Seeking info regarding foods that help autistic children (vegetables, supplement, doctors)
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My wife and I are raising a five year old autistic daughter. Mentally, she has the motor-skills of a one year old child. She is still non-verbal and wears diapers. She has frequent meltdowns and often has sleep issues due to trapped gas. We've been told that many autistic kids become more manageable (and their symptoms become reduced, if not reversed) AFTER a new diet is introduced.
Can anybody who is knowledgeable about autistic children suggest some foods options that might make a difference regarding her behavior/development?
My wife and I are raising a five year old autistic daughter. Mentally, she has the motor-skills of a one year old child. She is still non-verbal and wears diapers. She has frequent meltdowns and often has sleep issues due to trapped gas. We've been told that many autistic kids become more manageable (and their symptoms become reduced, if not reversed) AFTER a new diet is introduced.
Can anybody who is knowledgeable about autistic children suggest some foods options that might make a difference regarding her behavior/development?
Thank you in advance!
All help is appreciated!
Sincerely,
Steve
A Gluten and Caesin (wheat and dairy) free diet would be a good start. If you do further research that has been shown to exert positive benefits for a percentage on the autism spectrum. For an overall diet I would go with a modified paleo version that includes: fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and some startch items (potato, rice, quinoa, etc.) A supplemental vitamin like Super Nu-Thera is good for people on the GFCF diet.
I have a autistic little girl age 4 and she has a thing where she will only eat things that was colour red or dark in colour and always had to have tea for 4 no later anyone else have this problem
My own mother was autistic. I and my brother and most of his children have Asperger's and so did my son.
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And I'm sure you know this, UT do not depend to see overhyped improvements based on diet ALONE.
I think this is true but I also think diet and therapeutic nutrients can help a fair bit.
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... a lot of delayed children I know of do not like sweets.
My son seemed to prefer nutrient free meals. Not so much sweets though.
I would introduce things like raw cashews which are said to be a very good source of brain nutrients (they even help with depression which I can attest to). Make sure your daughter is getting all the micro-nutrients needed for good brain and body health. Sugar and refined carbs do not help and probably result in poor nutrient absorption (by inflaming the intestinal linings?)
A Gluten and Caesin (wheat and dairy) free diet would be a good start. If you do further research that has been shown to exert positive benefits for a percentage on the autism spectrum. For an overall diet I would go with a modified paleo version that includes: fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and some startch items (potato, rice, quinoa, etc.) A supplemental vitamin like Super Nu-Thera is good for people on the GFCF diet.
My son has what the doctors feel is closest to Aspergers, we found the biggest help was removing food that had some of the more "affecting" Dyes. These include Red #40 mainly, we also keep an eye out on Yellow 6. When we dropped all food that had Red #40 though there was a big difference. It is in tons of stuff including White Icing... Thankfully Kraft finally removed it from Mac & Cheese.
The biggest improvement in his behavior though by far wasn't food, it was removing what we call "screen time". 90% of his violent/emotional rages went away when we put the XBOX/Wii into storage and limited his Movie watching to once or twice a month. He gets no TV time. This was difficult for the entire family, myself included as I have 5 computers and would love to play on them with him, but when we removed "screen time" he went from 5 suspensions and a forced transfer from his school to honor roll and being put into normal classes now.
We found this out because I was speaking to a police officer who said he had noticed a huge increase in violent calls about children and 90% of them included a child that spent a great amount of time in front of a "screen". We couldn't believe the difference it made for our son..
The crazy part was, 30 minutes on a console would give us 48 to 72 hours of an over stimulated child. As an example, 2 years ago we let him play 1 hr of XBox 360 for his 8th birthday (on saturday) and Monday he was suspended for 2 days from school for being out of control. The only suspension he received that year. This was when we put them in storage.
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