We had a chat with one of Sue's friends over the weekend who suggested we start Emily on a wheat-free diet. Apparently there's quite a bit of research about wheat intolerance and autism and the correlation between the two.
It's not to say that if you have wheat in your diet you'll become autistic - I didn't and Sue didn't. It suggests that if there is a possibility of autism, taking wheat out can help tip the balance.
At this point, we're eager to try anything to give Em a chance. It's all rye bread and oat cakes from here on in, I guess.
we can easily live without wheat based foods.
ReplyDeleteIt's been really difficult - both physically finding the goods and financially - trying to go wheat-free. There's the obvious things to replace - pasta, bread, etc. but then you realise innocuous things like soup or random sauces also feature wheat.
ReplyDeleteI think at this point we've given up the experiment.