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Originally Posted by riomidwife  Jane, can you share more about your LOs symptoms and how they improved or changed with your new awareness of the salycilate issue? THANKS!
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I had connected many of these issues already over the last several years to certain foods and eliminated them, but there were still some foods (cucumbers, peppers, berries) remaining that caused low level or every once in a while problems that were hard to connect to the cause. Now that the salicylates are all gone the symptoms are all gone.
-skin is absolutely perfect not a bump or dry skin anywhere nevermind an eczema rash.
-sleeping regularly 11 hrs or more/night which he has NEVER done in his life.
-behavioral issues, argumentative, yelling, meltdowns disappeared.
-yawning during day, not having energy in afternoon, overtired cranky argumentative mess at bedtime gone.
-not leaking urine during day, in past with more salicylates in his diet he would have accidents where he'd just completely let go and pee all over floor too.
He was always a really good kid, most especially in public and in school. And I understand 5 year olds just naturally have have behavioral issues but I cannot tell you difference now! He is even more of a joy! This is the kind of stuff only a mother that is with him every day would recognize a change in. Although my good friend has commented too. DS is just so much more easy going now, which he's NEVER been since those horrible days of newborn colic! Which has also been mentioned as a salicylate intolerance btw.
I have read the Feingold stuff and I can clearly see that if DS were eating conventionally he would be ADD or ADHD. We have had days from hell in the past and it was all b/c of food (such as a day with tomatoes and berries and cucumbers).
And supposedly the fruits and veggies are not as strong at the salicylates in artificial colors, flavors (vanillin) and preservatives (BHA, BHT, TBHQ). DS has been on a whole foods diet his entire life so we never really tested these things much. He had a cupcake containing blue food coloring and probably preservatives that his father gave him... and reacted severely: he couldn't calm down and sleep when he was clearly tired, he was hitting and yelling and hyperactive, like a different child. He had a breathing treatment in the doctor's office I think it was Albuterol? that was blue in color and became totally jacked up.
Feingold/FAILSAFE have also connected eye muscle disorders (lazy eye), poor muscle tone/coordination, irritable bladder, IBS, reflux, tics and Tourette's and seizures in addition to autism/ADD/ADHD and ODD oppositional defiant disorder to salicylate intolerance. I personally have had my IC (interstitial cystitis) flare due to overdosing on salicylates and believe that was a central issue for me.
Right now STBXH still doesn't want to believe DS is intolerant to salicylates so we will be challenging during April vacation, I'll let you know what happens!
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(Seriously, I need to learn more about MSM and salicylates.)
thanks for startin ghtis thread, gota check out the links.
