Yes. My seven-year-old daughter has celiac, and whenever she accidentally ingests any amount of gluten, say, from someone giving her something at school, she gets an immediate migraine, she throws up, her stomach hurts, and the following day (although sometimes the same day), her personality changes and she becomes, well, psychotic. She also breaks out in eczema. She threatens to kill me and everybody else in the house; sometimes she threatens to kill herself; she screams, she lashes out, she gets physical, kicking, biting, hitting and flailing. This is not her "normal" personality. I even had to restrain her from going after her baby sister for picking a flower. She turns into a person I don't recognize. It's horrible and it happens like clockwork. That's how I know if she's eaten anything she shouldn't have while not under my watchful eye. If she hasn't had gluten, she's a wonderful, loving child with no anger. If I didn't know about celiac and gluten, I would have taken her to a psychiatrist who more-than-likely would have prescribed meds.
My son who's five, has not been diagnosed, but because his sister was on a gluten-free diet, he was pretty much on one too. In two months he went from being a completely hyper, out-of-control little boy who could never sit still or stay with me, to a calm, studious, caring little boy. He went from throwing furniture and hurling dinosaurs across the room in preschool to the model student. His teachers said they'd never seen a change like that in such a short amount of time. To test this, I made him "normal" banana muffins. He ate four and I found him about fifteen minutes later, completely naked, jumping up and down on the couch, flailing his head around in circles and he couldn't hear me. He did this for 45 minutes. It took him 3 days to return to normal. He seemed autistic to me. Anyone would have thought so right then. He's been gluten-free ever since.
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Yes. My seven-year-old daughter has celiac, and whenever she accidentally ingests any amount of gluten, say, from someone giving her something at school, she gets an immediate migraine, she throws up, her stomach hurts, and the following day (although sometimes the same day), her personality changes and she becomes, well, psychotic. She also breaks out in eczema. She threatens to kill me and everybody else in the house; sometimes she threatens to kill herself; she screams, she lashes out, she gets physical, kicking, biting, hitting and flailing. This is not her "normal" personality. I even had to restrain her from going after her baby sister for picking a flower. She turns into a person I don't recognize. It's horrible and it happens like clockwork. That's how I know if she's eaten anything she shouldn't have while not under my watchful eye. If she hasn't had gluten, she's a wonderful, loving child with no anger. If I didn't know about celiac and gluten, I would have taken her to a psychiatrist who more-than-likely would have prescribed meds.
My son who's five, has not been diagnosed, but because his sister was on a gluten-free diet, he was pretty much on one too. In two months he went from being a completely hyper, out-of-control little boy who could never sit still or stay with me, to a calm, studious, caring little boy. He went from throwing furniture and hurling dinosaurs across the room in preschool to the model student. His teachers said they'd never seen a change like that in such a short amount of time. To test this, I made him "normal" banana muffins. He ate four and I found him about fifteen minutes later, completely naked, jumping up and down on the couch, flailing his head around in circles and he couldn't hear me. He did this for 45 minutes. It took him 3 days to return to normal. He seemed autistic to me. Anyone would have thought so right then. He's been gluten-free ever since.