Does Combined Gluten-Free and Casein-Free Diet Improve Behavior in Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder?

I'm autistic and have been Gluten-free Casein-free by necessity.  I have celiac disease and lactose intolerance.  Too much cheese is bad for my cholesterol.  Guess what!  Going off milk and gluten had absolutely no effect on my neurology.  The Gluten-free Casein-free diet is really an example of the pseudoscientific "cures" to which we're subjected for something that is not a disease and a relatively innocuous one at that.  The one digestive risk that is well-established is Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth, which I may have.  SIBO can result in painful symptoms which can manifest as symptoms of autism.  Treating SIBO appears to alleviate autism, but it what is doing is relieving pain, a good in itself.

My thought on this is that kids whose behavioral symptoms are improved by a gluten-free/cf diet are not actually on the autism spectrum. Instead, they have issues that look superficially like the spectrum, but are really caused by food intolerance related inflammation. My daughter, for example, improved dramatically on a gluten-free/cf diet, but it turned out she had Lyme disease and several Lyme co-infections. The inflammation caused by the combined problems put her over the top. She had constant emotional breakdowns, oppositional defiant disorder, insomnia and aggressive rage. The diet reduced symptoms by half and treating theLyme&co did the rest. 

hmm interesting having done a  trawl through the research.  From what I have found.  In probably a number of children diagnosed with autism/adhd there is casein sensitiviy/allergy. I think that this might be due to casomorphins, acting like opiate drugs. So effectively to people who are sensitive to opiates they will experience all the side effects of taking an opiate and also become addicted to the "opiate". So effectively you have a" drugged " up child. This picture might be  confused with. Both my children have problems with Casein,  the youngest diagnosed at 3 months is extremely allergic, he has had to have strict elimination of all dairy in his diet. We as a family had very little milk intake until he left for university,  following his departure-we started to eat more dairy products. My daughter changed almost overnight, she started having severe mood swings, being rude and cheeky to adults, and in terms of behaviour regressed to about 6 years old. She is 12, she fell out with all her friends and was very argumentative. She then started to deteriorate physically- developing severe abdominal pains,  cramps,  and this woul not respond to paracetamol orv irritable bowel symptoms.  She also developed insomnia.  My husband has autistic traits, so I began to think that my daughter might be similar. I was researching around the internet about autism,  and found anecdotal reports that some childrens behaviour much improved with a dairy and gluten  free diet. This made me make the link wandering wether she might have a milder form of allergy to casein.  So after 2 or 3 days of dairy elimination we noticed a huge improvement of behavioural and bowel symptoms. 4 th day not so good irritable and bloated abdomen,  with mood swings and paranoia. We discovered she had eaten some milk chocolate.  She recognised that milk was a problem,  and is sticking to the diet. We will see how things progress.