Sensory problems

[Guest guest]

My daughter started full day preschool and she hates it. She can't

stand the hour long Quiet Time where they have to lay quietly in

their uniforms with their shoes on. She sings constantly throughout

the day and can't actually stop for an hour, and she hasn't had a

nap since she was 2. She is complaining a lot about how her clothes

feel, the tags/seams/etc., her hair is bothering her tremendously,

everything just feels awful, and everything has to be lined up or

put away a certain way, etc. She has never had this severe of

sensory problems that I know of, since she was verbal anyway. She

also has hit kids twice at the playground which she's never done

before (in one case I had to peel her off someone she was

assaulting) and is obsessed with the fact that she is the only girl

with yellow hair and pink skin and checks her skin 10x a day to see

if it's getting darker yet (the other kids are all Hispanic).

It could be the increased amount of juice/fruit/sweetened soy milk

that she's getting at school, causing yeast, or the fact that she's

eating school eggs, vegetables and french fries - she eats HFS eggs

and french fries with no problem but god knows what they put in them

there. (They are supposed to abide by her doctor's note stating low

sugar, no added hormones,etc. but of course, they are not.) Her

dose of Peptizyde AFP is cut in half because we are running out of

chewables, but she is fairly GFCF.

I am taking her out at quiet time starting Monday, so she isn't in

an intolerable situation, but I didn't know about it the first week

and it was very traumatic. But for my son, any of those sensory/OCD

behaviors would pretty much just be yeast. She's a girl though, a

complex one at that, so ... at what point do you introduce the

possibility of actual trauma or psychology in some of these

symptoms, as opposed to something she ate or only taking half her

enzymes, that sort of thing?

Also, this will probably sound ridiculous but I haven't dealt with

anything but biomedically-induced autism thus far as a parent, so:

if you can't just remove a food or add a supplement with these types

of sensory/behavior problems, what do you do?? I would put her in

another preschool in one second, but it's a large city and there is

no spot anywhere that wasn't filled 6 months ago. I couldn't even

get her on a waiting list at this point.

Thanks,

Amy

[Guest guest]

Does you daughter see an OT for sensory intergration therapy? If so, what

recommendations would she or he have, and if not, maybe a consult with one would

be helpful. I am a special ed teacher who also has two children with some degree

of sensory issues. They may requiring her to do things that she is not " wired "

to do. Can she take her shoes off during rest time, can she listen to

headphones during this time. Is there any activities she can do prior to quiet

time that would gear her up for this.

Do you do magnesium baths (epsom salts) that is something that has helped

trememdously with the OCD/SI issues. Could she do some type of sensory diet

while the others are resting. She may need the input where as others need the

" rest " time.

Just some thoughts. Let me know if you need any other specific recommendations.

I am glad to help. Also, cut the tags and we also do extra fragrance free fabric

softener with the uniform type clothes. That has helped. Also, and undershirt or

cami feels better too.

Take care,

in IL

noahsmom7898 <noahsmom7898@...> wrote:

My daughter started full day preschool and she hates it. She can't

stand the hour long Quiet Time where they have to lay quietly in

their uniforms with their shoes on. She sings constantly throughout

the day and can't actually stop for an hour, and she hasn't had a

nap since she was 2. She is complaining a lot about how her clothes

feel, the tags/seams/etc., her hair is bothering her tremendously,

everything just feels awful, and everything has to be lined up or

put away a certain way, etc. She has never had this severe of

sensory problems that I know of, since she was verbal anyway. She

also has hit kids twice at the playground which she's never done

before (in one case I had to peel her off someone she was

assaulting) and is obsessed with the fact that she is the only girl

with yellow hair and pink skin and checks her skin 10x a day to see

if it's getting darker yet (the other kids are all Hispanic).

It could be the increased amount of juice/fruit/sweetened soy milk

that she's getting at school, causing yeast, or the fact that she's

eating school eggs, vegetables and french fries - she eats HFS eggs

and french fries with no problem but god knows what they put in them

there. (They are supposed to abide by her doctor's note stating low

sugar, no added hormones,etc. but of course, they are not.) Her

dose of Peptizyde AFP is cut in half because we are running out of

chewables, but she is fairly GFCF.

I am taking her out at quiet time starting Monday, so she isn't in

an intolerable situation, but I didn't know about it the first week

and it was very traumatic. But for my son, any of those sensory/OCD

behaviors would pretty much just be yeast. She's a girl though, a

complex one at that, so ... at what point do you introduce the

possibility of actual trauma or psychology in some of these

symptoms, as opposed to something she ate or only taking half her

enzymes, that sort of thing?

Also, this will probably sound ridiculous but I haven't dealt with

anything but biomedically-induced autism thus far as a parent, so:

if you can't just remove a food or add a supplement with these types

of sensory/behavior problems, what do you do?? I would put her in

another preschool in one second, but it's a large city and there is

no spot anywhere that wasn't filled 6 months ago. I couldn't even

get her on a waiting list at this point.

Thanks,

Amy

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much. Those are great suggestions. She has an OT eval.

referral (but she has to be in school to be evaluated) and the

magnesium has really helped so far.

She's kind of in a Catch 22 because now she's doing so well that she

doesn't qualify for a special classroom, but she still can't handle

most of the components of a regular classroom. I am going to move

her to a therapeutic preschool if I can, or at least, a smaller

one.

The teacher was very interested in learning about and willing to do

the enzymes and dietary things but she wants nothing to do with

dealing with behaviors and sensory special needs. *sigh*

Amy

> Does you daughter see an OT for sensory intergration therapy? If

so, what recommendations would she or he have, and if not, maybe a

consult with one would be helpful. I am a special ed teacher who

also has two children with some degree of sensory issues. They may

requiring her to do things that she is not " wired " to do. Can she

take her shoes off during rest time, can she listen to headphones

during this time. Is there any activities she can do prior to quiet

time that would gear her up for this.

>

> Do you do magnesium baths (epsom salts) that is something that has

helped trememdously with the OCD/SI issues. Could she do some type

of sensory diet while the others are resting. She may need the input

where as others need the " rest " time.

>

> Just some thoughts. Let me know if you need any other specific

recommendations.

> I am glad to help. Also, cut the tags and we also do extra

fragrance free fabric softener with the uniform type clothes. That

has helped. Also, and undershirt or cami feels better too.

>

> Take care,

> in IL

>