Post by Autism Dr Mumbai on Jul 17, 2020 14:24:33 GMT
autism is not a dietary deficiency.
special diet like gfcf or gaps diet in autism had made a greta amrket like homeopathy did.
inulun based diets are followed by some people saying gut infection. Homeopaths claim that gut fungal or inflamation needs that special diet. Its not so.
All this is wrong.
Autism is not a dietary disease. Autism is not related to gluten or celiac disease.
Then why the fuss about diet in autism?
There are 3 reasons:
1. Autism is a sensory issue/ pathology. Autism kids donot sense the sense of gut movement or digestion or gut distension clearly
2. Autism is associated with constipation in 70% cases mainly because people tend to give power diets like milk and dry fruits [people feel it helps in brain development nut it doesnt] in excess in autism and all of these are constipating diets.
3. Altered gut sense, make sthe brain interpret sense wrongly and hence , child gives a wierd sensory response,. This causes restless and agitation more so with constipation and child will start running or screaming at times or just keep crying or cranky ... all because of indigestion.
And these are the 3 reasons, why diet needs to be changed in autism. but not to gluten free or GFCF or GAPS but only that diet needs to be stopped from gut for 6 months, which is known to cause gut sensory confusion.
So which diet is not easy to digest?
The food items which are not easy to crush /cook or digest are heavy protein supplelements, dry fruits, seeded fruits like pomogranate and hard pulses like red or toor or arhar daal, hard peas etc. Also casein in animal milk cannot be digested by human gut and it starts getting stacked as constipation. [There is strong evidence that animal milk causes constipation too.} Only this diet needs to be stopped.
To summarize, in autism no special diet needed. The diet that causes sensory chaos and worsening of aggression or agitataion in autism kids like milk/cheeze/paneer [casein rich foods] dry fruits daals [ high phosphate foods] and pomogranate [seeded fruits] , needs to be stopped. it has nothing to do with sugar, wheat, maida. but bajri, oats, jowar are hard to cook / digest diets.
In other words if we continue above dietary items crankiness or constipation may persist or get converted to agitation and this will affect concentration and will affect learning initiation.
Barring these Child can eat any other diet as much child wants to.
DONOT GO FOR SPECIAL DIET PREPARATION PREPARED AT HOME OR MARKETED. JUST REMEMBER WHAT NOT TO GIVE FOR SIX MONTHS.
special diet like gfcf or gaps diet in autism had made a greta amrket like homeopathy did.
inulun based diets are followed by some people saying gut infection. Homeopaths claim that gut fungal or inflamation needs that special diet. Its not so.
All this is wrong.
Autism is not a dietary disease. Autism is not related to gluten or celiac disease.
Then why the fuss about diet in autism?
There are 3 reasons:
1. Autism is a sensory issue/ pathology. Autism kids donot sense the sense of gut movement or digestion or gut distension clearly
2. Autism is associated with constipation in 70% cases mainly because people tend to give power diets like milk and dry fruits [people feel it helps in brain development nut it doesnt] in excess in autism and all of these are constipating diets.
3. Altered gut sense, make sthe brain interpret sense wrongly and hence , child gives a wierd sensory response,. This causes restless and agitation more so with constipation and child will start running or screaming at times or just keep crying or cranky ... all because of indigestion.
And these are the 3 reasons, why diet needs to be changed in autism. but not to gluten free or GFCF or GAPS but only that diet needs to be stopped from gut for 6 months, which is known to cause gut sensory confusion.
So which diet is not easy to digest?
The food items which are not easy to crush /cook or digest are heavy protein supplelements, dry fruits, seeded fruits like pomogranate and hard pulses like red or toor or arhar daal, hard peas etc. Also casein in animal milk cannot be digested by human gut and it starts getting stacked as constipation. [There is strong evidence that animal milk causes constipation too.} Only this diet needs to be stopped.
To summarize, in autism no special diet needed. The diet that causes sensory chaos and worsening of aggression or agitataion in autism kids like milk/cheeze/paneer [casein rich foods] dry fruits daals [ high phosphate foods] and pomogranate [seeded fruits] , needs to be stopped. it has nothing to do with sugar, wheat, maida. but bajri, oats, jowar are hard to cook / digest diets.
In other words if we continue above dietary items crankiness or constipation may persist or get converted to agitation and this will affect concentration and will affect learning initiation.
Barring these Child can eat any other diet as much child wants to.
DONOT GO FOR SPECIAL DIET PREPARATION PREPARED AT HOME OR MARKETED. JUST REMEMBER WHAT NOT TO GIVE FOR SIX MONTHS.