Food allergy affecting sleep?

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   Anyone know of any food allergies that could be affecting Jakes sleep? Our diet has changed a fair bit over this pregnancy and we've found his sleep has gotten progressively worse. 

He had about 3 months of runny stinky nappies almost constantly but the doc said it was an intestinal infection (could it have possibly been a reaction?) and now his sleep is awful. Its not that he doesn't want to sleep - the poor little guy gets exhausted but he seems incapable of winding himself down. Since hes been a great sleeper and awesome at self-settling since he was a newborn me and DP are fairly sure it isn't a phase.

He eats alot of eggs, grains (millet muffins, spelt pancakes, wholegrain tortillas, quinoa, etc all homemade stuff), no dairy except cheese and thats only become part of his diet in the last few months so we're wondering if it may be affecting him. No junk food, no excess sugar, nothing processed. He loves dried and fresh fruit too.

We put him on a modified elimination diet and noticed that too many particular salicylates (i.e too many apples with skin on) made him abit aggro. We want to try cutting other stuff out but I'm finding it hard to find the info I need ATM. My head just isn't cooperating so we thought maybe some of you mummies with allergy-prone kids might be able to suggest some things we could try?

Hope this makes sense. Of course if your 2 and a half year old suddenly decided he could exist on a max of 8 hours of sleep yet spent all day in a half-asleep daze please let me know coz we may be wrong and it may be an age thing  either way we need some help coz hes running himself ragged!