AS and problems with Milk and Bread???

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Some scientific studies showed that most people diagnosed with ASDs as well as many people with unexplained neurological symptoms have problems with milk and wheat. One test for wheat sensitivity is called anti-gliadin IgG. It is one of the old tests used to diagnose Celiac disease. Many with ASDs are positive for this test but almost always negative for Celiac disease which indicates an immune response to wheat that may cause neurological symptoms.

One likely cause for this problem is an overgrowth of yeast or bacteria in the GI tract that inhibits the enzymes that digest it. Probiotics should help if this is the problem.

I used to have problems with milk and wheat. After taking probiotics, I no longer have problems with these foods. I recommend trying probiotics. If they don't help, you will at least have improved your immune system.

I just finished off a peanut butter sandwich and a tall glass of skim milk before posting on this thread. Yeah, there can be problems, but either I don't have them, or I've managed to cope with 'em.

I'm glad there are alternate food products out there in case I do develop a reaction to that stuff.

I'm gluten intolerant.

Been of it a few years now.

What it did was damage my small intestines, so my body couldn't obsorb nutrients it needed. I was very sickly as a child and as a result it has made me a bit Autistic.
I have found since I have come off the diet and got healthier, I'm more aware of my surroundings and life is a bit more simpiler and easy, feels a bit strange.

I read there is a link between gluten and autism, that is what got me here.

I'd say the link is only for people that are intolerant to foods. If don't have any problem with gluten etc... I'd doubt it would help you.
No harm trying though..

In the land of milk and bread (with honey?)

I do not think all persons who have food/sensitivities or allergies are AS, though there may well be more AS people than NTs with food allergies/sensitivities. If there are symptoms, then the person should be tested in order to determine if there is a health risk.

I have no diet issues. Best of health to all.

I would like to see if any of the people on the GFCF diet would take an allergy medication, then go back to eating wheat, what would happen.

I have a sensitivity to yeast, I have never been tested, but the very wonderful light fluffy yeast rolls from my favorite restaurant make me dreadfully sick (they have honey drizzled on them oh they taste sooo good). The problem I have is that my diet consists mainly of dairy and wheat. I won't eat much else. I am a bread baby. I can't afford to buy substitute dairy and wheat products. So I just won't try the GFCF thingy.

I don't beleive that it can cure anyone. I beleive that it is like an allergy, it just ascerbates autism. The person on the diet is still autistic/aspergian. They just have one less thing acting as a trigger. and there is no true percentage of how many the GFCF diet would help. because there has never been an actual study done on whether or not it does help. standard answer here is that it would help 2 - 5 % of the autistic population.

oh and the lady on the phone sounds like an idiot

Some do, some don't. There are milk cultures, Europeans, and others, Native American, Chinese, where mother's milk is the last, for it does not exist in the culture.

As long as you drink milk, fine, stop and the ability to digest it vanishes. African cattle cultures can drink milk, but not the non cattle adults.

I have problems with wheat, but not rye and oats.

Cheerios are oats, and with goats milk yougurt, and fruit, fine.

Cow milk is another thing.

Thousands of years of adapting to a local diet, then this mix and mess.

If there is nothing else, and starting with small amounts, we do adapt, but don't drink milk for a few years, then drink a lot, you might just have problems.

It is about the same as engines, there are a lot of fuel choices, jets will burn anything, they are set for kerosene, but will burn gas, diesel, 151 rum, but performance changes, by products, and the fuel/air mixture has to change, often drasticly, or the engine melts, or clogs, or explodes.

We are self tuning, and on any one fuel adjust, but it takes time.

A bland and constant diet is best.

I used to drink milk a lot when I was a kid. Now, I don't. But I can handle butter/ice cream/yogurt/foods with cream/lattes just fine.

My mom grew up on a dairy farm, so she has always made sure I drink my fair share of milk. My family of five could often go through 3 or even 4 gallons of milk in a week- and that's considering that my two older sisters generally would not drink milk. If milk causes autism, well, that's preferable to osteoporosis. Bread is also a major staple in my diet. Along with chicken. Mmm... chicken.