The Journal of Child Neurology published an article called “Celiac Disease Presenting as Autism.” Julie Matthews has a synopsis on the article on her website Nourishing Hope for Autism. A five year old who was diagnosed with severe autism was later was diagnosed with celiac. It was discovered he had severe nutrient deficiencies of vitamin […]
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Roasted pumpkin seeds can become a tradition every bit as special as candy, carved pumpkins, spooky decorations and costumes. Not only do roasted pumpkin seeds go hand in hand with carving a pumpkin, but they also go very well with trick or treating because pumpkin seeds are one of the most nutritious seeds around. Seeds, […]  I was looking up Prometheus Lab to find a link to the Prometheus Celiac Plus test, which includes serology (blood) tests and genetic tests for celiac. It is the “gold standard” of celiac tests and the one used by the Celiac Center of Columbia. I stumbled upon a NEW test which can be used for […]  Enzymes are used by the body to break down food into useable molecules. Foods contain these enzymes, but the enzymes are destroyed over temperatures of 105 degrees. In addition, processing of food also destroys enzymes. Raw foods are rich in enzymes. Lack of digestive enzymes can be a factor for people with food allergies and […] loading
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Tamara - 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!
Our Family Is His - 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.
erinmidwife - 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.