Fwd: Re: Celiac and Developmental Delays/social anxiety/shyness

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Someone on this list, I believe, recently asked about success stories

in ASD with gluten free diet. I'm forwarding something that I wrote

on a celiac site when a similar question was asked. This is about a

little boy that I actually know personally. He's not some kid that I

read about on the web. My son was in preschool with him.

His Mom was very strict with his diet and because his behaviors were

so severe she was able to pinpoint what foods he had problems with.

She also had an unbelieveable amount of support. (His aunt went to

preschool with him to monitor his diet.)

You can see from the message below that he also had oppositional

defiant disorder and is considered almost recovered today. Most

people don't believe his Mom when she says he has autism. This is

also a strictly celiac/allergy avoidance success story as this family

never saw a DAN! physician or did any chelation.

Vicki

--- " fridgudare2003 " <toxicangels2@...> wrote:

I have a friend whose child was diagnosed with ODD/ASD, who was quite

severe as a young child. His only method of communicating was

screaming. His Mom was literally so scared of this toddler (he did

pin her to the floor and give her a black eye on at least one

occasion) that she hid the knives before going to bed at night.

Luckily a chiropractor gave her a copy of the Parents magazine with

Karyn Seroussi's article about the GFCF diet for ASD. She started

taking gluten out of his diet and almost immediately started seeing

improvement. Three weeks into the diet they saw a pediatric Gastro

who " reluctantly " agreed to test him for celiac. Even 3 weeks into

the diet, he still had high numbers.

Fast forward 2 years and this child was the star pupil in his

preschool class. He's now in a regular 2nd grade classroom and on

the A-B honor roll. The only residual symptoms that I see of the ASD

is some ritualistic behaviors. Everything else is gone!

Vicki