Eliminating wheat from DS's diet and his behaviour has been....

[Chandra]

soooo challenging!

I don't know what's going on, he seems to have bouts of hyperactivity just before bed and after lunch. He has become very challenging, rude and misbehaved. The only thing that's new is that we are avoiding wheat, and glutten where we can.

Is this behaviour related to the elimination diet? No other things have changed lately apart from his diet diet.

Thanks for your posts.

I have ordered a bottle of Permatrol which was what the nutriologist adviced last time and that we stopped once we got into the restricted diet.

I'm still trying to make sense of what could we expect of a SIgA test ), basically if the results of the test indicate we have to remove glutten and dairy from his diet and we have already removed wheat and dairy, know he is not allergic to gluttenem and seen a diference after removing wheat and dairy... wouldn't it be as being told what we already now?( I recognise I have been a bit dense lately...I must be ready to hibernate so, any help to get me out of this mental loop would be highly appreciated )

And just after five days on it he is complaining that his tummy hurts (and it's very bloated) just after having permatrol.

His allergy to milk seemed to be subsiding but, I think I was wrong

Have ordered a new set of tests (to repeat those of last year0 to see whether things are improving or not.

But the question I have at the back of my mind is, if we had removed glutten and milk from the very beginning, would his other food allergies could have been prevented? Surely, I should not be wasting my time in "what ifs" but anyways...

I am just starting a wheat and dairy free diet with my two boys as have been told it may halp alleviate tics. ds1 who is 5 has several motor tics and ds2 who is three seems to be starting the repetitive cough and sniff tics and stretching his mouth all the time. i do not know if it will work but advice has suggested it may help allevaite them. that said it is day two on f the diet and dh and I are at each others throats trying to think of what to feed them. Have book the soya milk and wheat free bread ( they hated it!)and am struggling to replace the foods they expect to have - ds1 loved sandwiches and ds2 is a cheese monster so it is going to be hard to try. Not sure what to do about school at this stage so will probably end up trying to eliminate it at Christmas when I have them under my control to see if it helsp and then do it properly after that.

How do you do it all the time? Did you jeust introcude it immediately with your children or gradually?

HELP

BuMP

oats (flapjack/savoury biscuits)ricecakes, polenta pancakes. Terence Stamp do wheat free flour for home baking (not sure about bread flour though but you can make muffins)

soya/rice/oat milk (soya cheese is pants & often full of hydrogenated oil) rice dream cream, alpro soya desserts are nice (custard is gorgeous & alpro has added calcium)

will add later if I can think of any more HTH

Thx Iris66. The alpro custard has gone down very well but they dont like the "funny" milk. Free from pancakes did not go down well either. It is hard trying to replace their favourites so i think I need to just cahnge what they have anyway - more potatoes and traditional cooking than sandwiches