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My advice to parents: give CF diet a whirl if you want, and see if it helps your kid. If so, cool! If not, no big deal - it’s not reported to work on all kids. If you want to try GF (which is much more of a pain in the ass), go for it. Lord knows I haven’t. Again, not a big deal either way. If you don’t feel like trying dietary changes at all, that’s fine. Dietary changes are a lot harder to implement that you might think. Especially since food allergies are often co-morbid with autism.
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When I finally said “I’m sick of being sick” after having been on half a dozen different types of antacids, treated for ulcers, told I had IBS - I decided to cut out the two most common food sensitivities - gluten and dairy - simultaneously. I have a friend who is both gluten free and dairy free, so I had a fairly good example.
I couldn’t do it. Partly because I then came down with raving insomnia and sort of freaked out (not from the dietary changes, I think the insomnia was unrelated). So I went back to my normal diet and when I started up again, I gave up the easier one - gluten.
Now, I’m not strict - but gluten free these days is pretty easy. Dairy was hard. Soy milk/rice milk - not remotely the same. Gluten free cookies - not too bad.
(Gluten free bread, not the same - but I’ve learned to cope).