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erkolos Wrote:

I haven't really read the news earlier, but it seems like alot of stuff show strong scepticism towards chelation and other alternative treatments. By the look of those presented at the News forum at AFF I have often got the impression that most people believe in chelation.

What about autism diets? Are they quackery too?

Seems like alot of autistics do infact have food intolerances, but does that mean that they get more "autistic" if not having a diet?
Apparently some people call aggressive behavior by autistics "autistic behavior". I think that's an inappropriate way of looking at it. As suggested by the previous news article I posted some people think that constipation caused by food intolerances can infact cause frustrations in autistic children, not that they get any "more" autistic.

I think that chelation's only really believed by a small group of people - the medical community in general have pretty much shown that chelation doesn't work.

As far as the diets go, I think that there is something to certain diets relieving physical symptoms, and many autistic children respond better to people without pain and discomfort symptoms.

I was sort of wondering what all of your ideas were on the gfcf diet. I started eliminating foods for my son long before diagnosis of autism and long before I even discovered the info on the net about gfcf. He has food intolerances regardless of what the allergist says. My son is currently on a diet that eliminates milk, soy, artificial color, msg, hydrogenated oil, sodium nitrate(cured meats), and gluten. I eliminate all of these for my whole family except the gluten. I KNOW it works for him. It doesn't make him less autistic, but it does make him nicer and easier to live with. As for me, if I cheat and have milk products I am tired, depressed, have trouble finding words and have almost bi polar mood swings.

I shop at Wal-mart for the most part. We eat freshly prepared foods, not prepackaged garbage. Instead of bread we have rice or homemade corn bread or on the rare occasion some gluten free bread from the health food store(it is really expensive). For milk we use Vance's Dari-free(potato based) milk sub available on-line in powder form. It is quite good and they have chocolate which is better than the real deal IMO. I have recently found rice yogurt at the health food store that is the bomb. For the most part we eat a lot of fruits, vegetables, rice and meats and just skip the specialty foods altogether.

Long before I ever heard of Asperger's, I did read that the earlier a baby was introduced to any kind of foreign protein during weaning was more likely to cause an allergic reaction later on in childhood. Anything containing gluten or eggs in particular were mentioned.

I steered clear of any of these until the children had reached the appropriate age to tolerate any of them. I also only fed them freshly made food, no packet or tinned foods until they were around 1 year old.

They don't have any food intolerances, but that may be just pure good luck

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