hello communtingmum, i dotn have any experience of leaky gut syndrome but someone will be along soon who does ive no doubt.
I have a problem with food, from my childhood, my mum always blamed school but i couldnt get her to see that i was affected before that because i was made to eat whatever was offered and i would cry and cry , i remember her saying if you dont eat the tomatoes you will go to bed hungry and i did!!! i didnt care, the thought of putting a cold tomato in my mouth made me (and still does) want to vomit, im like this with strawberries,kiwi fruit,grapefruit, i desensitised myself to mushrooms it took until i was 30 though!!!!!
When i was a teenager i survived on a diet of white bread,chips and gravy and hardly ate anything else, even now i still eat virtually the same things that i have been doing for years and if something new comes out i cant bear to try it cos it might not "feel right".
DD is very strict with her diet, that link described her perfectly, she mainly eats mashed potato and beans and yoghurts (no bits) she has a thing about white and orange foods!!!!!
DS still has a foodtimetable but in the last month ive managed to get him to eat home made bolognaise sauce with lots and lots of pureed hidden veg in it!!!! but that took us nearly 6 months of eating it,i used to put some in a bowl near to him when he was eating his own food but now he eats it!!!!