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Striking Gold with Feingold
When Foods Affect Your Child's Behavior
By J.J. Hanley
Last May, 22-year-old Kori Schneider graduated from New York University. For her mother Judy, watching Kori receive her diploma was an experience that she thought she might never see.
"I sat with the tears flowing at how much she had accomplished and how far she had come," Judy said, remembering the nightmare of Kori's early childhood.
At age two, Kori had never slept through the night.
"We were exhausted from that," Judy said. "But then she started having complete mood swings. She would wake up every night, screaming from nightmares with her legs and arms flailing. Eventually she began having tantrums during the day. I hate to say it, but she reminded me of the child in the exorcist. It was a horror."
Judy knew intuitively that what her daughter was experiencing was much worse than a case of the terrible two's, but she had no idea what was wrong.
"Even my neighbors knew she was having a problem," she said of the screams that could be heard up and down their street in Staten Island, New York. In fact, during one tantrum, Judy placed Kori on the front lawn of their home to prove to neighbors that she wasn't harming the girl.
Judy described her daughter's difficult behavior as "autistic-like." Although her language was developing normally, she had poor motor skills and seemed disconnected from the world around her, especially when she was having a tantrum.
This is an excerpt of an article from a past issue.
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