Elizabeth Hill

>I have lots and lots of thoughts and ideas and resources. The chewing in
>itself is a sign. Many, many Asperger's children chew their clothing.
What
>you need to di is do a web search on Aspergers, Autism, Tony Atwood, and
>bipolar. Read, read read. On the message boards there is a folder for
>special needs kids with some just wonderful moms to talk to.Go there and
ask
>very specific questions, the more specific the better.

HI -

A mom at the park yesterday has some worries about autisim and Asperger's
being linked to food allergies. Have any of you heard anything about that?
(She wasn't extremely clear, but I'd still like to help her.)

She is breastfeeding a 7 month old who is allergic to many of the foods
that the mother eats. (Gets hyper if she eats them and stays up til
midnight.) She has restricted her diet, but giving up wheat and dairy and
several other things does get to be a burden. She's anxious about the long
term effect of her diet on her infant.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for more research?

Thanks, Betsy

Tracy Oldfield

HI -

A mom at the park yesterday has some worries about
autisim and Asperger's
being linked to food allergies. Have any of you heard
anything about that?
(She wasn't extremely clear, but I'd still like to
help her.)

She is breastfeeding a 7 month old who is allergic to
many of the foods
that the mother eats. (Gets hyper if she eats them and
stays up til
midnight.) She has restricted her diet, but giving up
wheat and dairy and
several other things does get to be a burden. She's
anxious about the long
term effect of her diet on her infant.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for more
research?

Thanks, Betsy

If she wants reassurance that breastfeeding (and for
such an allergic child, the longer it's exclusive,
probably the better) is not going to damage her or the
child, and also for basic allergy stuff, I'd start with
LLL's website, www.lalecheleague.org if there's a
group in your area, so much the better. It might have
a different name over there, but there's a professional
liasion panel, where a LLL Leader can ask a medical
professional about specific queries which strictly
speaking fall outside a Leader's specific
responsibility/experience. Also, there's an 'ask the
experts' message board at www.promom.org HTH

Tracy

DiamondAir

> From: "Elizabeth Hill" <ecsamhill@...>
> A mom at the park yesterday has some worries about autisim and Asperger's
> being linked to food allergies. Have any of you heard anything about
that?
> (She wasn't extremely clear, but I'd still like to help her.)

I would suggest the book "Say Goodbye to Allergy-Related Autism" by Dr.
Nambudripad. You can find out more about this book (and a whole lot more
info on this subject) at: http://www.naet.com


> She is breastfeeding a 7 month old who is allergic to many of the foods
> that the mother eats. (Gets hyper if she eats them and stays up til
> midnight.) She has restricted her diet, but giving up wheat and dairy and
> several other things does get to be a burden. She's anxious about the
long
> term effect of her diet on her infant.


I went through a lot of this last summer when my daughter was about the same
age. My son (also nursing) had a severe food allergy reaction and I had to
eliminate tons of stuff from my diet. For several months there I was eating
no meat, dairy, fish, shellfish, nuts, soy products, or gluten .... which as
you can guess basically left me with almost nothing to eat! Both of my
nurslings were fine through this period, even my daughter who was almost
exclusively breastfed (she was just starting to get some solids). She
weighed 25 lbs at one year old, so I know she wasn't starving, LOL. BTW, we
used the NAET treatments I mentioned above to totally get rid of my son's
allergies.

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