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Name: kfliearman
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I have an 8 year old son who have been diagnosis with PDD-NOS. It took about 4 years to come to that and was misdiagnosis countless of times. He was asked to leave 2 preschool schools, 1 daycare and general ed Kindergarten. He is now in a EI program because that is the only option we have in our school system. We tried all the different medications and not one would help. He is extremely smart but struggles socially and becomes very aggressive. I'm getting the feeling that his teacher of 2 years in the EI program is starting to give up on him. We tried therapy and consoling and still he struggles daily. The only thing I haven't tried is the gluten free, casein free diet. Has anyone tried this and does it really work?
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Name: dwwittman | Date: Jun 1st, 2010 8:06 PM
It absolutly helps!!! My son is 2.5 yrs. I decided to mess with the intake of his milk because he wasn't eating, just drinking lots of milk. At first I was only giving it to him at nap time and bed time. I was noticing that at sleep times he would be crazy and it would take him hours to fall asleep. So, I stopped giving him the milk all together and he would fall asleep within a half hour. Conclusion-the milk was making him hyper!

Also, I recently took my son to a nutritionist. She recomended to give all organic foods. Which for my son and his food aversions, meant I had to make homemade baby food. Foods like free range eggs, grass fed beef, stone ground or blue corn chips, no artificial colorings or flavorings, limited amonts of sugar or none at all, a daily vitamin, DHA (Omega 3, cod liver fish oil) supplement, and no wheat. She also recomended to give him only water because she said we sould eat our nutrition not drink it, juice also has a lot of sugar.

My son, Tre, after a month and a half started to say words more consitently, before he would randomly say things or not at all. He is giving more eye contact, he consentrates better, he is playing with my husband and I more, he does things to make me laugh, and he is eating more food and has been willing to try more foods.

I agree fully that you should change up your kid's diet, if possible. I know it is hard to get most autistic kids to eat in general, but this seems to really be helping my son out. It doesn't hurt to try it, If you don't see a change then just go back to his normal diet. I say do whatever it takes to help your kid. 

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