Re: Diet question - tracking treatments

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I found that doing one thing at a time (in addition to OT ST etc.) is great for

seeing what

the affects actually are. Here is a link to a chart I found helpful for

tracking.

http://www.autismwebsite.com/ARI/treatment/brendakerrletter.htm

With tracking Im seeing patterns that I wouldn't have realized. I made sure I

had a

baseline score for each category without treatment and then I added the

treatment. Next

will be a few of the diet suggestions people from the group have given me.

Thanks

Angie

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> > Hi Theresa,

> >

> > The minerals we take are " NOW " brand Colloidal Minerals, in raspberry

> > flavor. They're very good mixed with ginger ale, and they really knock

> > out a cold when you feel one coming on.

> >

> > We actually do take less than the recommended amounts of all the

> > supplements, because we do get a lot of what we need through eating

> > healthy, fresh, whole foods. Since neither his father nor I are

> > dieticians, we take the supplements on occasion to make up for what we

> > don't know we might be missing. And if we are getting everything we

> > need through our diet, a little extra once in a while can't hurt.

> >

> > As with anything else, obviously diet and supplements need to be

> > implemented with common sense.

> >

> > Our child hasn't needed his inhaler unless he was sick since he

> > significantly decreased his consumption of dairy products. Since he

> > went mostly vegan about a year ago (his biological mother forces him

> > to drink milk and makes him sob and ask for soy- she refuses to buy

> > him soy), his balance and attention have become much better. He's

> > still a far cry from " normal " but he has done much better for himself.

> > He falls down significantly less now than he used to- he'd just be

> > standing there and fall over. He fell yesterday for the first time in

> > nearly a year- and granted, we'd just seen The Polar Express in 3-D at

> > the I-MAX and he said it made him dizzy. He also is still forced to

> > eat dairy products at his mother's house, so maybe that accounts for

> > it. It's so hard to tell what's just normal catching up with aging, or

> > whether what we're doing is actually working, but it sure seems like

> > since he went vegetarian a lot more things are " clicking " with him.

> > It's certainly enough to convince me.

> >

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