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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d try a GAPS diet for 6-12 months first.[/quote]

hahahah yes, that's a perfect solution for a parent struggling with a kid who has been through 3 preschools in the last year. Just try a diet approach not based in science that takes 6 months to see non scientific results. [/quote]

I see results of candy, MSG, and dairy right away.  Takes 6 minutes, not 6 months.  Dairy is just allergy/respiratory though. [/quote]

Kids don’t get thrown out of three preschools because they’re eating candy. [/quote]

I was a camp counselor for multiple summers and the kids who drank coke and ate zebra bars and other crap often had the worst behavior. That stuff impacts little bodies just like it impacts big bodies, but it's way worse for a small bodies. It's very disregulating. [/quote]

Just stop. Unless there is a serious allergy/celiac causing pain, diet does not create the serious challenges that OP’s child has. [/quote]\

Also... correlation /=/ causation.  ADHD kids have impulse control issues.  Are the kids eating candy bars *because* they have adhd (ie have less impulse control than other kids, so aren't attentive to what they eat, follow their parents' or other social expectations about what they eat, and gorge on candy. And adhd is genetic, so parents/households are often also struggling with impulse and organization ssues, so possible the adhd kid is growing up in a house where eating candy is normalized)?  Or do they have adhd because they eat candy?  A lot of scientific research indicates the latter concept is bunk.

Also agree that any anecdotal evidence is like "my kid was pep pep pep for a few hours after eating candy". Not "my kid was violent towards other children, missing developmental milestones and having 3 hour daily meltdowns at preschool every day".  [/quote]

There’s plenty of evidence that food dyes cause behavioral issues as well as gut issues (going back decades!). There’s also plenty of evidence that the more processed food you eat, the less healthy you will be. I’m not sure why people DON’T think these effects can extend to the brain. And other countries already ban a lot of the dyes in particular.

If my kid had behavioral issues I would remove dyes from diet and minimize processed food in addition to listening to doctors and doing meds if necessary. Not sure why everyone reflexively responds like it has to be either/or. Both make sense. I would want to remove food triggers to the extent possible if they are exacerbating the problem, meds or no meds.

But, I also don’t think there is any way to say this is what is specifically impacting this particular kid and I wish op the best in trying to help them. No, I don’t like meds but I don’t think you can just watch your kid suffer and do nothing either. [/quote]

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