Re: Are you following a 'special' diet for your child?

March 28, 2010

yes GAPS diet - it has been brilliant for us - our 5 yr old daughter eats like a

horse now

From: ttaniaa0000@...

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:22:34 +0000

Subject: [ ] Are you following a 'special' diet for your

child?

Hi all,

I was wondering what diets people have their kids on, and have you seen progress

since? I'm just now beginning to look more into this side of things. At the

moment, I've just got my boy on a mostly organic, preservative and additive free

diet.

I'm awaiting test results from his biomed doc, but thought it would be a good

idea to begin familiarising myself with some of the different diets that people

feel work for their kids.

I have been reading about the failsafe and GAPS diets, but they seem to somewhat

contradict one another.

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March 28, 2010

yes, our apraxic daughter is GFCF primarily but also corn free and soy free-

plus avoidance of some other foods we've noticed skin reactions to. We have seen

great improvements --behaviorally especially with the diet--but also speech and

attention, focus, fine and gross motor. Gluten has particular affinity for brain

tissue-- (there's lots of research on thsi and all Celiacs will sooner or later

develop neurological problems--the later identified the greater the

neurological/endocrine/autoimmune issues) So the brain cells can literally be

attacked by the brain itself once the gluten is attached to them and they are

marked as the enemy.--same for casein intolerance. You will usually find other

family members with " milk/wheat/eggs etc. allergy " as infants--but they were

told they outgrew it--since this is what doctors were lead to believe when the

symptoms they were used to seeing were gone---but they never looked further to

see how that child, young

adult is developing and what other autoimmune/ neurological/ endocrine issues

are appearing. Back then they just never made the connection.

So look for family members with autoimmune disorders and neurological

disorders--lake aunt who never married because of her arthritis or her

psoriasis--and hes always seemed kind of depressed--particularly starting around

puberty; or uncle Bill who also had kind of a strange life and everyone blamed

it on post traumatic stress disorder--only he was never in battle---and later

they discovered it was bipolar or schizophrenia etc. Yes, we have family

members with similar profiles--so there's a definite genetic predisposition--but

genes for such things are triggered by environmental exposures--this is why some

have the same genes and have no chronic degenerative disorders or developmental

problems of any kind.

So our daughter is affected neurologicalyl by the gliadin and casein

peptides--we know this becuase she regressed back to where she had been prior to

the diet--both therapists were begging me to put her back after a month

off--just to do some allergy testing--which BTW--revealed --NOTHING__She's not

allergic---in spite of the eczemas and scalp psoriasis and of course apraxia

which prior to biomed was SEVERE. The allergist scratched his head, was very

surprised given her clinical profile---but concluded the allergy tests are not

there- Also her IGg was lower than normal--indicative of an under reactive

immune response--which would explain her autoimmune issues as well as her

delayed or different responses to various invaders--i.e. she almost never gets a

fever --when others around her are sick in bed for a week--she just has a very

mild version and is back to normal shortly---but I later learned this is NOT

what it appears--fever has a purpose and an

under-responsive immune system can actually mean she will be hit much harder at

a later point since her body cannot fight off various pathogens--and we've seen

that too.

Food interlace is NOT food allergy--food allergy is when you are rushed to the

hospital and need an epinephrine shot or you may not survive--in other

words--IMMEDIATE reactions. Food intolerances are delayed immune response due

to particles of those foods--proteins--getting into the blood stream in larger

particles than normal. There are the most likely foods/proteins---but once a

person lacks the enzymes to digest certain proteins for whatever reason--and it

can be from birth and even before--or it can become apparent later--after

somethign weakens the gut lining--like a virus/vaccine induced or normally

acquired illness, bacterial infection or parasites--Yes we've had all

these--once the gut lining is permeable--it is a downward spiral of poor health

unless a good diet/supplements approach is taken--probiotics are a MUST--but may

need various or specific kinds.. This creates a vicious cycle of

malabsorptions and opportunistic infections in

genetically predisposed individuals--but don't let the word " genetic " make you

think it is rare. My nutritionist estimates that roughly 30-40% of the world's

population should NOT be eating gluten--and sooner or later will develop the

intolerance--once their enzyme production and intestinal permeability are

interfered with.

