Diet - (was: This diet is doing remarkable things for)

[Guest guest]

,

When you say your son is on the " diet " , are you referring to removing

gluten and casein, or have you looked at removing other common

offenders like soy, corn, potatoes? When we started the diet we saw

significant improvements, but upon introducing foods he'd never had

before like soy, bean flours and increasing corn and potatoes, he lost

the gains we had initially seen. For my son, just removing gluten and

casein is not enough. He is on a gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free,

soy-free, potatoe-free diet. He also can not tolerate ANY fruits

whatsoever.

Ricci

" Booth " wrote:

> We recently had an experience that convinced us this diet is

necessary for

> our son. In the course of one day, he was accidentally given regular

> margarine and also snuck a crust of regular bread.

>

> Let me back track and say that before this diet, he was waking up,

on

> average, four nights a week at around 1 or 2 a.m. When he woke up,

he would

> be laughing hysterically, squealing and getting increasingly

excited. He

> would be awake for three hours, usually, and nothing would get him

back to

> sleep before that. We would take turns going in to lay with him, to

make

> sure he stayed in bed and didn't spend his time leaping off the top

of the

> furniture.

>

> Since the diet started, he sleeps through the night practially

without

> fail. On the few occasions that he has awakened, my husband and I

were

> astounded that he would make a few quiet noises and then go back to

sleep by

> himself!

>

> Now, to the night after the infractions: that night, and for three

nights

> following, he was again awake at 1 or 2 a.m., got increasingly loud

and

> excited, needed one of us in the room with him, and was awake for

three

> hours. This was two weeks ago, and since the third night after the

> infraction, he has again been sleeping through the night.

>

> I have to admit we have been disappointed that this diet has not

brought a

> miraculous change in our son's communication or chronic diarrhea.

However,

> the mere fact that his sleeping is better is enough to keep us

plugging

> along!

>

> Just wanted to share,

>

>

> > >.......For 36 hours he bit, hit and roared.

> > > For 48 or so hours he had a bright red

> > > allergy ring. And his bm's still have not

> > > settled down....

> > >........

> > >..stopped talking and spent a few days hitting,

> > > biting, standing on his head.

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi, Ricci:

At present we are GFCF (GF almost 4 months, CF over a year). We also

greatly restrict his corn, tomatoes, bananas, apples and other fruit juices

except pears. We haven't yet tried removing soy, but that's our next planned

step (along with trying to completely remove corn). I haven't heard of

potatoes being a potential problem...can you give more information about

that?

I don't know what I'd do without this group -- go crazy, I suppose!

Take care,

Diet - (was: This diet is doing remarkable things

for)

> ,

> When you say your son is on the " diet " , are you referring to removing

> gluten and casein, or have you looked at removing other common

> offenders like soy, corn, potatoes? When we started the diet we saw

> significant improvements, but upon introducing foods he'd never had

> before like soy, bean flours and increasing corn and potatoes, he lost

> the gains we had initially seen. For my son, just removing gluten and

> casein is not enough. He is on a gluten-free, dairy-free, corn-free,

> soy-free, potatoe-free diet. He also can not tolerate ANY fruits

> whatsoever.

>

> Ricci