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Advice please

CavCof

my 14yo child has just received an ASD diagnosis. The last few years have been extremely hard, with my child suffering severe anxiety. 

They are now receiving help and have been prescribed sertraline to help the anxiety, which is starting to work. But they are still suffering from liquid diarrhoea every morning and during the day. Their sertraline dose is still low (only 50mg) and we are going to up it to see if that helps, but any other advice on how to help their gut would be great. 

We have looked for links with food intolerances etc., but they have this diarrhoea every single day, it doesn’t come and go. It also only started as their anxiety got bad. But that does mean they have been living with an incredibly upset tummy for over a year now. 

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  • in reply to mouse2

    Taste buds can't detect Lactose - up to 5% of milk is pure sugar and it's suspended in the watery part so cheese is normally ok.    Lactase converts the Lactose into simpler sugars  that can be tasted (it's why Lactofree tastes sweeter).

    The bacteria in the gut for dairy is a Western-only evolution so the bacteria lives on the narrower parts of the intestine's ridges so it's ripped away first with an upset tummy.    It often comes back - but it can be months or years before you can process dairy again.