SV: Re: reintroducing gluten

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How can we know the true effects of a gluten or casein challenge unless the asd

child has fully recovered first?

1. What is recovery ? For me, recovery is not to wind the clock backwards and

then forwards again, to arrive at where an individual would have been without

the illness. Recovery is a change in the speed and/or direction in the

patient's development. Most commonly, you get " partial recoveries " , meaning

that there is a significant change to the better. When we say " full recovery " ,

we imagine that we have arrived at a state of affairs that might have been

obtained even if the illness had not intervened.

2. Interpreting the effects of a gluten or casein challenge can be very

difficult. It might be just as difficult for a " fully recovered " as it is for a

" partially recovered " patient.

The initial effect of the gluten or casein might be zero (healed gut &

re-established enzyme system), or zero for a while (same reasons, but more

vulnerable), or positive for a while (until adaption has taken place). I'm

sorry I don't have time to write about this more fully, now, but you can look it

up in my web pages....

Yours

n Klaveness

www.advimoss.no/GFCF_results.htm

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Dato: 4. april 2001 09:23

Emne: Re: reintroducing gluten

>I know how we all long to stop reading every label and searching out

>hidden gluten (and casein). For newbies to gfcf, it might be helpful

>to put those ideas aside for now and concentrate on the diet. The

>truth is that there are no long term studies yet on whether ASD kids

>can ever return to a nongfcf way of life. n will probably pop

>in shortly with info on the one, small follow-up done by Dr. Reichelt.

>Some teens in the study had psychotic episodes, as has at least one

>gfcf kid on this list. (Incidentally, some adults with CD have been

>misdiagnosed with mental illness, but returned to health when the

>glutenfree.)

>

>Something I've wondered about with all these posts about

>reintroducing g and/or c: how can we know the true effects of a

>gluten or casein challenge unless the asd child has fully recovered

>first?

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