Have you seen how much gluten free foods are out there? Have any of you tried

HAHAHA. That's the funny thing. Icecream is fine. A chocolate bar is fine. It's the icing on cupcakes from the store that are like confectionary sugar.

I've heard that with the dairy products but I read somewhere that the children need the vitamin D for something to help switch them on, if you know what I mean. I was really curious because my friend's kids when they were younger were allergic to just about everything. Flour and wheat products as well as eggs were really bad for them. I don't know what they ate. LOL I just wondered if it made a difference in autistic children.

So many parents of Auistic children who have gone on the gluten free diet have said it actually pulled their child out of Autism, but then so many have also said they saw no change.

But if you havn't tried it, you will never know.

Are you thinking of trying it on your son? Takes a lot of work & alot of reading labels & can also be hard on the child, more so if he/she has picky food choices. Like mine does. LOL!

I was mostly trying to see what the effect was. I took my son off of Juice for awhile. I usually only give them milk or juice cut with water. He got sick but I think cutting down on the juice and sugar, calmed him a little. I just wondered what else he eats really has a lot of sugar. If he eats cookies you can't tell he ate anything sweet. If he eats certain icing, not all icing, he gets a little whacky. I can't really tell what is causing him to be hyper. I also read a little about selenium but I don't want to mess with that yet because you have to be able to get everything out of his system or it goes back into his body. It being the mercury which a lot of autistic kids have in their systems.

I usually try to give him the same stuff until I know how something new affects him. The only problem is sometimes I wonder if it is the combination of the foods. LOL That's an interesting concept about your daughter's sinuses. Please let me know how that works out.

Sounds like she has diabetes. I haven't seen a link to any one ingredient that effects my son. He will have reactions to some food but not to others with some of the same ingredients. It's really odd.

I don't know about that unless she was hiding it or didn't know she had it. I get sleepy when my blood sugar is low.

Diabetes effects everyone differently. If you have diabetes and eat too much sweets or carbs, you go out. Just about everyone we are related to has it. My husband has it, his father, my dad, my aunt, and my grandmother had it.

No one in my immediate family has it so I have never worried about it but I know a bit about blood sugar and the ability of certain foods to raise it and I don't eat enough sugar!

I am glad you shared that with me. I am trying to get my child into the extra therapies. I don't know if the insurance will do it yet. It's so ridiculous what you pay in insurance, just to be told you don't have coverage for anything. I'm not sure I would put my son on the diet yet. Like you, it sounds expensive.

I think therapy is the best way to go.

My son is not allergic. I had heard that the gluten free diet showed improvement over a gluten diet with autistic children. I wanted to know if anyone had tried it and if it did in fact work. Autism is an odd disease. Sometimes diet does effect an autistic child differently than a non autistic child. I do not know of any autistic children on a gluten free diet. I have a friend whose NON Autistic sons are on a gluten free diet because they are allergic. I was looking at behavorial aspects.