SI diet

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My friend with SI child can tell from his behavior if he accidently got

milk product at pre-school or something. She saw positive results

with-in about 5 days of eliminating casin from diet. He is diagnosed

with SI and apraxia. He has been on this diet for past 2 years and with

3 kids that is really difficult to maintain so his Mom is now trying to

add some of foods back slowly. She has been noticing things like milk

chocolate quickly results in melt downs but regular chocolate doesn't

bother him at all. I have also read that casin free diets are being

experimented with on some psych patients-just schizophrenia if I

remember right. I also read quite a while ago of SI Mom who had blood

levels tested on her child who was on casin free and I think wheat free

too for over year and when they ran tests they still found some of both

in his body which would indicate that some people are unable to process

it properly. I have also heard it works well on ADD kids(but so many SI

kids end up being diagnosed as ADD later that may be why).When I briefly

was considering it for either apraxic ds or older ADHD ds I know there

is a lot of information on it on the Internet but in fairness that has

been probably 1 1/2 yrs ago and I don't remember the details anymore. I

decided it wouldn't help apraxic ds and might help ADD ds but he is

doing pretty well and it would be a real hassle. Dawn

Dawn,

I never heard this in terms of sensory issues. I know that it works

well for some autistic kids who have sensory issues, but had not

heard of this in terms of SI without autism. Does that makes sense?

denise

> ,

> SI kids tend to be better on casin (milk free) diets. You might try

soy

> milk for awhile and see if that helps.

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