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Any suggestions for ODD - diet, medications, or transitioning from biodad's to home?
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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 293407" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>Most of us here think that ODD is a symptom of an underlying problem and if you can address that problem, the ODD will improve. My daughter was diagnosis'ed with depression and ODD. Her problem turned out to be gluten and dairy intolerance.</p><p> </p><p>The best way to figure this out is to eliminate suspect foods for a while, see if the behaviour improves, then reintroduce and see what happens. Unfortunately, this will be almost impossible if biodad is not part of the plan and your difficult child goes there regularly. Even a tiny amount can cause the behaviour to reappear, so if he has any of the forbidden food, you might not see any change. </p><p> </p><p>I am on a gluten free diet and I can feel the difference in myself for 3 weeks sometimes if I get a trace of gluten. I don't think it lasts that long in my daughter, but I can't be sure how often she actually cheats on her diet. She does still have some very extreme behaviour when she does cheat.</p><p> </p><p>When she cheats and is back to her ODD ways, we just try to stay out of her way. We don't insist that she do chores but she does get a consequence for not doing them. She has to spend more time in her room and she frequently loses her cell phone and TV privileges. I try to make it as unpleasant for her as I can so she will be motivated to stay on her diet, but at the same time, I don't push her. This works for us, because it is a temporary thing but it wouldn't feel right if she was this way all the time.</p><p> </p><p>The only luck I have had controlling ODD is with a diet change. If you are interested in trying a diet, you could try to send his food with him when he goes to his dad's. I still have to do that sometimes when my daughter goes some place else. She started this diet when she was 10. I told her she could eat whatever she wanted in the beginning, as long as it didn't have gluten, just so she wouldn't cheat and I could see if it would work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 293407, member: 1792"] Most of us here think that ODD is a symptom of an underlying problem and if you can address that problem, the ODD will improve. My daughter was diagnosis'ed with depression and ODD. Her problem turned out to be gluten and dairy intolerance. The best way to figure this out is to eliminate suspect foods for a while, see if the behaviour improves, then reintroduce and see what happens. Unfortunately, this will be almost impossible if biodad is not part of the plan and your difficult child goes there regularly. Even a tiny amount can cause the behaviour to reappear, so if he has any of the forbidden food, you might not see any change. I am on a gluten free diet and I can feel the difference in myself for 3 weeks sometimes if I get a trace of gluten. I don't think it lasts that long in my daughter, but I can't be sure how often she actually cheats on her diet. She does still have some very extreme behaviour when she does cheat. When she cheats and is back to her ODD ways, we just try to stay out of her way. We don't insist that she do chores but she does get a consequence for not doing them. She has to spend more time in her room and she frequently loses her cell phone and TV privileges. I try to make it as unpleasant for her as I can so she will be motivated to stay on her diet, but at the same time, I don't push her. This works for us, because it is a temporary thing but it wouldn't feel right if she was this way all the time. The only luck I have had controlling ODD is with a diet change. If you are interested in trying a diet, you could try to send his food with him when he goes to his dad's. I still have to do that sometimes when my daughter goes some place else. She started this diet when she was 10. I told her she could eat whatever she wanted in the beginning, as long as it didn't have gluten, just so she wouldn't cheat and I could see if it would work. [/QUOTE]
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