Fewer Infections.

On a more positive note, Alex's infections have really reduced in frequency since we started him on the Equazen fish oils last October, along side his eczema. In fact his last infection was in December. He has not gone four months without an ear infection for years. We are sending him back to school and hope that this will not result in his health deteriorating when he comes into contact with all the bugs and viruses that can trigger off ear infections.

Allergic reaction to gluten and soya; day eighteen.

Alex is finally quiet at night again and although he is still shouting and yelling a bit during the day we are nearly back to where we were before he ate the offending food.Recovery from that one mistake has taken nearly three weeks. He has colour in his face again and the dark circles under his eyes are more or less gone.

Allergic reaction twelve days on.

So now it's twelve days after Alex ate the food he is allergic to. His dark circles under his eyes are much better and his ears are no longer red. He is not complaining of painful ears as much. His excema, which returned, still remains. His energy levels are improving.
Though he is no longer leaping around the place he is still a lot louder verbally than before. He still remains more excitable, insecure and prone to becoming upset over very little. Having said that, even this is getting better. It took weeks for the positive effects of going gluten free to show. I have a nasty feeling that his recovery from this mistake is going to take just as long.

Gluten, Casein and Soya free.

So after the allergy testing in march we started Alex on a diet free of soya ,gluten and dairy. He had already been dairy free for three years and we removed gluten six weeks before the allergy testing in march. When we removed gluten his sleeping and ability to settle to sleep improved. Bedtime had been terrible for the last two years. By bedtime he would be bouncing off the walls, loud and this would continue once put to bed. He would run and jump around his room very loudly until finally falling asleap at around one in the morning. To compensate for this he would not wake up until eleven or twelve the next day. Since removal of gluten he actually stays in the bed quietly until he falls asleap, now by eleven o clock at the latest. His concentration and focus improved, something that was observed by his home tutor.

After the testing we removed Soya. this further helped his concentration. He began spontaneously answering questions more than before. His focusing on schoolwork for his tutor further improved. He started doing things like spontaneously picking up my bag and giving it to me as we were getting out of the car one day. Stuff like this he would have not done before, basically because he had been too hyped up to notice things like that. I began to trust him to to stay in the car when i got out. The loud verbal rubbish reduced by 90 percent. Gone was the exessive leaping round the house and shouting and squealing out of nowhere I began to be able to take him out in public and it be more pleasant, less stressful experience for both of us. He stopped shouting every time his two year old sister cried. This was gradually imprroved through removal of each substance.
All has gone well until six days ago when we ended up in two social situations where, firstly he was accidentally given gluten, soya and dairy by someone else. Then i thought that as he had had it the previous day, it wouldnt hurt to give him a ginger bread man. We were at a theme park. I had said no to the burgers, hot dogs and felt so bad. Boy are we paying now. His behaviour actually worsened over the following days until it peaked yesterday, the fourth day. Today has been a better day . He is still getting angry, upset, crying jumping around, being vocally noisy all exessively. Though thos is an improvement on yesterday which i would class as uncontrollable. He has been pale, lethargic. The dark circles around his eyes are terrible.He is streaming from his nose, his ears are red. He is back to wanting loose trousers on and his ears hurt. That awful shout that he does at his sister when she cries is back, but again it peaked yesterday; today he has controlled himself much better. We have learned a hard lesson from this. His reaction was worse this time to coming off the foods in the first place. I'm just glad he seems to be recovering.