we are dairy free here as my boy was diagnosed at 6 months dairy intollerant - am working more recently on gluten free, its not too bad as the "free from" range seems to cover a lot and we also have a brilliant "allergy" shop in town that carries all sorts of great stuff, cheese spread ice cream snacks etc that are free from almost everything...

however I keep being told tomatos, bananas and pineapple can be a really bad trigger for SEN kids - has anyone else tried eliminating things that you woudnt think are bad from their diet or have you paid for full allergy testing to be done?

To be really gluten-free (which is a must for my son) takes a lot of dedication and some new cookware - a bit cross-contamination from an old cookie sheet made him quite sick.

But that wasn't SPD type problems. What I'm discovering lately is that he has taken a dislike to certain foods because of the texture - "Mom, I can't eat bananas because they're mushy and mushy makes me gag" is what I'm hearing from him. He won't eat oranges if he has to peel them himself, but if I peel them, he likes them - he doesn't want to get his hands messy or sticky peeling them.

So I see these foods now as triggers because they cause a reaction (fuss!) in him, but not because he's eating them and they are causing a reaction through being consumed.

One really odd thing we discovered that made him irritable was lavender shampoo.

(03-02-2012, 03:22 PM)owensmum Wrote: we are dairy free here as my boy was diagnosed at 6 months dairy intollerant - am working more recently on gluten free, its not too bad as the "free from" range seems to cover a lot and we also have a brilliant "allergy" shop in town that carries all sorts of great stuff, cheese spread ice cream snacks etc that are free from almost everything...

however I keep being told tomatos, bananas and pineapple can be a really bad trigger for SEN kids - has anyone else tried eliminating things that you woudnt think are bad from their diet or have you paid for full allergy testing to be done?

My son reacts behaviourally to any natural red foods. Its the salicylates in them that he is sensitive to. Is not an allergy, so allergy testing is no help. He reacts to too many tomatoes the same way he does to artificial food colours. Its not pretty.