Autism and Asperger's Nutritional Concerns
Nutrition starts prior to birth—in the womb! What you eat when you are pregnant will affect your unborn child. Is it a mother's fault that her child has autism? Let's not even go there. Too many factors are involved in the debate of autism causes and "cures." What matters now is what you do for your child today, from birth onwards.
Does the food a child eats matter? Or should you just be glad your child agrees to eat anything at all? Is there such a thing as a "leaky gut" found in children with autism or Asperger's?
Does the food a child eats matter? Or should you just be glad your child agrees to eat anything at all? Is there such a thing as a "leaky gut" found in children with autism or Asperger's?
Experience tells us that what any child eats will help determine their general health and development as well as emotional temperament and mental ability. Experienced parents of children in the autism spectrum can readily speak of how the foods their children eat influence behavior, health, and development. There is much to learn about nutrition and the effective use of proper diet, which may help bring your child into a more functional world.
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What You Need To Know
- Food matters.
- A leaky gut exists.
- Food intolerances are life-threatening.
- Food allergies and intolerances are hard to prove by some medical testing.
- Alternative medicine provides many answers that are not found in traditional medicine.
What You Should Do
Does nutrition hold the cure for autism and Asperger's?
Probably not.
Do the right foods dramatically increase a child's ability to function and be more behaviorally manageable?
Yes!
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Patience, good documentation, and careful monitoring of foods, environment, and stimulation provide vital information that can save your child's life and increase his ability to interact with the world around him. Documentation is the way to determine what you can do to best help your child and track if what you are doing may truly be having a positive outcome on your child. Doctors, psychologists, and educators will take you more seriously if you have good notes to support your ideas that may benefit your child.
Good documentation includes a chart with the date, time of day, any and all foods eaten and amounts, behavior, sleep, and daily activities.
Good documentation includes a chart with the date, time of day, any and all foods eaten and amounts, behavior, sleep, and daily activities.
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