Wheat free/casein free diet

[nikos]

Hi All,
As I've mentioned on a few threads, ds has been verbally dx with Aspergers. He is verbal and interacts well at home, but does shout a lot and be physically aggressive at preschool.
I've put of changing his diet as I have 2 other young children and dh works away a lot and I work. So life is very hectic and only want to make a change like that if it will have an impact.
I seem to get the impression that diet changes work more for regressive autism but am open to being wrong on that.
Has anyone seen changes with altering diet in milder ASD's and can anyone recommend a site or book with such recipes on it.
Thanks

My ds1 is as and I had his urine tested by Sunderland uni autism unit - it came back as positive for gluten intolerance and also some indication for casein. However, we tried gluten free for several months and absolutely no change so I gave up. He had such a resticted diet anyway that I think I would have noticed if food changed his mood and he has no particular bowel problems.
I agree with you about it only seeming to be classic autism where this has an impact, but I will try anything!

meant to say that I used 'vegetarian cooking without' by barbara cousins - the apricot muffins are fab! I also saw a nutritionist that pointed out that ds1 had quite a lot of sugar from dried fruit/juice and so on so I reduced that and gave him probiotics.

Can't comment on GF/CF diet for people with AS, however my DS1 who has ASD and has been casein free for a couple of year now, I found the following book very useful:

Diet Intervention and Autism
Implementing the Gluten Free and Casein Free Diet for Autistic Children and Adults - A Practical Guide for Parents