Tics and food

[noobiefied]

Hi everyone, Ive remembered having tics basically to my farthest memory in my child hood. Now that ive grown to my teens I have choose to take more of this situation into my own hands rather then sit and wait for someone to help. While doing research out there Ive noticed that diets have popped up on a lot of the ways that may help TICs.

 

So my question is, Anyone have any good basic diet guide lines for people with TICs?

 

many thanks!

~Hong

[Chemar]

welcome Hong

 

dietary modifications are generally based on potential allergy/sensitivity to foods.

 

the easiest way to test this is to eliminate food groups one at a time for a few weeks and then add them back again. you will quickly notice if tics improve while you are off eg dairy and if they increase when you go back on it. Same with gluten. You can also keep a food diary and note if tics increase when you eat specific things

 

One thing that seems pretty widespread is that artificial ingredients like food coloring, sweeteners like aspartame/nutrasweet. sucralose/splenda, MSG, high fructose corn syrup amongst others seem to be universally bad for people with neuro issues

 

adding extra magnesium seems to help. Many members here use a product called Natural Calm (ionic magnesium citrate) as well as bathing in epsom salts (magnesium sulfate: 2 cups in tub warm water, soak 20min) very helpful

 

I have a link in my signature on what helped my son, updated over the years.

 

others will have additional info for you too

[Familyof5]

Chemar,

Just reading your post and noticed you wrote "sucrolose". Is this the same as sucrose (assuming it is)? I'm just realizing that the toxin binding medication my children are all on is sweetened with sucrolose. Do you think this may be a problem?

Cathy

[noobiefied]

Thank you! gluten... not to familiar with that term. can u explain?

[Chemar]

Chemar,

Just reading your post and noticed you wrote "sucrolose". Is this the same as sucrose (assuming it is)? I'm just realizing that the toxin binding medication my children are all on is sweetened with sucrolose. Do you think this may be a problem?

Cathy

 

sucralose is marketed as Splenda, and added to a lot of stuff now. It was not approved by the FDA for 10 years after it came out because of possible health concerns, I believe mainly digestive. Not sure who did what to get it approved but it seems a lot of people are noting unpleasant symptoms and when no longer using the sucralose, it seems to improve. My son finds it messes with his tics as well as the Crohn's

 

sucralose is sugar molecules chemically altered by replacing some carbon atoms with chlorine.

 

sucrose is different, it is a combination of fructose and glucose and occurs naturally in many plants, inclusing sugar beets etc. Unfortunately a lot of it nowadays is derived from corn, and often the corm is genetically modified, mold contaminated etc

 

but given the choice, sucrose is a far better alternative than sucralose imho