What is the Gluten Free Casein Free Diet for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The Gluten Free, Casein (dairy) Free Diet for children with Autism spectrum disorder is one of the more popular choices by parents to use as therapy. Due to its availability of changing a diet and low risk of any kind of “side effects” since it does not involve medication. The diet is challenging in the beginning because of the prevalence of gluten and diary in many prepared foods, and the grocery budget will have to be expanded because to eat well always costs more. But what is Gluten and Casein? Why would this diet work and why would it not work? What is a Gluten free diet? Gluten is a by-product of wheat it exists in barley, malt, whole wheat, white flour / all purpose flour, kamut, spelt rye and is also used as an additive to make recipes thicker and chewier. Gluten is the enemy to Celiac diease sufferers. Gluten is what gives a bagel its texture and often is used in baking to hold items together as opposed to other products due to its affordability and availability. Acceptable non
