Never say never or you'll eat your gluten filled words.....

So Jenny McCarthy has never been high on my friend list. I have not read her book, I do not tune in when she is on Oprah. I do think she is funny, and hey she is quite a looker....but when she started telling everyone her son was "cured" of his autism now that he doesn't eat gluten I decided she had lost her mind. I have never gone over to that camp. Never believed that what went into my son's mouth would cause his behavior to change, or his mood to alter. That being said I must tell you I am a huge hypocrite. I medicate my son. I strongly believe in the pharmaceuticals wonders that I give him each and every day. So again I refer you back to an older post where I stated I am not up for mother of the year. This picture of my son, shopping naked in my pots and pan cabinet is to show the large hives he had all over his body after his dear mommy gave him Lima beans. Knowing full well he was allergic to peanuts, but not knowing the Lima bean and the peanut are actually quite related. Live/learn/nearly kill your kid....
So this was just after one of many allergy panels my son had and well before we knew that he was somewhere on the spectrum. At this point he was only suffering from horrendous allergies. His skin looked like a burn victim and his nose was in a perpetual state of boogerdom.  What we though was reflux was actually his poor belly rejecting all the soy based formula I was giving him....because guess what soy is like? Peanuts! Right! All in the family called Legumes.....so we learned a lot and started to give him whole milk and things slowly got better, then would get worse again as he would develop new allergies to the new things we would give him. Now at age 9 my son is allergic to just about all grains, including rice, (seriously) and milk.
We continued to give him these things.
I am going to just let that sink in.
We got the blood tests back, the doctor told us the things he was allergic to and we said...."well what else is he going to eat?"
and....We continued to give him these things.
I am going to go open the door so that Child Protective Services can come and take me away......
So now he is sick. He is loosing weight. He has headaches almost everyday, he is throwing up and he is yelling at the kids in his class because he just can't handle the noise.
Our new pediatrician suggested the GFCF diet. This means no gluten, no casein no dairy. My son is pretty sure we are going to feed him pellets. I assured him we wouldn't. He is allergic to pellets.
So we will do this diet, and see if it works. The whole family is going to change the way we eat, not just our son. Who knows maybe my daughter will stop being so weird. Perhaps my ADD will get better....maybe just maybe I will have to write Jenny McCarthy a letter of apology....