Sophie has been off of the GF/CF diet for a couple of months now. She does received enzymes with every meal. The results are not what I had hoped for. Her lips are constantly chapped and I think she would - how do you put it- “less autistic” if she was still on her diet.
She has not completely reverted to how she was before we began all of this. I see some improvement, she is not sitting on the floor lining up toys all day, but I see a lack of ability to communicate and less eye contact.
I have found some benefits. She has started to try new foods. She had cut her diet down to just a couple of things that she would eat. Her diet hasn’t been good, too much food that lacks much nutritional value, but a bonus, these things taste good. Trying new foods and having them please the pallet has caused her to experiment more! This opens up a whole new world! I am letting her try pretty much anything she wants, with enzymes, and I am adding good foods that are on the diet that taste good too. My goal is to expand her diet then start to cut out the non gf/cf foods again.
So there is some success to her leaving the diet with enzymes. In the long run, by expanding the foods she eats, the diet will be easier and mommy has a well needed rest for gf/cf cooking.
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Have you tried Pharmaceutical Grade fish oil? or Clay Baths? We have noticed remarkable improvements using them. We also give our daughter Flinstone Complete vitamins. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions about them.
Comment by Bellesan on February 26th, 2009 @ 5:48 pm