I was at my wits end and started reaserching Ritalin. After only like 2 pages I decided against it, obviously. But where does that leave me? With allergies 
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Well eliminating dairy seems the easiest of them all, even though I don't think it will be easy. But how can you eliminate things like processed foods w/out winning the lotto first. I've heard all that crap about healthy eating being cheaper, well I don't know where those people shop, but not in my neighborhood that's for sure. I don't do a ton of processed foods, but still. And what about wheat? If I cut wheat what will we eat? Especially my child who I know must have an allergy to something. I hope it's dairy cause he's a carb kid. He won't eat anything that's even looked at a veggie, no matter how we dress it up
: He'll eat fruits but geez I have to limit it for $ reasons. It's so easy and cheap to just give a chz stick or crackers or rice cakes 
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And regarding dairy, does that include goats milk? What's the problem with soy? I've heard it can have alot of sugar, and then I read something about it having hormomes
: Yikes. What about Lactaid milk?
How soon after elimiating one group will I see improvement in behaviour, or know that it wasn't the allergy and move on to the next group? I have ordered the Is This My Child book from my library and should have it in a couple days. Also he has a ped appt on Wed. I plan on asking for him to be tested for allergies. Is there a specific way of going about this w/out just leaving with a prescription for Ritalin? I don't know anything about this ped but assuming he's pretty mainstream is there a best way to approach him that's more likely to get his compliance right away?
:Well eliminating dairy seems the easiest of them all, even though I don't think it will be easy. But how can you eliminate things like processed foods w/out winning the lotto first. I've heard all that crap about healthy eating being cheaper, well I don't know where those people shop, but not in my neighborhood that's for sure. I don't do a ton of processed foods, but still. And what about wheat? If I cut wheat what will we eat? Especially my child who I know must have an allergy to something. I hope it's dairy cause he's a carb kid. He won't eat anything that's even looked at a veggie, no matter how we dress it up
: He'll eat fruits but geez I have to limit it for $ reasons. It's so easy and cheap to just give a chz stick or crackers or rice cakes :And regarding dairy, does that include goats milk? What's the problem with soy? I've heard it can have alot of sugar, and then I read something about it having hormomes
: Yikes. What about Lactaid milk?How soon after elimiating one group will I see improvement in behaviour, or know that it wasn't the allergy and move on to the next group? I have ordered the Is This My Child book from my library and should have it in a couple days. Also he has a ped appt on Wed. I plan on asking for him to be tested for allergies. Is there a specific way of going about this w/out just leaving with a prescription for Ritalin? I don't know anything about this ped but assuming he's pretty mainstream is there a best way to approach him that's more likely to get his compliance right away?
