Falling Behind In School/ Glutened

[laurabelle]

HI I am trying to figure out what to do. My son has celiac disease. He is 14, very intelligent, large for his age and determined to play in the NFL. We finally diagnosed about 1 year ago after 12 years of suffering. When my son is gluten free for long periods of time he is generally a good kid. He has his issues like all teens, but is life is able to go on. My problem is this: my son will occasionally get glutened, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident. He quickly becomes very rude and extremely defiant and completely useless as far as school and chores or to be trusted alone in a room. His mood generally starts to improve after a few days and the ability to think returns in about a week. Unfortunately, once he has had gluten it seems to act like an addictive drug and he has a very hard time resisting it so 1 week becomes 2 or 3. We homeschool so I am prepared and able to be flexible with him but lately things have been very bad and now he is about 3 weeks behind in school. How do I handle his swearing, defiance and falling so far behind? Punishing him just seems to make things much worse, even natural consequences send him off the deep end. It is like he is high on drugs. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Our pediatrician isn't any help and we live in the Adirondacks so we don't have access to very much medically or to counseling.

[irish daveyboy]

HI I am trying to figure out what to do. My son has celiac disease. He is 14, very intelligent, large for his age and determined to play in the NFL. We finally diagnosed about 1 year ago after 12 years of suffering. When my son is gluten free for long periods of time he is generally a good kid. He has his issues like all teens, but is life is able to go on. My problem is this: my son will occasionally get glutened, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident. He quickly becomes very rude and extremely defiant and completely useless as far as school and chores or to be trusted alone in a room. His mood generally starts to improve after a few days and the ability to think returns in about a week. Unfortunately, once he has had gluten it seems to act like an addictive drug and he has a very hard time resisting it so 1 week becomes 2 or 3. We homeschool so I am prepared and able to be flexible with him but lately things have been very bad and now he is about 3 weeks behind in school. How do I handle his swearing, defiance and falling so far behind? Punishing him just seems to make things much worse, even natural consequences send him off the deep end. It is like he is high on drugs. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Our pediatrician isn't any help and we live in the Adirondacks so we don't have access to very much medically or to counseling.

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Hi laurabelle,

Here's a few items that may help to explain what's happening with your son!

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The First is a PDF File that opens with Acrobat Reader.

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Dr Charles Parker's Celiac Notes.

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Opiate withdrawal from discontinuing gluten and casein?

Cautionary note: sounds absurd until you see it.

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You might want to warn gluten sensitive, celiac and casein sensitive patients about this

odd and painful clinical phenomenon:

Withdrawal after stopping wheat or milk products can be painful, exhausting, and depressing,

with weakness, anger, and brain fog.

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The peptides from gluten (gliadorphin) and casein (casomorphin) are important because

the react with opiate receptors in the brain, thus mimicking the effects of opiate drugs like heroin and morphine.

These compounds have been shown to react with areas of the brain such as the temporal lobes,

which are involved in speech and auditory integration.

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The Coeliac Disease of Mental Illness

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Although often referred to as "wheat allergy," Coeliac Disease is not an "allergy"

but rather an intolerance to the protein in gluten, a substance found in wheat and other grains.

For susceptible people, gluten injures the small intestinal lining (called