Gluten-free diet autism must follow a regime free of gluten and casein foods, and who show intolerance to these proteins. Gluten occurs in grains such as wheat, oats, barley, rye and their derivatives and casein in milk and food from it.
When an autistic child is diagnosed with the disease, both the gluten and casein, should not be eliminated dramatically, to not display anything like the withdrawal syndrome.
Since it appears that casein has a greater influence is the first to eliminate and from the sixth week of gluten.
The diet of a celiac autism should be based on:
- Fruits and vegetables or cooked, they provide vitamins and minerals
- Cereals suitable for celiacs gluten such as rice, corn, quinoa, amaranth, tapioca, or buckwheat, which provide protein and carbohydrates.
- Vegetables, for their contribution of carbohydrates, one must say that by failing to take dairy products, may have a vitamin deficiency that must supply by providing a cereal + a legume (eg beans with rice, preferably whole grain, vitamin that is) to get a complete protein.
- Milk can be substituted for the almond or soy, the latter provides many vitamins.
- The Autistic celiac can eat sugar, honey, jams and jellies, preferably homemade.
- The nuts and seed oils and olive oil provide essential fatty acids.
- Consuming nitrate-free meats, poultry and fish, the latter preferably blue, for its contribution of fatty acids.
- Take particular care to sausages, are harmful to autistic children for possible celiac gluten content.
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