Food allergies

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In a message dated 10/25/2006 8:18:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

hamburgpatti@... writes:

BUT, I do think that there are some

very subtle but positive changes. He's making more eye contact, more

purposeful choices and communicating (non verbally) his needs better. He's

looking

at books more, he notices things like birds and airplanes, where as he never

did before in his life. We've only been on the diet for about 6 weeks -- so

I

think it's too early to really tell, but I'm going to keep at it a bit

longer.

Good luck.

Patty,

In order to know for sure if there are any changes you really need to do

data collection it's much more reliable and gives you a good way to track the

progress or recognize triggers etc. Trisha does not have any food allergies

either and she tests negative for celiac each time as well. I see changes in

her without being on a special diet so if I was to put her on a special diet

I'd have to do data collection to be sure it was from the diet and not from

just naturally growing up or maturing or some other reason. :-) She is on a

slew of medicines for other health problems and I keep records of what she

takes, when, any changes in behavior or any physical changes out of the

ordinary, rashes etc. so that when we do have a problem I can look to see when

it

started, what the symptom is and start removing the medicine one at a time that

looks like it might be the culprite without having to second guess most of

the time. It's the same with putting them on diets, it's hard to know if it's

helping if data isn't being taken on it.

Sue: While I doubt putting anyone on a GF diet would hurt, if he isn't

having any issues and he loves bread so much why would you want to put him on

the

diet? Are there other areas you are hoping it might help with? Just

curious. I'm from the old addage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. lol

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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Hi everyone. I understand that there is a lot of issues with Autism

and allergies to gluten. I had my son tested for a lot of different

food allergies and everything came back normal. He's 10 with DS and

recently diagnosed with Autism. Would it be of any benefit to try him

on a gluten free diet? He absolutely loves bread. He doesn't have any

major behavior issues - just mostly stubborn, but can be motivated to

cooperate usually. Has anyone tried it without known allergies? If so

what were the results. Thanks Sue.