Re: Gluten Free-Casein Free Diet

[Guest guest]

I know many who swear by it and love the effects. It didn't work for

Tyler, so I guess his symptoms aren't gluten and casein based or at

least he isn't sensitive to it... YMMV!!!

~hugs~

RAbecca

> Has anybody tried this with their children or themselves?

[Guest guest]

Hi

My son does not follow this diet because he shows none of the signs

indicating that he has problems with gluten and casein. However, I know

personally several people (including adults) who do use the diet and have

seen results (better sleeping in some cases, reduction in stimming and

definitely an improvement in reducing constipation/diarrohea). Not everybody

sees all of these. I also know people who have not seen results.

You can find out about it in Luke 's first book " A user guide to the

GF/CF diet " , which is very readable. Published by Kingsley.

There are also internet groups devoted to it, I believe one is called

GFCFKids - with a corollary GFCFKidsUK.

There are urine tests which should be done beforehand. In the UK this is

done at the university of Sunderland, in the States I think there is a place

called something like Great Plains labs?

in England

[Guest guest]

Thank you both for your thoughts and wisdom. I was just wondering

about it. My son has lots of allergies so I thought that this would

maybe even decrease his allergic side effects because most of the

things that are gluten free and casein free are also free of a lot of

other things that he is allergic too. However, I am not sure if he

suffers reaction to gluten or casien themselves. How do they test

this? Is it just a simple allergy scratch test like the others that

he has had? Austin does a lot of self stimming so certainly anything

that will help is a blessing. Thanks!!

Jean

[Guest guest]

Thank you . This explains a lot. My son is not allergic to milk,

but cannot seem to tolerate it well. This may be why!

Thanks again!

Jean