Bowels and Diet

Many autistic children have abnormal bowel function. This may vary from constipation to diarrhoea.

CAUSES:

• Poor diet,
• Poor gastric motility,
• Overgrowth of pathogenic [harmful] bacteria, candida species or assorted parasites,
• Inability to break down some dietary proteins

In most autistic children regulation of bowel habit brings clinical improvement and probably the most effective way of doing this is by introducing a gluten free casein free diet.

In a survey of parents of 24,578 autistic children, 63% made clear clinical improvement following withdrawal of gluten and casein.