Eliminating Corn from Diet of Autistic Son Did Show Benefit
Recently we had stopped the corn elimination diet for our son with autism. After five months of removing all corn products we decided that we had not noticed a difference. With that observation we slowly began reintroducing corn back into his diet. That decision turned out to be a very poor decision on our part.
With many other autism treatments we had often seen a change in our autistic son within a couple of weeks. That was not the case with the corn elimination diet. We had not observed any benefit at all so we thought it wouldn’t be a problem letting him eat corn again. It didn’t take long to realize that he actually was receiving a benefit from the corn elimination diet.
Autistic Son’s Stools Worsened with Corn Back in Diet
Our autistic son’s stools began to worsen very quickly after reintroducing corn. The stools slowly began to soften. They also began to smell more and more like yeast overgrowth was occurring. After about a week and a half we realized that there was a definite correlation between these changes and the reintroduction of corn. We quickly changed our minds on the corn issue and withdrew the food once again.
Stools Improved After Removing Corn Again
Within three or four days of removing corn our autistic son’s stools began improving once again. They became more formed and began smelling less and less like yeast overgrowth. The stools continued improving for several more days after once again starting the corn elimination diet.
Interestingly, these improvements in the stools continued until he received his first dose of glutathione. The glutathione treatment did cause his stools to loosen once again, but they now appear to be normalizing.
This experience with corn helped us figure out that our son with autism was gaining a benefit from the corn elimination diet. Although he enjoyed eating nacho chips and taquitos once again, we quickly realized that his stools were becoming worse and worse. The last thing we wanted to cause was another huge issue with yeast overgrowth.
These changes came as a big surprise to us. We were quite certain that putting corn back in the diet of our autistic son would not result in any side effects and that we would be adding at least two more foods into his diet. Unfortunately, our son with autism will have to wait once again while we hunt down more foods that are compatible with his diet and that he will eat.
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Lookin’ good! The new blog (not the corn). Although the corn looks pretty good too.
The blog is getting there! It’s taking a good chunk of time though!
My son with autism has similar reactions to corn when I allow him to have it in his diet. His allergies also get much worse. Maybe corn is just not good for these kids.
We have noticed that our son with autism no longer has issues with corn now that we have stopped the GFCF diet. It’s interesting that the issues with corn went away when he had a greater selection of food choices. It might be possible that we were just giving him too many corn products in relation to his other food items while he was on such a restricted diet.
With more food choices he now eats corn chips about twice a week instead of every day. This was the goal while we were on the GFCF diet, but with so many food items restricted and our son being such a picky eater it was difficult at times not to feed him corn chips just to ensure that he was getting enough calories.