Question on antibiotics and regression

May 18, 2006

Hello,

I'm a mom from the Netherlands with a 7 year old son, diagnosed with

autism and celiacs. He's been SCD for 2+ years and made great

progress (also doing ABA). As he has made so much progress we have

been adding two slices of GF bread per day, many months ago, and

noticed no changes, he continued to progress until...

two weeks ago he developed a very nasty bacterial tonsilitus. We

could no longer avoid antibiotics, since he nearly had to be

hospitalised as he could no longer eat or drink due to the swelling.

It was his first antibiotics ever! So we had no experience how this

could effect his gut. He was given Amoxiciline for 7 days. During

and also after this week we gave him extra servings of nutyoghurt,

hoping to keep his gut in good shape.

However, he has been regressing, a lot of (verbal)stimming, hard to

reach, slow to respond, wetting his bed and so on. All of which he

has overcome many many months ago (I could just as well say all of

which are pre-SCD).

His stool is unchanged, no bowel problems, does not complain of any

pain.

He has a huge appetite, eat almost twice as much as before being

sick.

Maybe it would be best to return to the intro-diet. However, since

he's been so sick, he's lost a lot of weight. He was a 7-year old of

only 18 kilo's, but now he's just 16 kilo's, which is underweight.

My experience first time on the intro-diet was that he lost weight.

Something he can not afford now.

Any suggestions anyone? Anyone with same experiences (regression)

after antibiotics?

Esther

Mother of 7-year old boy/girl twin, both celiac, boy autism and

speechdisorder

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