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[quote=Anonymous]Question for those of you with gluten-free experience or knowledge:

I have been trying a gluten-free diet with my kids since the beginning of this summer. One child has ADHD, the other ADHD and GAD. I really don't think it is making a difference. For what it is worth, my kids already have a pretty good clean diet. They eat veggies, fruit, protein, mostly organic, etc. The one with ADHD and GAD is already dairy-free due to very bad gastro issues, which have been pretty much resolved at this point. I figured I might as well try GF to see if it could help. My child's anxiety tends to go down in the summer when we are out of school and it has, though I would say less so than in previous summers. His inattentiveness, though, seems worse than ever. My other son seems exactly the same as always.

We are about to go on a week vacation with extended family when it will be extremely hard to keep up the diet. My family are big snackers and have junk food around all the time. The only way for me to enforce the GF diet would be to watch my kids like a hawk which would a) make them feel very excluded/punished (which one can handle relatively speaking but the one with GAD already has a hard enough time on vacations as it is) and b) very likely make them turn against the GF endeavor altogether and create a compliance issue I have never had before.

So my question is: is it worth doing as much as I can but letting them cheat?? I ask this question for the vacation and also for when they go back to school. Is it at all valuable to go partially gluten-free? Or should I say, I gave it to months, it is time to give up. I wanted to make the point that it doesn't seem to be helping but also allow for someone more knowledgeable to say that they might still be better off without gluten. Any advice??? Thank you![/quote]

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