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What Diets Work For Children With Developmental Problems?
By Rodger Bailey
Within the community of parents and therapeutic practitioners for children with developmental problems, there is a lot of commentary about a diet program called, "Gluten-Free, Casein-Free" (GFCF). This diet plan eliminates foods with gluten and casein. There is a lot of commentary because some families have used this plan with their children and have had miraculous results and other families have seen no change in their children. Gluten is a mixture of some proteins in certain grains. In wheat flour, it provides the elasticity in the dough and becomes a component in the process of the dough rising. Some people have an allergy to gluten (wheat allergy) or an autoimmune response (celiac disease) to gluten which results in problems with the intestinal villi. Developmental problems are known to be associated with these conditions. Casein is a cow milk protein similar to gluten. Some people have an allergy to casein and other milk components. Some people have lactose intolerance, which is a non-allergic reaction. Some have milk protein intolerance which has similar symptoms to the milk allergy with a few extra warning signs. In my former intel about the causes of developmental problems in children, I discussed hypersensitive immune reactions to various environmental factors having an impact on the developmental process. In our testing, we do find that many children's developmental process has been blocked by wheat or by milk (among other things). And, sometimes we find that a child will be affected by both of them together. However, what we have found is that developmental problems result from hypersensitive immune response to many factors in the environment (usually 12 to 25 difference factors), not just one or two. If a child with developmental problems did have hypersensitive immune responses to both wheat and milk products, and the family starts using the gluten-free and casein-free approaches to food for the child, there could be a dramatic improvement in the child's condition. It would relate to the child's exposure to the other factors to which the child is sensitive. When a child starts the GFCF diet and does re-engage the developmental process, the parents believe that gluten and casein are the causes of their child's developmental problems and they often become missionaries in their community. They want to convert every other family with a child who has developmental problems to a GFCF regimen. They believe that all developmental problems are rooted in the same dietary problems. But, children who have developmental problems do not have the same menu of sensitivities and intolerances as do other children with similar problems. The symptoms are not necessarily related to the things to which the child is sensitive to or intolerant of. The commentary in the community of parents and practitioners is about the miraculous changes that some children have and the lack of change for other children on the same GFCF diet. From my experience this difference in results is expected. When we test children, we know exactly which foods and other environmental factors are the ones to which a child will react. It is not common for us to find a child who only reacts to the items which are restricted by the GFCF diet. Children can react to a wide variety of things they touch, breathe, and ingest. The real solution to re-engage the developmental process and get the child back on track is to test the child and then establish a program which eliminates all the things to which the child reacts from the child's environment. It is not just foods, and it is rarely only a few items. |
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Wow... I was wondering about diet and environment. I just hate the idea of putting kids on drugs as a matter of course to solve issues just because they don't know what else to do. It sure sounds as if you're on top of it. Keep up the great work. We as a society need to figure this out.
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James: My wife and I have started a distance learning doctoral program so that we can perform the academic level research to prove the protocols we have developed for working with these children. We have a Blog/Forum about this kind of school and our experiences with it. Here, I'm writing intel about the immune system, the developmental process and problems with it, our life in Uruguay, and about graduate school for folks in their mid-60s who cannot drop everything and go away to live at a university. Thanks for your kind notes about my intel postings. Rodger
It's good to know that in this day of kids and junk food, that there are people who are dedicated to helping children with serious problems.
Once again, great intel.
Frederick
I hear a lot about gluten-free these days. Nobody ever talked about it when we were kids. It seemed weird to me that something as ordinary as bread can be harmful. But it has been pointed out to me that wheat isn't endemic to America. That kinda resonates. The staple food here is supposed to be corn.
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