Immediately following his diagnosis in late June, I started him on the gluten free, casein free diet. His diet's very low sugar and very little processed foods other than a small bag of plain crisps ever so often. So, here is a menu sample:
Breakfast
2 Eggs scrambled with olive oil - grated courgettes or onion OR
1 Avocado pureed with 2 bananas and a sweet potato (this is his yogurt) OR
2-4 rice cakes with nut butter and a little maple syrup
Lunch/Dinner
Rice noodles with chicken and veggies sauteed OR
Brown rice/Quinoa with lamb and veggies OR
Salmon with broccoli and rice pilaf (minced peppers, onion, garlic)
Snacks
coconut milk
almond milk
pistachios
Juicing - 1 or 2 glasses per day
carrots, celery, cucumber, apples, spinach, kale
The issues we need to address with his diet are as follows:
1. Add more protein; even if it's pureed and added to his yogurt - it's more important that he get the protein than worry about him chewing (to develop motor functions of the mouth)
2. Purify water supply; our city water comes from the old system of pipes were leaking lead could possibly be an issue. Get a water filter jug asap and use that for everyone's water - this includes cooking with.
3. Adding a few supplements; aloe vera juice, calcium, etc. A detailed outline of our meeting will arrive to me on Monday.
4. Pull back on the probiotic and see what happens over the weekend as Jack had a terrible weekend past herxing and stimming - probably due to candida (yeast) die off from the high count probiotic. Instead of this slow, plainful die off - Jean wants to get the test results back from his pee/poo labs and go from there. When we do this die off - it will be all in ONE week. It will be hell but it's got to be done, rather than dragging out for Jack.
5. Lessen the amount of epsom salts in the bath but give every day instead of every other day, start with a spoonful and work up to two teacups each bath. Kane is encouraged to take these baths as well and also start taking the fish oil.
6. Stop the peanut butter, and start other nut butters - he had a lot of PB this weekend and stimmed like crazy. There is a mold issue with peanut butter that is not well known, causing allergic reactions that take the form of stimming for ASD kids.
7. Switch out his pillow to an allergy free, and get allergy free covers for his blankets and pillow.
A few other issues:
ASD kids are sensitive to mold and our house in Dromadrehid was FULL of it. The house was so wet with condensation it dripped down the walls, and many rooms had mold growing up the ceilings. Jack lived there for a year with us, we moved in and he received his MMR only weeks later. We thought it might be an issue with the mold growth, and it turns out it was.
Jack's MMR gave him severe reactions: within two weeks he developed stomatitis which is an awful, painful lesion virus in your mouth. It's a strain of the herpes virus. THEN, after just recovering from that, he picked up chicken pox. Another, herpes virus - just a different strain again. Dr. Jean believes there is a correlation between Jack's immune system, his autistic-like symptoms and these infections. His immune system could believe he is still fighting these viruses, possibly because they could still be present in his gut. (PUKE)
She also wants to address the issue with his skin - the many, many bumps on his arms and legs - almost pin like hard pimples. This is a fatty acid deficiency so the fat in protein like fish and the oils will help with this.
She also wants an x-ray of his stomach done to make absolutely sure there are no blockages in his gut, we need Dr. Ralph to order that. He also needs to order a urine test for some deficiencies that could also be affecting his behavior. All those details of what to tell the doctor are coming in Monday's outline from Jean.
These are photos of Jack before we moved to Ireland, he was around 6 months old...more later.
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