Re: Bad Yeast and Scripting?

[Guest guest]

Hi Eileen,

There are several books out about this issue and the yeast free diet. Check out Karyn Seroussi's amazing book Unraveling The Mysteries of Autism and PDD and Jaquelyn McCandless' book Children with Starving Brains...a medical treatment guide for autism spectrum disorder.

If you cannot find these at the bookstore try Future Horizons which is a catalogue for special needs materials or you can borrow my copies.

Good luck,

Shari

[Guest guest]

hi eileen,

another good resource is dr. william shaw' book ...Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD.

Take care,

Shari

[Guest guest]

I have a question regarding the labs used by DAN doctors. Why are only certain labs used? Why can't the tests be run at any lab? Has anyone else ever questioned this practice? Being a nurse, I don't understand why a lab like Mayo, for example, couldn't be used. Can anyone share some insight? Would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

[Guest guest]

hi Eileen,

The tests to be done can be ordered by you or a physician, best

would be a DAN! physician who is trained to read them. Stool tests

are often unreliable. Bets is to get the OAT (Organic Acid Test)

from Great Plains Laboratories (just google them). If you go to Dr.

DeMio's site, he will describe this test along with some others that

he orders typically when he gets a new patient. We did this test

with Great Plains and were very high on both yeast and bad baceria.

With about 3 months of treatment, my son's receptive language skills

dramatically improved and his self-stimulatory behaviors decreased

as well. His stoools have been very regular since the anti-yeast

and anti-bacterial treatment. The variety of foods he eats now has

expanded also greatly. Before treating the GI for yeast and

bacteria he would not eat a variety and would be constipated off an

on. With the yeast treatment we did not see a decrease in OCD-like

behaviors, such as scripting. These behaviors for us seem to relate

more to overall immune function. The OCD get a LOT worse in the

wintertime when Evan battles constant colds...but I could see that

perhaps a child who does not have a significant immune system issue

would be less OCD-like with an anti-fungal treatment alone is that

makes sense. It seems to me that my son just happens to have MANY

underlying medical problems. I agree the books that Shari listed are

great resources. You can also find some lectures on the issues

online, I will google these and post. Hope this helps.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I have to yet do research on this to thoroughly be able to answer

your Q. Here is what I know. The labs that DAN! docs like to use

have done specific research on what instruments are able to detect

abnormalities and which ones don't. The one example I can give you

is that a hospital stool test did not show yeast issues in my son's

GI trackt, but the Organic Acid test did and once we treated for

yeast based on the OAT, we saw marked improvements.

If you go to the great Plains Laboratories website, you will find

lots of good info there and the explanations for each test.

Re. insurance coverage for these tests, it is not impossible to get

with the proper diagnosis code (NOT AUTISM!) from your DAN! doctor.

Or a doctor that knows enough about the underlying medical issues in

autism that he or she is aware of these tests and is able to

diagnose and code them so that they get covered. We have actually

gotten some of my specialized lab work covered through my insurance

company (not a full coverage but something like 70-80%).

I hope this helped a little.

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> I have a question regarding the labs used by DAN doctors. Why

are only

> certain labs used? Why can't the tests be run at any lab? Has

anyone else ever

> questioned this practice? Being a nurse, I don't understand why

a lab like

> Mayo, for example, couldn't be used. Can anyone share some

insight? Would

> greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

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