for his age, although no overly thin) Hehas grown 5 clothing sizes in the past 18 months, feeling pain, able to followdirections, pointing at things, imitation play, etc……
Now, after 18 months on gf/cf and partial Feingold diets and a great team at hisschool, Connor is talking in sentences, participates in group activaties atschool, plays with peers in the playground, etc…. we still have a long wayto go but it is soooooo worth the effort.
NODqAuon said,
Wrote on December 7, 2007 @ 12:34 am
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