So It has been 2 weeks now that we have both stopped CLO & started GF. His stims are much less now. DH & I can't agree on whether they are just back to where they were before the CLO or even less. DH thinks its less and due to the diet, but I think its just back to before and due to the removal of CLO.
The only way we'll know for sure it to reintroduce the CLO at some point & see if the stims go back up. I do think he was more focussed on it but he was starting to flap like crazy and I had heard that was a possible side effect. Maybe I'll do some research and see if anyone reported better results with a certain brand. We were using Nordic Naturals Children's DHA soft gels. Victor loved them and ate them like candy. I was only giving him 1 a day (I had increased to 2 for a few days but then decreased back to 1). another side effect was his sleeping habits changed. He started to stay up in bed instead of going right to sleep at bedtime no matter what time of day we gave him the CLO. He still did that for awhile after we stopped CLO but now he seems back to normal.
We bought a couple of new GF snacks that Vic likes - KinniKinnick's KinniKritters (which are like animal crackers) and Enjoy Life's very berry snack bars. We found some corn spaghetti but we haven't tried it yet.
I finished reading the non recipe part of Special diets for Special Kids. I flipped through some recipes too. The Author suggests giving the diet 3 months & if it doesn't work then you can safely scrap it. We are still going to do GF only for 1 month before we introduce CF so I'm not sure if we will then do it for 3 more months or just 2. Of course if we see improvements then we will do it for life.
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I think its awesome that Victor is less stimmy. I read somewhere else that CLO made their child hyperactive. I wonder if there is a connection.
I think its a common side effect but not sure if its across the board for all CLO brands or not!
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