For those looking to understand more about gluten and other intolernces--since

it is rare that people are intolerant to just one thing---I recommend The Gluten

Effect

http://thegluteneffect.com/

--for a good description and analysis of what this protein and others-- can

do--and again, not from day one necessarily--although the failure to thrive at

beginning of life--or shortly after, frequent spit ups, collics etc are often an

indicator of possible intolernaces to foods the mother is consuming--usually

gluten/casein. In some individuals the intolerance is not diagnosed until

middle age, or later--the author's mother was diagnosed in her 50's when the

neurological problems were finally piling up--but her granddaughter was

obviously intolerant as an infant when she had projectile vomiting and failure

to thrive for the first year becuase the mother was consuming gluten products

and she was gettign them through the milk--yes, they are not completely broken

down and the baby --if intolerant--lacking enzymes to digest gluten or

others--will react--in various ways--some only neurologically, others in

multiple ways and those are the lucky ones becuase

it is identified sooner. --when they come down with diabetes, high blood

pressure and high cholesterol followed shortly by hypothyroidism and other

autoimmune disorders--including but not limited to Lupus, asthma, arthritis and

even cancer and as you get closer to the other end of life's spectrum early

onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson.

Yes, they all have metabolic underpinnings--there is a lot of neuroscience

research and microbiology research that addresses this mechanism of

malabsorptions due to faulty enzyme production--caused most often by gentic

differences that make the person more susceptible to varios environmental toxins

that then affect subtle and soemtimes not so subtle enzyme production

mechanisms. We are walking electro-chemical laboratories and there are hundreds

of toxins found in newborn cord blood--many of which are known to be

carcinogenic and neurotoxic. Watch video here from Environmental Working

Group-and sign petition if this seems importnat to you.

http://www.ewg.org/kid-safe-chemicals-act-blog/sign-the-petion-to-protect-kids/

Also know that food intolerances are rarely just to one or two foods--they tend

to build as I've explained and are NOT necessarily manifested in obvious

digestive symptoms--my daughter did not have any nor did I. Yes,I too am

intolerant to Gluten though in my case the genes were activated later in life

after exposure to various toxins--amalgam fillings included. So you can be

intolerant to foods even when digestive problems are apparent at all in the

majority of these individuals, meaning doctor will not test for Celiac--it

really isn't Celiac--it's been called silent Celiac--since the symptoms are so

diverse d--depending on genetic susceptibility --and very importnat --toxic

body burden--and there's no shortage of that unfortunately.

I know, diets don't sound like fun---but our little girl is a perfect little

monster when she eats gluten/casein and corn gives her rashes in a day or so as

does pineapple and oranges etc--a few others which we're told are secondary

intolernaces which may go away.

It takes on average 10-13 years to diagnose a gluten intolerant individual and

the symptoms are often just neurological--depression and ADHD included as well

as speech problems, behavioral issues, etc etc.

AND yes, most of our apraxic and otherwise neurologically damaged kids do have

metabolic problems and thsi is why various diets/supplements help normalize the

various systems. For us the MB12 was fantastic, as were the fatty acids after E

and carnitine were added. the tests were also not always indicative of the

problem and all such lab tests should be used as data points, interpreted as a

cluster based on clinical profile and family history of

autoimmune/neurological/metabolic disorders---throughout the lifetime of those

individuals.

Anyway, I hope this helps--because biomed offers a lot of possibilities that

therapy alone cannot even begin to address--therapy is slow and even pointless

when the brain cannot process things and is affected by toxins and nutrients or

lack thereof. Our brains are not in a vacuum--the gut /brain connection cannot

be denied anymore--but supplements and diets don't make the Pharmaceutical

Industry very happy since they can't really be patented--and every child is

different to different protocols may apply--none of that --one drug--cure all.

All the best,

Elena

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