Hi All again. Thank-you for all your kind words and welcome.

Everyone has been busy. I have had 2 very sick children to deal with in the meanwhile.

Can I ask has anyone put their child on a gluten free diet. With Oscar we have put him on it for almost 2 years now. I can swear by it the first couple days we cut it out his behaviour was completely different. He stopped bouncing off the walls, being annoying in the shopping centre and he actually started listening and even talking more. Eye contact improved also. Apparently for some ASD children its like giving them steroids it makes them uncontrollable. His diet was also supplemented with vitamins containing A ... which improves behaviour immensely. Fish oil has helped his concentration immensely. The transformation was amazing and he has been developing ever since.

This diet change was a very hard thing to do. He was a compulsive 'gager' and everything had to be plain and very smooth. 2 years on with persistence he has changed to the point that he eats soups (which he would gag and vomit up initially and scream his heart out saying no to) and even saucy things ... spag bog he loves. He even eats capsicum and broccoli.

MBP - I know exactly how it is. Oscar hated hair cuts too ... I swear he would scream to the point that he would go blue in the face and vomit ... It was emotionally traumatic for me holding him and his dad trying to cut his hair. But now he actually wants hair cuts and looks forward to it. He even says 'mummy my hair is growing to grow back' and 'I look very smart now'. What caused this. We changed the hair clippers to one that has multi-coloured combs. It became a little game 'which one should we cut your hair with ... which one do you want to hold?'. It also emits a lower level of noise. It has made hair cuts a wonderful experience. Anything to make it fun does the trick I guess. He loved washing his hair away and waving to it.


All the best!

Nicky C