DIETA LIBRE DE GLUTEN Y CASEÍNA EN PACIENTES CON TRASTORNO DE ESPECTRO AUTISTA. ASOCIACIÓN “UN LUGAR PARA TUS SUEÑOS

Abstract

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) conceptualizes a set of conditions characterized by alteration of behavior in society, language and communication in addition to a compilation of limiting and repetitive actions, Given in the first years of life. Manifested clinically with: behaviors that threaten the security of their own, how to self-harm, escapism or negative to eat or sleep; verbal or physical aggressive behaviors that threaten the safety of members of the family or other persons outside the closest circle of the subject with ASD or physical destruction of material goods, Persistent Negative ; to requests from adults, from disobedience to maximum ends of incommunicado detention, as is the selective mutism or catatonia. The pathophysiology of this disease is characterized by a dysfunction of the permeability, caused by normal immunity. (2) Based on the theory of opioids mentions that at the time that the exogenous peptides (gluteomorfina caseomorfina), From the gluten and casein reach the bloodstream, these travels to the brain by crossing the blood-brain barrier and interact with opioid receptors; the properties have been attributed to neuromodulators that produce impact on the central and peripheral nervous system causing alteration of the behavioral symptoms of ASD. The present study was conducted in parents and/or caregivers of children and adolescents with ASD diagnosis belonging to the Association "A place for your dreams", the city of Portoviejo. Through this intervention is investigated the effect of gluten-free and casein on the behavioral symptoms in these patients. Through the implementation of the survey questionnaire of behavioral symptoms according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) modified from 3 to 17 years of age" and food consumption through "Questionnaire on frequency of Food Consumption". The basis for this theme is based on "Consumption of foods containing casein and gluten and its relationship with the development of characteristic behavioral symptoms in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (DSM-5) of 5 to 19 years of age of the comprehensive psychoeducational center Isaac in the city of Guayaquil. November 2014 - February 2015," And "gluten-free and casein in the Autism Spectrum Disorder: a systematic review", where it justifies the application of a gluten-free and casein in the management of patients with ASD. Considering the studies as the basis for the development of this research project, results were favorable data after the implementation of the gluten-free and casein in the improvement of the behavioral symptoms of patients with ASD, demonstrating that the lower the consumption of foods that contain gluten and casein there is a decrease in the degree of severity of behavioral symptoms, improving the quality of life of patients.