Reintroducing Gluten - DD2's now a nightmare, how do I know it's the gluten?

[mumgoingcrazy]

Hello all, I don't post very often but I know lots of your DC are GF, or DF etc and wondered if you could help me?

DD2 was dairy free last summer for 3 months (as requested by BIBIC), it made no difference so she went back on it, although still not given very much. They then advised me to make her GF. It's been 7 months now, I didn't think it had made any difference at all so BIBIC said to reintroduce it again, however our retained reflexes therapist said to keep her off for just a few more months whilst we were at a crucial point in their therapy. This week she has said to start reintroducing gluten again so yesterday I gave her a little bit of cereal and then GF for the rest of the day. Yesterday pm she was very teary and emotional and last night she screamed for 2 hours, but didn't seem to be awake, more like she was doing it in her sleep.

The issue I have is that I don't know if this could be because she had some gluten yesterday, or that it's our new retained reflexes exercises (which does have an affect on her sleeping anyway) or was she having a bad day anyway (which we do get).

She is GF again today and figured I would wait a few more weeks until we were in a good patch before reintroducing it again.

My question really is, how do I know if these emotions are gluten related, and what kind of behaviour does your DC display if they accidentally have some gluten?

TIA
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well, see this:

Constipation
"Another complication of dehydration can be constipation. When water is in short supply in the body, the colon will act to restrict unnecessary water loss through the stools. Colon muscles will contract to squeeze out and subsequently reabsorb water back into circulation. This can result in harder stools that are not only more difficult to pass, but may also irritate and weaken the walls of the colon, resulting in small pockets known as diverticuli. Since the water that the colon reabsorbs back into circulation is not filtered water, but wastewater, it must then be filtered by the liver and the kidneys. This may place additional strain on these overworked organs."

Nutrition Info: Dangers of Chronic Dehydration by Albert Grazia, M.S., N.D.

Add a few flaxseeds to the soup or other liquid food from time to time. Flaxseeds have soluble fibre that helps smooth passage of food through the gut. Make sure you increase liquids tho, I think there is a connection here.

Not sure why you say she has v high fibre diet (what foods exactly?), this may be part of the problem.

Oops forgot to include a link to this American autism website as I think it has an excellent page on poo issues.

www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/medical/poop.htm

I promise to shut up about shite now

Thank you both, high fibre diet in that for breakfast today she had porridge oats with stewed apple and chopped prunes in it, followed by an orange. Lunch is chicken, 3 veg and some mash followed by another piece of fruit (never bananas), and tea is similar or a veg soup, she averages 8-10 portions of fruit/veg per day along with oats, wholemeal rice/bread etc. We avoid bananas and eggs, and also don't give too much pasta, bread etc.

Yesterday she wasn't too bad drinking, I bought lemon squash and she loved it. Not ideal but if it's liquid I'm happy.

Thanks for the link ovenchips