Hi Snoopy,

Thanks for your reply. To answer your questions:
I dont think he has sores in his mouth, he dosent give any indication for it. He's picky about certain foods only.

I allow him to eat only those foods that he's not allergic to. He can choose between those.
If he had his way, he would defenitely choose only the ones that he's allergic or intolerant to (he used to crave milk before I stopped it).

The pinching and pulling people's hair is generally a means of escaping from a task - for eg. if you ask him something and if he dosent want to answer he does this. He even does it when he's excited (for no specific reason).
But one thing is that all this crazy behaviour comes only when there's a problem with either yeast or bacterial overgrowth - some kind of a gut dysbiosis. When he's treated for yeast, we have a different child altogether (no such behaviours, very calm, attentive). The problem is that it keeps recurring.

Without digestive enzymesand the special diet he would be a total mess (I think) with all sorts of digestive problems, which are closely related to behavioral problems (from what I've seen in him). If he's not able to effectively digest his food, I see him getting very irritable the next day.

When he was on milk, he would crave for it and would actually get up every 2 or 3 hours at night crying for milk. He would go back to sleep after his doses of milk. It was only after I stopped it that he began to sleep through the night. I also noticed better eye contact, more awareness of surroundings and less crankiness and hyperactivity after I stopped all products containing gluten and casein.

Rigid - insists on doing things the same way like taking a familiar route etc.

He generally has a warm body.

He's not able to calm down at bedtime as he's quite excited and hyper. He generally sleeps in a sideways position. I dont usually cover him as its quite warm as it is. I stopped using the air conditioner as his nose gets blocked if I use it.

Other symptoms (during yeast flare up) that I did not mention in my earlier post -
problems with transition from one activity to another
greater sensory problems (light, sound, touch etc.)
unable to focus (inattentive)

There's a lot more to describe about. I'll continue in my next post.

Thanks
Krish