Re: Valium, gfcf - n

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Dear n,

As you perhaps remember, you have kindly given me the

permission to cite from your website on the gfcf diet with

your son in my autism newspaper in Hungary.

The issue is now out, and many of the readers are considering

or actually beginning the diet with their autistic children,

and sometimes with the whole family.

Thank you for helping them with your very thorough account and

description of every aspect of the diet.

Now as for Valium:

My son has always reacted very well to Valium (diazepam;

Seduxen in Hungary). It has always been a qiuck solution for

his aggressions and/or tantrums, especially if we used the

injectible form, per os.

And he reacts well to the gfcf diet, too. We have reduced

gluten significantly since last August, and he is totally

(more or less...) gf for about 2 months. We were able to

reduce his 32 drops of Haldol/day to 5 drops per day during

this 9 months, and he is much calmer than before the diet. (He

is cf since 1997.)

Valium is working for him NOW (on the few occasions when it is

necessary, usually when he must do something that he is not

willing to do); and had been working BEFORE THE DIET too.

Is there any contradiction here? I mean, what you wrote about

Valium usually causing hyperactivity in autistic children.

I would be very curious to know the pharmacological mechanism

of Valium you refer to.

Thank you again for helping the Hungarian parents with your

precious experiences.

Agnes in Hungary

(Who has been very busy and on no mail for a long time...)

n Klaveness wrote:

> Valium and its family members used to make our son hyperactive instead of

sedated. This was before the diet. It appears that children who need the GFCF

diet, have this kind of reaction far mor often than NT children. The cause is

simple from a pharmacological point of view, and it appears to be so

characteristic that it was one of the first things that Dr. Reichelt asked us

about at the first interview. This was one of the things that convinced us to

try the diet: If this man can predict this kind of weird phenomenon in our son,

then he must be in possession of some very interesting information. It turned

out that he was right....

>

> n Klaveness