Any families eliminate food for behavior/aggression issues? Support group!

[spatulagirl]

Just looking for support and advice

We are on Day 8 of an elimination diet for my oldest. We have suffered through years of aggression, teasing, ADD-like symptoms, refusal to talk to people, refusal to forgive, won't look people in the eyes, etc. before someone mentioned to me it could be food related! I felt like such a dork, I had NO CLUE food could cause that sort of behavior.

So we recently eliminated: dairy, soy, gluten/wheat, sugar, dye, eggs, corn and chocolate. After about six days of withdrawals and insane crankiness, we are starting to see a different DS. It has me really hopeful for our family future. Just two weeks ago I was sure I was raising a monster. He hasn't raged in three entire days!

We are going to stay like this for another two weeks and then try to introduce the foods and see what his triggers are.

Anyone else been through or going through a similar situation?

[changingseasons]

That's fantastic that you are seeing results!

Behavior is just one of many symptoms of DD's allergies. But it's a big one!! Depending on the food (different allergens give her different symptoms), she can change into a totally different kid- aggressive, overly-sensitive, you name it. But as soon as the food is out of her system, she goes back to normal.

[momto4plus4]

Dairy & red food dye for my ds. He's actually been seen having a rage episode so the ped and allergist totally believe me. He's started outgrowing it but we still have to limit his dairy intake. Until age 5, within 1-2 weeks of being on dairy, even just a yogurt/day, he'd turn aggressive and have horrible anger outbursts. He reacted to red dye from day 1-we realized it from the infant tylenol we tried.

Kids can react in such different ways and our allergist said that even though the blood & skin tests came back negative for a dairy allergy, he agreed that allergies can show in unusual ways and his may just be a severe intolerance (he had allergic colitis as an infant/toddler).

I hope this works for you!!!