What do you think of this? A leading medical man on a respected website:
http://www.mayoclin ic.com/health/ autism-treatment /AN01519
Hmm...I beg to differ. Surely any expert on a subject must empower themselves with evidence, either statistical or anecdotal, from both sides of the argument. Making a blanket policy statement about diet is so misleading and unhelpful to parents needing to find the right way forward for their child. It may not help but it MAY.
At the end of the day, those of us who look after a child with special needs 24/7 including everything that enters their mouths, are the real experts. Doctors are mechanics of the body, but we are the specialists, and the data I have collected from my own child is more than enough proof to me and to the many people that help care for him that he is severely allergic to gluten and casein. Maybe the medical industry just hasn't developed the right means to show an allergic reaction in an autistic child, just as testing of IQ meant that without a verbal answer to a question, a silent autistic child was deemed to be mentally subnormal. All I know is that after seven years of terrible bowel movements, within a week of being GFCF my son's diarrhea stopped completely. Seven years to nothing. Within a week. What is that if it is not a measurable allergic reaction?
But sure. Bring on the high fructose corn syrup, the trans fats, red 40, blue 6, yellow 1...give them all that good stuff on a normal diet that the rest of America is doing so well on.
