Personal experience: the whole truth about a gluten-free diet

Its challenging, but effective experience with readers Woman.ForumDaily shares Marina Sokolovskaya - a blogger and just a wonderful mother.

About gluten and how my daughter allegedly was cured of autism by a diet ..

My daughter Nicky NEVER had autism. I.e, she, of course, the doctors diagnosed autistic spectrum, put stubbornly. And she 100% coincided with this diagnosis, if I may say so. She did not speak, slept a lot, ate poorly (constant nausea, bloating, bad stool), she did not catch a glance, she did not allow herself to be picked up from 4 months, she loved to lie or sit alone and make repetitive movements, play alone, she did not have a feeling of affection, or rather, it was not as it should be - she could leave the playground and go nowhere ... I think this is enough, although it can be described for a long time. Now imagine that this diagnosis has not been confirmed. Everything I described above passed and turned out to be an elementary gluten allergy.

With Masha (this is another daughter of mine, with Nika they are fraternal twins) there were no such problems. There were two others - various skin rashes and uncontrolled attacks of aggression from early childhood. It wasn't even hell. I already agreed that she took the pills.
For the third year now, Nika has been observed in one of the best hospitals in the United States - Mount Sinai, in the department of genetics. The doctors of this clinic, I repeat, one of the best in the country, at the very first appointment asked me about gluten, milk and sugar. American psychiatrists ask the same questions when you bring a child, like my Marusya or Veronica. The average American doctor says: Have you ever tried gluten fries, dairy fries? Was the sugar removed?

Recently, questions about colored dyes have been added, that is, all these chupas, chups, they are also asked about, and not a grandmother-healer, but doctors. So those who talk about a sect should go to those psychiatrists themselves.

Before the diet, I went through a wild amount of doctors with Nika. I put up with the diagnosis autistic spectrum, and we went to special classes for these children for two years ... Until one day in September 2013, I did not throw out all the pasta and cookies from the house. By that time I had been on this diet myself for two years. And also not from great joy. I had eczema that I treated with 20 years. Everything went on a diet in two or a few weeks ... And for some reason I decided one September day that the children should try to live like that too. Just try. I thought it would help Masha, I did not want to put her on pills, on a sedative. I didn't think about Nick then.

There is still an important point: for the children to be on a diet, I have to get up at six in the morning and cook them not only three breakfasts, but two more lunches each with them to school, because there is no such food at school. Shut up already, that it immediately became more difficult to go to the movies with a pizza, or on someone's birthday. What I mean is that to live with gluten in terms of cooking is a hundred million times easier when it comes to children.
In general, I threw everything out. And I forgot. Two weeks passed. My son Gurik came up to me and said - Mom, tell Nika to shut up !!! I answered automatically - how do you talk! And suddenly I realized that my child was talking ... She was six years and three months old, she spoke worse than a three-year-old child. My mom, two sisters, two sons-in-law, Eddie can confirm that we didn't really know her voice, because she was silent. Or she spoke so badly that only those closest to her understood her.

And then I understand what my child is saying. I go up to her and ask - Nika, are you talking ??? She is very surprised - yes, and I can't stop.
Of course, my mother sobbed, two sisters sat as if they were knocked out - they both read, they knew, but none of us expected such an effect. It's funny, because one sister is also a doctor, a good American doctor who never questions this diet, moreover, no, no, she will throw me scientific articles in English on this subject. I threw one of them recently from 1985…. That is, there is nothing newfangled about it.

When Nika spoke sharply, at first it was like this - the food smelled delicious at school, and my children ate quietly. And I always knew when Nika or Masha ate. Nika immediately became a zombie, as she was before, Masha immediately became very aggressive. I went to school and told the cafeteria to kick them out. And then the process went faster. In the first two years, Nika caught up with English almost to her level; today it is what a ten-year-old girl should have. Russian has grown by just three heads and today we calmly communicate in this language. She made a bunch of friends, she began to study quietly in the class without Masha, and it only did good, she forgot about her bad appetite, she looks in the eyes, she stopped sleeping 20 hours a day, etc. Almost everything is gone. Masha is an ordinary girl, no one will ever say now that with her behavior she brought me to a pressure of under two hundred.

What is important to understand:
- I never say that this diet is a panacea. No way. But I say that yes, in the list of diseases that in fact may not be diseases, but the consequences of a severe allergy, there are almost 100 names, let's say. From asthma to schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and systemic lupus. All types of allergies. By the way, when I met Eddie, I met a handsome man, but a terrible allergy. He sneezed and coughed and cried from everything. I quietly put him on a diet. Now we have a dog and two porpoises, he lives in the middle of the dust now (we have renovations) and tfu, tfu, tfu. Nutritionists call gluten allergy the most insidious, precisely because it mimics other sores.

In general, this is not a panacea, but why not try? No one has died from the lack of sweet bread on the menu.
- No, analyzes may not show nichrome. It is ideal to do this - do not eat gluten, then eat three weeks later and then go to the test. And just to hand over there is almost no point.

- Yes, it's a cheap filler. It is in every thick sauce (regular fried flour), it is in soy sauce, in sweets, where the filling lasts - often, in sausages, squash or eggplant caviar, sausage, ... .. it is everywhere, so if you want to try diet, you must understand that the food should be simple in composition or marked gluten free, otherwise there is no guarantee that you are on a diet.

- Children can become easier in two or three weeks, I felt improvements in three weeks. Ideally, a month without gluten, and you can understand if you need it or not. My son can eat it calmly and nothing happens to him (tfu, tfu, tfu), but he doesn’t eat simply because it’s easier for me to buy the same food for everyone.

- And yes, everything is not limited to celiac disease. Therefore, there is no need for examples that such allergy sufferers are extremely few, and here is the data on celiac disease. Do not.

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