Re: Gluten-Free Diet/hyperactivity

[Guest guest]

Take a look at these two links for lots of useful info:

http://www.danasview.net/parent3.htm#diet

When you go to the first link, scroll all the way down and click onto the

one that talks about " phenols " . Your son may be having a reaction to foods

that are high in phenols (especially if he eats a lot of fruits that are

high in phenols).

www.gfcfdiet.com <http://www.gfcfdiet.com/>

As for the gluten and casein free diet in general - the (very very basic and

oversimplified) gist is that the proteins in these foods have an opiate

effect on some people, causing cognitive and other disturbances. It takes

only about 3 days to get casein out of your system; but with gluten it may

take as long as several months. And gluten is in so many things.even

toothpastes and shampoos and whatnot.

There is also a group devote to the GFCF diet. They are filled w/good

info (and a high volume list). You may want to join and read the archives a

bit.

Also - in general the sites I gave you links for focus on autistic kids but

many many kids w/o that diagnosis have undiagnosed food allergies or

intolerances or benefit from being GFCF.so don't let that scare you away if

your child is not ASD.

Good luck!

benjolarac@... wrote:

Can someone pls advise me on what the Gluten-free Diet is for? and how does

it help? My son, Nehemiah, is 4+ diagnosed with apraxia by SLP last year,

receiving speech therapy 2x a wk. Now on Pro Efa for one wk and no changes

so far.

He is very hyper and very distracted. One thing is for sure, I do not

believe in sweet tooth and my kids eat candy twice or once a wk. Their

juices are always dilluted with water and they snack on fruits 90% of the

time. My husband and I believe sugar can't be the issue here. I have been

reading most of the emails and have read about diets and supplements that

can help. Who is using what for their hyper kids? Pls share thank you...

[Guest guest]

Hi,

My name is Karey; your son sounds like mine. He is highly distractible, and has

sensory issues too, sees a SLP once a week.

I bought the book, " The ADD Nutrition Solution " , which is very difficult to

follow but is basically like the Feingold diet plus supplements. It has been

helpful thus far. Sometimes you have to look at not only the sugar, but the

additional foods that counteract with it. That is, make sure your son is

getting a lot of protein, low starch and low fruits/juices. Also look at the

dyes (yellow and red are pretty bad, made from coal tar) and additives and

preservatives. I have removed milk and gluten from my son's diet, plus nitrates

and sulphates, plus dyes and processed foods. It has been a starting point for

us and I swear on some days it has been great. Others, I think I am not sure.

You might want to get an allergy test blood test) too to see if there are some

allergies with the way your child processes the foods. (vs. the skin test,

which does not really evaluate that.) Feel free to email me to discuss

anything.

Karey in Minnesota

benjolarac@... wrote:

Can someone pls advise me on what the Gluten-free Diet is for? and how does

it help? My son, Nehemiah, is 4+ diagnosed with apraxia by SLP last year,

receiving speech therapy 2x a wk. Now on Pro Efa for one wk and no changes so

far.

He is very hyper and very distracted. One thing is for sure, I do not believe

in sweet tooth and my kids eat candy twice or once a wk. Their juices are

always dilluted with water and they snack on fruits 90% of the time. My husband

and I believe sugar can't be the issue here. I have been reading most of the

emails and have read about diets and supplements that can help. Who is using

what for their hyper kids? Pls share thank you...

[Guest guest]

Hi

You may also want to have your son evaluated by an occupational therapist. My

son is

active as well and can lose focus with his SLP. He's going to start OT so I can

let you know

how that goes.

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> Can someone pls advise me on what the Gluten-free Diet is for? and how does

it help?

My son, Nehemiah, is 4+ diagnosed with apraxia by SLP last year, receiving

speech therapy

2x a wk. Now on Pro Efa for one wk and no changes so far.

>

> He is very hyper and very distracted. One thing is for sure, I do not believe

in sweet

tooth and my kids eat candy twice or once a wk. Their juices are always

dilluted with

water and they snack on fruits 90% of the time. My husband and I believe sugar

can't be

the issue here. I have been reading most of the emails and have read about

diets and

supplements that can help. Who is using what for their hyper kids? Pls share

thank you...

[Guest guest]

A lot of people use the gluten free diet to treat apraxia and autism. The

working theory is that some kids can't break down gluten protiens and the build

up in the blood. Once they reach a certain level, they have an optiate effect

on the children. Hence they want more and more gluten to get the fix.

Of course a lot of children with autism also have celiac disease, where they

cannot process gluten at all and eating anything with gluten causes stomach

pains, diarreah and can be very serious. For the children who don't have

celiac, going GF can make them more alert, make it easier to concentrate, etc.

Parents have been telling doctors for a while now that a GF diet helps bring

autistic kids back. Now clinical trials are going on to get the data to back it

up.

toni

[Guest guest]

Most fruit has a lot of sugar in it, so if candida infection is a

problem, fruit needs to be limited along with other sugar in the diet.

The gluten-free casein-free diet is used by many parents of children

with autism spectrum disorders. Actually my daughter with apraxia

responded more positively to the gfcf diet than my son with ASD. Her

sensory issues disappeared pretty quickly on the diet.

>

> Can someone pls advise me on what the Gluten-free Diet is for? and

how does it help? My son, Nehemiah, is 4+ diagnosed with apraxia by

SLP last year, receiving speech therapy 2x a wk. Now on Pro Efa for

one wk and no changes so far.

>

> He is very hyper and very distracted. One thing is for sure, I do

not believe in sweet tooth and my kids eat candy twice or once a wk.

Their juices are always dilluted with water and they snack on fruits

90% of the time. My husband and I believe sugar can't be the issue

here. I have been reading most of the emails and have read about

diets and supplements that can help. Who is using what for their

hyper kids? Pls share thank you...