A La Aspie

Ethan has not been dx with anything. If I had to guess, I’d put him on the PDD scale with maybe ADHD to boot. He is a fairly normal kid function-wise but has rough spots when it comes to maintaining mood and energy at a steady level and to social stuff. Rough spots being on a scale from 1-10, their roughness is about a 6 with bad days being about an 8 and good days being about a 4. The social issues are not to the extreme that mine are although I could see them worsening a bit as he gets older - similar to me.

Aside from putting together a consistent routine at home, I have made his diet consistent as well. In the two weeks that I implemented these items, I have seen a complete turn around in his behavior at school.

The folowing are things that both he and I do. (I take some additional suppliements and make a few more grown up diet modifications)

About an hour after he wakes up, he has an EAS Soy Protien shake - he LOVES the taste. We mix it with soy milk rather than water which adds a little bit of nutritional value, fills him up a little better and makes the shake a little thicker and foamy which it a nice texture for it.

Along with that, he also takes the following :

Cod Liver Oil - peach flavored capsules. They were tough for him to swallow till he got the hang of it. When teaching them how to swallow this stuff, try water or a bit of bread to help trick their throat into allowing it down. He tells me that he has to point the skinny end towards his throat in his mouth. Some kids don’t have any trouble at all.

Centrum Kids vitamins - has the highest B6, B12 and magnesium of any regular kids vitamin - aside from having a better vitamin content than the others over all.

When he gets to his day care, before school (a couple hours later), he is allowed to have a bowl of non-sweet cereal with soy/lactaid and some fruit.

He eats school lunches and substitutes juice for milk.

He has an afternoon snack after lunch before school lets out. He is allowed to take one of the following :

Kashi Crunch - it comes naturally stuck together in little bite size chunks. It’s slightly sweet but has a great protien count and low sugar.
Honey Roasted Penuts - A little on the sweet side but still has very high protien
Penut Butter Crackers - again, a little higher carb count but enough protien to balance it out

When he gets to day care, he has another snack before coming home and he is allowed anything that is not sweet - or fruit.

For dinner, he fills up on good, healthy food.

Also may have been crossposted to my Asperger's Syndrome blog on Trusera.com, a site where people show health related stories. Check it out!