Desparate Help Need-Son is getting Suisidal

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Kari,

I am FAR from an expert as I have just started to look at diet issues for my two

children about 2 months ago. However as I am a prefessional researcher by trade

I have thrown myself into this endevor. My son is ADHD and 7 years old and due

to bi-polar running in our family I have not (and will not) put him on

medication for fear on inducing early on-set bi-polar. My daughter is 4.5 and

thus far NT.

My suggestion is that she starts with enzymes. They can help heal the gut and

it is possible that as the gut heals that she can wean her son off the gluten

rich diet. If her children are like mine, if she goes cold turkey her child may

decide to starve instead of eat the other food provided.

Now I am saying this because this is my plan. My 4 year old ONLYeats pepridge

farm goldfish and drinks milk NOTHING else. When the school holidays begin (she

is in Pre-K) I am goin to start her on the Houston AFP Peptizyde. My son eats

marginally better, but also very limited diet. Due to yeast issues and

artificial falvor/colors in his poor diet I pan to start him on Houston No

Fenol.

Suggest that she read Defelice's Web site

http://www.enzymestuff.com/

and buy her book. They are excellent resources about diet/gut/enzyme reactions.

Also here is the link to the Houston Web Site

http://216.114.78.114/webcenter/sites/HNI/Home.asp?SID=3428 & N=Home

The main issue is that diet while an important fix is not a quick fix and it is

going to take time to undo all the damage that her son's (and my kids) poor diet

has done to them!

Also while in no way an expert from how you describe this boy and his symptoms

Aspergers jumps to my mind as a dx.

Martha

Kari Trautman <karitrautman@...> wrote:

My neighbor's 8 year old son has been " off " for some time now. He is proving to

be basically brilliant (although he is struggling in school for other reasons),

has problems making eye contact; is highly volatile, depressed, socially doesn't

click with his peers as he would rather watch a show about the Rise and Fall of

Sudam Hussein then pokey man. The food red flags have been there for some time.

At the age of 2, he would only eat bread and milk, an occasional fruit or

vegetable. But as the " experts " say because he was progressing physically all

was fine-just be sure to give a Flintstone vitamin.

This year things really started getting more unbearable, mostly stemming from

the social pressures at a public school for a child with this make up. Going to

see a psychiatrist, they acknowledged he was suffering from depression and put

his on paxil. Temporary fix, but then more problems started to seriously arise.

Now recently he went to another doctor that confirmed he actually had bi-polar

disorder, and they tell them the paxil triggered the condition. (Mental

problems do run in both sides of the family history.) So to fix that problem 3

weeks ago they put him on lithium.

Bringing me now to my desperate plea, his mom confided in me that he is

suicidal, They literally had to carry him to get him into school yesterday. The

kicker to all of this is that I am attempteing to express to her what I have

learned regarding this role of food, she informs me that now her sons diet is

ONLY bread. Sprinkled in occationally with a bowl of sugary cereal; fruit roll

ups; juice.

If there ever was a case of how this child's brain is literally going crazy due

to some food issue, he would be classic. Something has taken over, assuming it

is a gluten allergy; yeast infection; pedtide issue; leaky gut, or ALL! At this

point although she embraces what I am telling her, she is so overwhelmed and

confused she doesn't know what to do. We have 2 weeks off with the school break

and I am telling her she has to do WHATEVER it takes to pull the carbs from him.

Assuming it must be like pulling an addict. She is thinking that trying to get

her son to change his diet is not possible. But I know some of you out there

know what she is going through, understanding that it seems virtually

impossible. Please if someone wouldn't mind talking with her personally to

share email me privately at karitrautman@....

She is going to see an expert in the field of child psychiatry tomorrow, someone

at Stanford University. I am just praying that this " expert " must surely be

aware of this biological connection and can shed light on this issue. Not to

say that it will fix everything, but the one thing I have learned here is that

it can play often a pivotal role to it all, and without fixing this element

successful treatment is virtually doomed.

Thanks for your time.

Kari