epsom salt baths, red dye, and bad behaviour Questions..

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A week ago last saturday, Josh ran out of Strawberry Quik and started

drinking plain rice milk (major hurdle for us here. He had refused it up

until then.) Then, Josh ran out of epsom salt last Tuesday or Wednesday and

we bought some more last Sunday night. Friday, I realized that his

behaviour over the week prior had been much improved. He was loving and

kissing on me, he hadn't been destructive in several days, he was smiling and

happier, ect. I thought it was because we had removed the Nestle's

Strawberry Quik from his diet (excess sugar, red dye, ect) but I'm beginning

to think that it's from the lack of salt baths. How long does it take for

the removal of red dye to see a change? Would this have been the source of

the behaviour changes?

Yesterday Josh was ALL OVER THE PLACE. Very disorganized. He wrote on my

furniture in blue crayon, he destroyed the playroom in one of his dump

sessions.. Today he wrote on walls with blue chalk (I hid the crayons, but

forgot the sidewalk chalk. LOL), he's been defiant and mad all day..

Has anyone else had this result from epsom salt baths? I don't want to d/c

them if this isn't the problem. The baths are the only things so far that

have helped him have normalish, formed BM's. This week without the salts his

BM's have been mushy and foul and awful (sorry), but I'm today, after bath

#2, beginning to see that turn around. Also, they help him to sleep. He

still wakes during the night, but he does GO to sleep much easier.. I'm just

confused as to which way to go with this.

TIA.

Married to Dan

Mom to:

Dana (3/4/98)

36 week preemie, now a spirited 3 y/o

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(3/26/99)

33 week preemie, now a 2 y.o. growing boy!

mild-moderate autism/hearing impaired

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>How long does it take for

>the removal of red dye to see a change? Would this >have been the source of

>the behaviour changes?

From what I've read and observed, the changes caused by red dye can vary

dramatically for different people. Usually when people take there kids off of

dyes, they notice an improvement anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of

weeks. When people on my Feingold list have " accidents " they notice a problem

anywhere up to 3 days later and the effects can last up to a week (that's

unusually long though).

, mom to Austin, GFCF for 1 week, previously on Feingold for almost a

year, 8 y.o., AS