Comments on: Celiac Disease Presenting as Autism

By: erinmidwife

erinmidwife — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:26:17 +0000

Also some of the proteins/gluten (also in dairy) can cause neurological impairment in those who cannot digest the proteins. My son effectively went from being a very verbal baby to mono-syllabically communicating a few months after he began to eat foods regularly (at about 12 months). After removing gluten and dairy from his diet at 18 months he almost immediately began talking more and speaking in actual words.

By: Our Family Is His

Our Family Is His — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:08:09 +0000

Can you come work for our doctors? I need someone like you to be down here because everyone is CLUELESS. We research, we find out what's happening, we fix it. But that's just a bandaid because we don't know the cause of the issues. The Mayo Clinic is interested in helping us, so we are on the road to seeing them (literally, will be flying out once their GI looks at all his tests and records). I show these things to doctors, they compare to his symptoms, they look at me like deer in a headlight.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:12:24 +0000

This is interesting...I have no doubt my daughter would have been diagnosed as autistic, had I not pushed for Celiac testing first. And even that was only a fluke finding, I was up late one night trying to connect all of her vague symptoms together, and thank goodness for google search that turned up Celiac!

She still has some lingering spectrum symptoms, but not enough to be diagnosed. For that I am thankful!