do more severely affected children benefit more from the diet?

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know if it is the more severely affected children that benefit most

from the diet? My son's ATEC was only 43, which isn't too terribly bad.

" Overwhelmed " would be a good word for me right now....I have no idea which

direction to go in with all of this. (On top of everything else going on in my

life right now!)

Love,

Kirstin <><

Wife to Bobby (7 years)

Momma to Grant (4.5), Caleb (3), Libby (1.25), and " Lil' Bit " (due 4/26/02)

I sell books kids love!!!

I'm an Usborne Books at Home Independent Consultant!

http://usbornekirstin.tripod.com/

[Guest guest]

Kirstin,

I am looking at the data compiled for the gfcfdiet board (by n,

I believe) right now from their new publication on Dietary

Intervention which would make a lovely Christmas gift for someone.

From what I can tell, you have just as much chance of seeing

improvement from the diet as a person with a much higher ATEC score

(someone correct me if I am reading this wrong). One table shows that

with an ATEC of 44 and 5 months on the diet, there was a final score

of 7. This is based on a few respondents with the child's age being

about 3 years old (page 41). Another busy graph (page 43), shows that

the ATEC for those with lower ATEC scores initially, dropped just as

much as those for other initial scores - such as in the 50s, 60s,

70s, and higher (from 87 cases).

To what extent you see improvement may depend on how much your

child's symptoms are based on food intolerances to casein and gluten

and perhaps soy, or leaky gut, or other gut problems, and not on his

initial ATEC score.

Hope this helps.

.

[Guest guest]

Kirstin,

I am looking at the data compiled for the gfcfdiet board (by n,

I believe) right now from their new publication on Dietary

Intervention which would make a lovely Christmas gift for someone.

From what I can tell, you have just as much chance of seeing

improvement from the diet as a person with a much higher ATEC score

(someone correct me if I am reading this wrong). One table shows that

with an ATEC of 44 and 5 months on the diet, there was a final score

of 7. This is based on a few respondents with the child's age being

about 3 years old (page 41). Another busy graph (page 43), shows that

the ATEC for those with lower ATEC scores initially, dropped just as

much as those for other initial scores - such as in the 50s, 60s,

70s, and higher (from 87 cases).

To what extent you see improvement may depend on how much your

child's symptoms are based on food intolerances to casein and gluten

and perhaps soy, or leaky gut, or other gut problems, and not on his

initial ATEC score.

Hope this helps.

.

[Guest guest]

I have not heard that more severly affected children benefit more. My son is

now very high functioning and not even on the spectrum anymore. If the diet had

not been implemented I do not know how severe his problems would have been. I

do not think that a more severly child would benefit more or less. The problem

is that the foods are not being broken down properly and acting as an opiod drug

would. The symptoms vary from child to child, and correction of the problem is

just as necessary in each.

do more severely affected children benefit more from the

diet?

Does anyone know if it is the more severely affected children that benefit most

from the diet? My son's ATEC was only 43, which isn't too terribly bad.

" Overwhelmed " would be a good word for me right now....I have no idea which

direction to go in with all of this. (On top of everything else going on in my

life right now!)

Love,

Kirstin <><

Wife to Bobby (7 years)

Momma to Grant (4.5), Caleb (3), Libby (1.25), and " Lil' Bit " (due 4/26/02)

I sell books kids love!!!

I'm an Usborne Books at Home Independent Consultant!

http://usbornekirstin.tripod.com/