Mary Poppins Medicine
Hi All,
I've had my son on a special diet (under the guidance of a dietician at the hospital) which consists of specialist soya milk as his diet is so poor. Unfortunately, he detects the most minute changes in taste and it has taken great time and patience in slowly reducing the amount of normal soya milk, to this special concoction which aims to replace all he loses through only eating quavers, rich tea bics and toast.
This works reasonably well most of the time but when we have the odd infection and antibiotics need to be given, that's when we need the Mary Poppins spoon which tailors the taste to the recipient - in my son's case, quaverichteatoastie flavour. Medicine is definitely looming as he has been "loose" the last few days so I am artfully leaving the medicine spoon around in the hope of planting the seed - wish me luck!
I do have a bit of a "Show and Tell" (only tell in this case) though this week as one of my son's special teachers said he had taught her something. A favourite toy/reinforcer is the ball run and the teacher had to do a ten minute talk for all the other teachers on this specific toy and she said my son has taught her so much from it just being a ball run - things like a balancer and breaking the toy down into component parts to make different toys etc....... that kept me going all week that did:-)
I also have a big interview this week with the statementing panel, will let you know what happens - I am ready for a good old fashioned haggle and barter session!
Best regards
DIL
I've had my son on a special diet (under the guidance of a dietician at the hospital) which consists of specialist soya milk as his diet is so poor. Unfortunately, he detects the most minute changes in taste and it has taken great time and patience in slowly reducing the amount of normal soya milk, to this special concoction which aims to replace all he loses through only eating quavers, rich tea bics and toast.
This works reasonably well most of the time but when we have the odd infection and antibiotics need to be given, that's when we need the Mary Poppins spoon which tailors the taste to the recipient - in my son's case, quaverichteatoastie flavour. Medicine is definitely looming as he has been "loose" the last few days so I am artfully leaving the medicine spoon around in the hope of planting the seed - wish me luck!
I do have a bit of a "Show and Tell" (only tell in this case) though this week as one of my son's special teachers said he had taught her something. A favourite toy/reinforcer is the ball run and the teacher had to do a ten minute talk for all the other teachers on this specific toy and she said my son has taught her so much from it just being a ball run - things like a balancer and breaking the toy down into component parts to make different toys etc....... that kept me going all week that did:-)
I also have a big interview this week with the statementing panel, will let you know what happens - I am ready for a good old fashioned haggle and barter session!
Best regards
DIL
posted by Parent at
6:50 PM
2 Comments:
Hi,
He is only limiting his diet to quavers and toast because he is addicted to the gluten.
http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/
The university of Sunderland, Autism Research Unit (see link above) has very interesting articles and research on the effect of diet on autism.
My sister (who has Aspergers) grew up drinking milk and eating gluten. Over the past (i think) 5 years she has taken these out of her diet. She feels so much better, she describes it as 'clearer' in her head. She remembers being 'foggy' in her head from eating the 'wrong' food. She would bang her head repeatdly and now describes it as feeling 'out of it'
Also if you find your child has difficulty walking in a straight line or learning to play on a swing or catching a ball. Then I really recommend getting coloured tinted glasses. The boy on the BBC programme had some. My sister has a pair with a yellow tint (they have to be prescribed by a specialist optician) she can now
1) walk in a straight line
2) catch stuff
3) everything looks straight and normal without having her head on one side
4) she can see depth and perspective - previously everything was flat.
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Anonymous, at 1:15 PM
Hi I have enjoyed reading all your articles but had to comment on this one.
To anon all kids NT or ASD are different and though being addicted to gluten could be investigated it could be a sensory issue regarding food. It is common to find diet problems in children with ASD but they are not always gluten related. I've described on my blog the limited food items my son ,7yo ASD, will eat but I also witness his absolute hatred of being near anyone else eating foods he will not eat, so thats practically everything, to his senses everything smells like 'lime' , why lime I've no idea thats quite a new description, he used to say he didn't know why he just hated it and will not sit near anyone eating. He is also phobic about trying new foods and I have mistakenly tried to 'trick' him into new foods only to have them vomited up. He will lick foods now which is a step forward and I've been told by professionals he hopefully will grow out of it in his teen years.
It's very upsetting dealing with a child who won't eat especially as a mother as it's our natural instinct to nurture our child. So you have my deepest empathy. I look forward to more articles. thanks for all your hard work towards helping our schools hopefully the whole UK will benefit in the end.
Lorraine
ps.I retain the right to be talking absolute codswallop though as I'm no expert either, just a mum :)
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Bramblebrae, at 3:42 AM
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