re to laura's - Re: I am a newbie,..and I need help.

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Our son had bowel issues as well. The people that the diet helps

often see improvements in every category - physically with better

bowel movements, emotionally with less severe temper tantrums,

sensory wise which helps with OT stuff, better coordination which

helps with PT stuff, and language wise (in our case, imaginary play

began after the start of the diet and he began to use three word

sentences with horrible pronoun usage of course " Pick you up? " ).

I want to steer you in the right direction with giving you some

sites to look at, but I need to know if you have looked up this diet

on your own. If not, then I can include a few very basic sites with

more detailed sites as well.

I belong to the Silly Yaks group which has a few people doing gluten

free and casen free with their autistic kids (most people in this

group have celiac disease so are only gluten free). I just read a

post from a mom who did the diet on her 7 year old and got him poop

trained after starting it.

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> Thanks for the reply, we will try anything at this point...

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> A question, what does the gluten/casein free diet to for the

body? My

> son will hold his bowels for days, so much in fact when the urge

to poop

> comes, he will do this funny body scruntch where his feet are on

the

> ground, his hips are bent (making his butt poke out) sometimes his

legs

> are crossed, his trunk is contorted into a twist, and you can see

on his

> face him trying to keep it in.

>

> This got to the point where it was so bad that the school nurse

called

> me and said she was afraid his bowel was inpacted. I took him to

the Dr

> and this was the case, the rest of the story was awful. At that

point

> he was put on a daily stool softner.

>

> Now, with that, he will only do as little as he can get away

with. So,

> sometimes he goes 6 times a day, but it is only a small amount.

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> Next issue, sitting on the potty. He will pee on the potty quite

well,

> but sitting on it causes a fit and we all know how we hate those.

I

> have tried so much. We had him go and pick out his OWN chair (i

had had

> the little one for many years, back when I babysat and assisted in

other

> peoples children potty training). We tried treats, we tried to

take his

> favorite game from him and only allowing him to play it while

sitting on

> the potty. We have tried hundreds of phrases and explainations as

to

> why he needs to poop on the potty. I bet that he can even recite

them

> to you.