NO MILK FOR ME

Mike and I decided that we wanted to take Christian off of his Casein (Dairy-free) diet for his upcoming clinical evaluation for autism. It was our feelings that the Dairy was a dietary intervention that makes a dramatic difference in Christian's behaviors and responsiveness and we wanted the evaluator to get a clear picture of our son. Within only an hour or so of each item of dairy he ingested (Milk, pizza, ice cream, cheetos), we could truly see a diffrent child. When Christian ingests dairy products he screams for no reason and can not be easily consoled, he is highly uncooperative, and shows stomach distress. We noticed that he would have more diarhea type stools on milk. Christian's asthma symptoms returned and we had to use his nebulizer for the first time in a long period. He would cough until he gagged and threw up. I noticed that he could not sleep and we were into the wee hours of morning without a nap. He seemed to almost act as if he had been given a stimulant of some sort and it was speeding him up. His sister, Nicole, who is 5, asked repeatedly " Is this not my real brother? When do we get the real brother back??" When we first sought a behavioral evaluation/plan it was primarily for the lack of cooperation, non-responsiveness, and chronic yelling.... it went away and we thought it had all been therapy gains. Milk will make you take a rapid double take of what it could really be for him. We saw all of those problem behaviors arise in Christian when we put back in the dairy. His Meme heard him on the phone and was shocked at the diffrence. As a matter of fact, she was so shocked about how much of a diffrent a natural remedy made for him that she has began to pursue some holistic treatments herself for her own health issues. Thankfully, as of this date, Christian is off dairy. We have to make some adjustments to his diet, but when we lose sight of how critical it is too be off dairy, this is a vivid reminder.