Sept 09
We have been doing the biomedical and diet intervention for three months. In this time we have seen significant changes.
When we went to Gina we were very desperate as our son was very unwell (severely constipated) and had restricted his diet to milk, toast, fruit breakfast bars, and bananas. He was waking continuously throughout the night; he was upset grumpy and unsettled a lot of the time. He would have tantrums throughout the day and was very difficult for us to manage.
Gina advised us to start by changing both our children to a gluten and casein free diet. Our son was very addicted to milk and we knew this would be a challenge but through guidance from Gina we gradually weaned him off milk and onto beef and chicken broth. The only things he would eat was gluten free chocolate muffins with chicken and veges hidden in them and honey. This carried on for about four weeks before he would eat anything else. After three months of starting the diet he is now eating meat and vegetables amongst other foods, he is nearly fully on the GAPS diet which is great.
We have seen great changes in the last three months, he is now sleeping through the night, he has excellent eye contact, we now get spontaneous hugs and he is talking a lot more. His teachers at daycare say they have noticed dramatic changes. He now asks to go to “playschool” and when we get there he looks for his friend and runs off to play. Before we started the diet he would get so upset and scream and cry when we arrived at daycare. It would sometimes take half an hour for me to leave it would take that long to calm him down. He is generally more alert and aware of his surroundings and people. Three months ago he would scream if we didn’t turn on the same nursery rhyme CD in the car, now he is happy to listen to different music on the radio.
These are some of the many changes that we have seen in our 2 year old after three months of changing to the gluten/casein and grain free diet and using biomedical supplements. We have achieved all this through the guidance and support of Gina, it has been a tough three months but it has definitely been worth it.