Konstantin Monastyrsky: Greetings my name is Konstantin Monastyrsky. I'm an expert in Forensic Nutrition and the author of Gut Sense. How to Reverse and Prevent Constipation and Irregularity in children and adults.
People often ask me this question Mr. Monastyrsky, what is the connection between Infant Constipation, Diarrhea and Autism. Quite obvious if you ask me. It usually starts from a simple bout with Diarrhea so common among infants and toddlers. After Diarrhea strikes, pediatricians incorrectly recommend giving them solid food as in just telling example from the website of a major university children's hospital.
Keep giving your child table foods while he has diarrhea, examples of such food are dried cereals, grains, bread, crackers, rice, noodles, mashed potatoes, carrots, applesauce and bananas.
As likely habit most children instinctively refuse food during the acute stages of diarrhea. However if you force them to eat, what's recommended by the doctors, the Diarrhea usually gets worse. That is because applesauce and bananas are both Lactogenic food. Laxative effect comes from Pectin and Sorbitol two nutrients are well known for their prominent Diarrheal effect.
Also, since most wheat product such as cereals, breads, crackers, and noodles specially from wholewheat contain fiber, its fermentation inside, so baby's large intestine causes a gas bloating and abdominal cramps, all along dissertation is made even a worse big gluten, hypoallergenic wheat protein because gluten commonly causes acute intestinal inflammation.
The nauseas becomes unbearable and life threatening. Doctors prescribe antibiotics to wipe out intestinal bacteria and stabilize the child. As it start to stop the diarrheal inflammation for a while, but causes Constipation because there are no any bacteria left to form normal stool and despite, pediatricians routine recommend adding fiber to fix constipation as this telling example from the Mayo Clinic website.
For infants older than 4 months who are already eating solid foods, give them baby food that is high in fiber. As this noble treatment has been applied for the vengeance over the last 20 or so years primarily in the Unites States and the rest of the developed world dietary fiber always a worth and still is big No, No in Pediatric nutrition.
Since tiny infant and toddlers can purchase gluten and dietary fiber as efficiently as a full grown adult. They quickly run into perfused diarrhea again and the sufficient cycle starts in you, causing even more sever intestinal inflammation requiring even more antibiotics consequently even more fiber to relief Constipation.
All along because of sever intestinal inflammation, this child can't resume a normal diet and quickly becomes malnourished making the treatment, feeding and recovery even more challenging because infants and toddlers have a very limited store of essential nutrients inside their tiny bodies, malnutrition may happen literally in days not weeks or months as with adults, because inflowing deficiency of flat iron essential fatty acids and primary proteins quickly result in some or all symptoms of the Autism Spectrum Disorder.
To learn more about the connections between the treatment of bowel disorders and Autism and what you can do to prevent this travesty from happening to a child, please visit this page. Good luck.
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