Dietary restriction brings positive results

DEAR DR. GOTT: I read with interest the column that was recently posted about food issues with kids with autism.

My son is 17 and has severe autism. For many, many years, he suffered terribly with failure-to-thrive issues because of his aversion and bizarre sensory issues to many things, including food. He would go on what we called starvation diets; for days, he would eat absolutely nothing. I can remember giving him just about anything just so that I could get him to eat something.

When he was 14, out of complete desperation, we placed him on a restrictive diet. We removed gluten, casein, corn, soy, all sugars and dyes. [Read more...]