gf/cf diets | Autism PDD

thank you all for your suggestions. where do you get enzymes at? would it be on that website?We got them through the healthfood store.. the owner was also a rep. for Kirkman supplements..I think we used those?? I would do 2 capsules mixed with some syrup and she would take it so nice~ this was usually 30 min. before eating a meal. They came in handy at restaurants and holidays, birthdays ect... Good luck:) Shelley

IF DIET IS TO OVERWHEALMING TRY ENZYMES in the mean time.

the instructions how to do it is very simple an enzyme capsule before every meal, check http://www.enzymestuff.com

you may still at the begining need to do the diet but should be for a very short period of time if you use the enzymes.

Many mothers have been succesful helping the kids with enzymes, including myself.

Andrea

andreacusa39137.3640393519We did this for a year for Sarah..she too ate only starchy foods and milk so I had her tested for the protiens from these to see if she could break them down..well she test very high in these protein and we owed it to Sarah to see if it would work...especially with all the great reviews from other parents(most trusted source to me) and implemented it for a year. We saw her more alert, starting to look at us more and better eye contact..Since we started so many therapies at once it is hard to state what made this happen..I do know she had high yeast (feeds on the starches she ate) & chronic constipation before diet and it was completely better! She could go 3+ days before she could have bm to having them everyday. Some parents note big changes: less behaviors and stimming to more language and awareness & eye contact. The best results are those that stick to it 100%.... any GFCF products are to be completely eliminated..thank goodness that most healthfood stores make it easier with shelves of GFCF foods-We got Mrs. Robins baking mix for chic nuggets, they had bread, cookies, crackers, rice milk, potato milk-soy has a minute of amt. of barley(wheat) so we didn't get it. They even have a rice cream for ice cream. She was easily switched to it. I made huge batches of chicken nuggets & Mcdonalds french fries and freeze them..they heat up perfect in microwave. Towards the end of one year we started her on enzymes to get any hidden GFCF and some parents gave enzymes to breakdown the GFCF protiens and never did the diet with good results.. She is no longer on it but I still consider it sometimes to see what results we would get a few years later. Good luck! Shelley

Yes, we have success. The tacanow site really offers great info on how to greadually introduce the diet. Here are some other informative sites about the gfcf diet:

Gluten-free/ Casien-free diet (GFCF) – leaky gut

http://members.aol.com/lisas156/gfpak.htm

http://www.tacanow.com/dietinfo.htm

http://www.autismndi.com/

http://www.gfcfdiet.com/

http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/book/bk8sect1.html

GF/CF Books:

Unraveling the Mysteries of Autism and PDD by Karen Seroussi

Special Diets for Special Kids I & II by Lisa Lewis (also a recipe book)

GF/CF Yahoo Group:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GFCFKids/?yguid=1365527 97

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GFCFrecipes/

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ANDI-ADI/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FOODALLERGYKITCHEN/?yguid=1365 52797

the best site I have read to learn about the diet and how to implement is:

www.tacanow.com

Yes, the diet has helped my child very much. Along with supps and MB12 shots, etc. I used to not be able to take her with me to the grocery store and now can.

Eye contact, sharing, playing, relating, playing with others have all improved.

my dd has a fixation on starchy foods ( pasta, bread, crackers, waffles and pancakes) she will also eat apples pears and corn but that is about it other than hotdogs and maybe once a month a 1/2 piece of bacon and 1/2 an egg. Would she do ok trying to switch her to a gf/cf diet? Has anyone had success of this? I just thought that since she only seems to crave gluten foods that maybe she had a sensitivity to them. Any one that could help me out it would be so appriecitated. I have read some web sites on it but it only confuses me more.

My son is only 15 months, so has not been formally diagnosed, but his symptoms are consistent with many autism characteristics (no eye contact, no babbling, tantrums, no nonverbal communication, food pickiness etc.). I went out on a limb and am trying the GF/CF diet. First we eliminated all the casein (I just thought it was easier to tackle than the gluten)...within 3 days, he made eye contact, smiled at me for the first time, brought me a toy...all things he had never done. Mostly he just sat and played alone, preferred to even be in another room. After 2 weeks off, he said dada when his dad walked in the door, excited and happy to see him. The next week he held up a toy and said "see this." He used to act as if he was deaf...I even have had his hearing tested 3 times, all passing. He would not even look up if you called his name. Now, I say are you hungry, and he runs to the kitchen. We have just started taking out the gluten, I have read if you have trouble with one you usually have trouble with both. I wanted to mention the cookbook that has a lot of info in it. Sums up about every article I have seen all in one place, plus it is written for kids who will only eat bread and yogurt. It is "The Kid-Friendly ADHD & Autism Cookbook" by Pamela J. Compart. It is more than a cookbook. If you are wondering if the diet would suite your child, I strongly recommend reading this. We are just starting at this and trying 1 recipe a day and only focussing on completely casein free all day, and gluten free breakfasts. The we just do our best the rest of the day. Next week we will try to tackle lunch, and so on. This is the approach mentioned on the tacnow website.

My son now eats a greater variety of food than ever before. He still has trouble with textures, whole meats rather than purees, and refuses greens in any form. But, today I made crackers for him from rice flour and home-made almond flour for a snack, and he ate them. The cookbook talks not just about taking out gluten and casien, but how to put the good stuff in. I sneak the protein into everything I make. This week we have high-protien waffles that I cut into sticks ( a shape he prefers), along with he ate part of an egg and 2 pieces of sausage cut long in to quarters. Prior to this, he would have carefully dropped the egg and sausage to the floor and only ate the waffle.

I hope this helps. I'm new to all of this and do not have the support of my doctor, so if anyone wants to buddy-up, I'm open.

Thanks,

Cassie