4 year old terror -revisited

September 10, 2008

Besides the typical punching, hitting, throwing things all day that we¢re used to,

my Zack is now into biting things (the furniture, people, and as of

today...the vacuum cords). I almost had a dining chair and computer monitor thrown

at me. Thankfully, he couldn¢t lift the monitor, and my dh got to him in

time to stop the chair.

We give him alone time in his room when I can see a mood starting, but

he just takes it out in there. Throwing whatever he can towards whoever

or whatever, and/or violently hitting himself. It really has never

"helped".

Unforunately, we don¢t have a spare room to have empty for him. Even

so, he would be in it all day (I¢m NOT exaggerating). Its become

rediculous.

We got his food allergy results and found that he is allergic to wheat,

casein, egg, and soy. We¢ve also learned that he has high yeast in his

bacteria (as well as other new results that I haven¢t talked to his DAN

about yet). We¢ve been weaning him onto a GFCFEFSF diet for a couple

weeks (been on DAN protocol/supps for 2 months). I know part of the

problem is his body "detoxing" so to speak, but still. I knew it would

get worse before better...but ugggg.

Its horrible. I¢m at a complete loss. As of now we do the occasional

time-out (otherwise, he would ALWAYS be in time out), quiet time, and

ignoring what I can¢t deal with at the moment. I do the hugging

(although its hard because he hates it and is very strong). We also do

what we can to eliminate stress (brushing, picture schedule, emotion

board, etc).

I had hoped once school started, he¢d get better (with the routine and

all). NOPE! Its been worse because he¢s so tired after school.

I don¢t know what, if anything more we can do. He see¢s his doctor (DAN) on Friday, assuming I make it till then.

I KNOW that it is not his fault, I just don¢t know what to do! To top

it off, my Mikey (ASD,3) is starting to copy...and Zack copies some of

Mikey...like the biting. Mikey¢s always been a biter, and has been

biting furniture for about a month. Mikey is constantly getting abused

by Zack though and in turn hits back and then hits when he is

frustrated.

Any ideas or words of wisdom would be great! Please tell me this won't last forever!

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