We started with casein. We stopped drinking milk for a week. Then we took out yogurt, cheese, ice cream ect. Then we eliminated all trace elements of casein. We did not see any big improvements until all casein was removed. But the results were remarkable. The most noteable improvement was sleep. After three days being casein free my son sleep soundly for the first time. To us it was miraculous. He had been taking Tenex for sleep, but no longer needed it. His sleep is much better than it had been taking the tenex and without side effects. He also stopped flipping the lights on and off. Furthermore, he lost his obsession with the Wiggles.

After three weeks of casein free we removed gluten. The improvements from removing the glutten were more subtle. But the terrible withdrawl symptoms and desperation to eat anything with glutten, even foods not previously liked, convinced me there was a definite problem with the glutten.

Later on we discovered after my son started eating a lot of soy yogurt that he was not sleeping quite as well. So we took out soy also. Interestingly 2 containers of soy yogurt did not effect his sleep as much as 1 sip of milk.

I give my son Cocoa Pebbles. I love the Kraft company because thier policy is to disclose any source of glutten, milk, or other common allergens. Not all companies do this so you have to call about many of the ingredients. For example next to hydrogenated vegatable oil (which can be a problem) they have in prarenthesis coconut and palm kernal oil. If there was a gluttenous source it would also be listed.