We've been gluten-free for seven weeks and plan on continuing for a full three month trial. So far, DS1 has had no improvement in symptoms (we're trying to help him seem less "drugged" and "hectic" and be able to focus better!). HOWEVER, we did see a drastic increase in NEGATIVE symptoms around week three in our trial. I realized that in avoiding gluten, we had been consuming many products full of CORN which DS has had some intolerance to in the past (I thought we were past that but maybe we can only tolerate a little!) The negative behavior lasted for several weeks until finally I tried eliminating natural salicylates (we don't do preservatives or food dyes already!) including corn, tomato, oranges, and peanuts and we saw improvement within a week or two!
I just wanted to share since this has been a very interesting process! Again, I've always heard that gluten takes many months to get out of the system entirely so we are going to persevere. I was just amazed at the whole salicylate thing. The thing is, many of the foods we're eliminating on a low-salicylate diet are so nutrient rich and healthy whereas gluten doesn't seem to be nutritionally necessary!
I just wanted to share since this has been a very interesting process! Again, I've always heard that gluten takes many months to get out of the system entirely so we are going to persevere. I was just amazed at the whole salicylate thing. The thing is, many of the foods we're eliminating on a low-salicylate diet are so nutrient rich and healthy whereas gluten doesn't seem to be nutritionally necessary!
