from conf 1999 & bethesda Talks

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I thought a few of you might find this helpful

Top contains pieces of an overview of Dr G's presentation at the

conference

in Bethesda MD in 1999

Below are a few notes I took from Dr G's Bethesda talks

(Dr G and parents - Sat night - 3-4 hrs of nothing but non-stop chat ...

Dr G with a laptop, marker and big pieces of paper - boy how I miss

these!!!)

- A DISEASE PROCESS

what are we seeing on the SPECT scans:

- abnormal scans

- hypoperfusion - temp lobe

(right temp lobe = social skills // left temp lobe = language/auditory)

- hypoperfusion - occipital/parietal lobe

- hypoperfusion - cerebellum

(3 above indicate motor coord, fine -gross motor skills problems)

- scalloping/thinning

- explains LKS - abnormal EEGs

- normal MRIs

- normal CAT scans

Immune abnormalities reported:

- changes in T Cells (and function)

- CD4 / CD8 increased/decreased

- low (and elevated) NK cells

- B cells (increased and decreased)

- increased interleukin 2 receptors

- decreased mitogen response

- altered delayed hypersensitivity

- antibodies to serotonin receptors

- antibodies to neuro elements

Immune/Viral patterns in blood work:

-low NK cells

- elevated T4, T8 cells

- positive ANAs

- multiple elevated viral titers

- 'shifts to the right' on food screens (IgG and IgE)

Bethesda Night talks

- A small study conducted back in MAT days of 48 NY families

> in 2000-1 24 were still with Dr G.

> 7 of these kids had made progress but still not 'ok'

> 7 of these kids were almost there

> 10 kids fully functioning, 'normal', on a main. schedule

- Vaccine schedule:

> DPT / Polio / Hib -> all needed on schedule so long as the child is

healthy.

can be spaced out

> Hep B -> give as a teenage unless in an environment where the child's

health is

at risk

> MMR -> 15 mths

(now I have a note here to wait for the measles vaccine until 10-11 yrs

old. Might

indicate a booster)

> no Chickenpox vaccine

- medications in general:

> ritalin has the same effect as cocaine onthe brain (cuts blood flow)

> risperadal will damage brain over time

> nystatin - most yeast are resistant to it

Doris

- land