Long before I knew that my son had Asperger Syndrome, I read a book called "Is This Your Child" by a Dr. Doris Rapp. She described how, in some children, proteins of certain foods pass through the intestinal wall and can cause behavior or neurological difficulties. This made perfect sense to me because my son had bleeding in his bowel movements as a baby that no paediatrican could explain. Since my son was 4 at the time that I read this book and hadn't really gotten into the "picky eating" stage, I decided to try some of her suggestions. I had my son tested for food allergies, cut out every single item that he was allergic to for six months and didn't see one speck of change in behavior.
After that, I tried a Naturopath who tested my son for allergies and since he came up with a new bunch of food items, I cut those out as well. As a matter of fact, my son used to get green bean cookies instead of chocolate chip cookies and he liked them! Six months of that diet didn't produce any changes either. Organic foods didn't make a difference. I spent many months stuffing my son with various vitamins, cod liver oil, herbal remedies, you name it.
Then I tried the four day rotation diet - this is where you cut out all wheat products and one day is based on rice, then corn, then oat, then rye. No change there either. I consulted a different Naturopath who suggested that my son lacked amino acids due to all the antibiotics that he had received for various infections in the first 5 years. I noticed a slight change, he seemed a little happier but nothing else really changed. However, after 3 years of me playing around with his diet, he seemed to become a very "picky eater". Actually, more of a rigid eater. He will only eat certain things now and he certainly will never eat a meal where anything is mixed together, like stew. (I bet he thinks I am hiding something "healthful" in it).
However, there are many parents of children with Asperger Syndrome or Autism who report great changes in their children when they cut out grain and milk products. The diet that they follow is called the GFCF diet. Other parents report that their children do well on a certain vitamin supplement, or an increase in the amount of vitamin B-6. I have provided some links below for anyone interested in these topics.
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