Megson's protocol embedded in my ramblings

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Hi..

someone was asking about Dr.Megson's protocol

I posted this a while back

scroll to the bottom for links

sorry for my tendency to ramble!!!!

Jzin

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an old post of mine

--- Jzin Teng wrote:

> Hi folks,

>

> Ackerman once said, she would pay

> anything just to get into the body of her son

> to see what its' like to be autistic.

> I found this link that explains so many reasons

> for my sons' autistic behaviors!

> (I have a low functioning 4 year old and a

> high functioning 2 year old)

>

> It's incredible! Why didn't I think of it sooner?

>

> Lack of depth perception and stereoscopic vision,

> poor muscular control for visual tracking/focusing

> etc would explain most of my kids' autistic

> behaviors!

> (transition tantrums/lying limp on the ground,

> peculiar running (turning head side to side),

> inability to catch ball,

> low attention span, visual stims,

> lack of social skills, lack of imitative pretend

> play,

> self taught spelling, perfectionism, rigidity,

> does not run/extremely careful 2 year old, etc etc)

>

> See link:

> http://www.asw4autism.org/vision.htm

> Wow! Ephiphany! This article allows me more empathy

> as

> a mother

> It's not that my kids do not want to follow

> instructions, they cannot

>

> Hmm.. now we see the " why " s, now what?

>

> Thanks to super mom Katrina Chin who

> told me about Megson's high dose vitamin A

> protocol

> we tried it on 5/18/5 and in less than 1 week, we

> see

> great results

> (it's true this is no controlled experiment

> we are doing a kazillion other things

> (HBOT 6/18/5, SCD diet re-started from scratch

> 6/9/5,

> TD-DMPS since 8/8/04, etc)

> but we feel improvements are due to vitamin A

> since we saw them before we started HBOT

> -by now (about 1 month), when I give my son verbal

> instructions,

> his compliance/response is IMMEDIATE! It used to

> be he did not hear me and require many repeats and

> physical prompting

> -increased rate of acquistion of mastered operants

> in functional pretend play/ABA from 1/month average

> to 17 in June

> -getting 100% on block imitation: as if he finally

> has

> 3D vision and can see " front " or " back "

> -improved long distance vision noted by 6/12 (and

> quick response)

> -by 6/2 sustained attention when he unloads entire

> laundry from dryer (before this he would " forget "

> half

> way and require a zillion verbal/physical

> reminders/load

> -by 5/30 allows himself to be cuddled for long time

> (he used to say " stop it " after a few seconds)

> many good days of ABA immediately after this

> treatment. But now, even the least

> experienced therapist on his team noted he has long

> attention span and working good.

> -etc..slightly more varied language (due to HBOT?)

> I've also heard good things of high dose vit A

> protocol from other moms on abmd yahoo group:

> " I have noticed more of a calm, longer attention

> span,

> seeing things that he may not have seen

> before…details

> of trees…. "

> another mom notes:

> " Visual stims significantly reduced [they required

> more than just this

> protocol to entirely eliminate, but this was the

> first

> step],

> increased language, especially in spontaneity of use

> of words rather

> than gestures, significant reduction in echolalic

> speech, increased

> social interaction and pretend play. "

>

> This is what we did…

> (ask your DAN! Doctor about it, I'm no Dr.)

> I gave about 200,000+ IU vitamin A (~40 drops)

> for once a day for ONLY 2 DAYS

> 1 toll free to order from Klaire lab

>

http://www.protherainc.com/prod/proddetail.asp?id=V060-01

>

http://www.tahoma-

clinic.com/shop/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/23/products_id/31?

> I got mine from Dr.Bob $15 I think

> and then stayed with ~1 drop/day

> at the end of ~1 month

> we gave prescribed (compounded)

> bethanocol(=urocholine)

> http://www.picmc.com/bethanecol.html

> as outlined by Megson protocol

>

http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/August2001/IsAutG-

AlphaEtc.htm

>

http://www.megson.com/HYPOTHESIS/MEDICAL_HYPOTHESIS_ARTICLE.html

> after 1 week, my son had a very very red face

> and lethargic, fever, but in good mood. Was that a

> side effect? We don't know.

> ask your Dr. about side effects!

> by now we are still giving 1 drop (=5000IU) vitamin

> A

> and 2x/day bethanochol.. this is 2 months now

>

> next, I will check out Dr. (not seen her

> yet)

> http://www.drjulieryan.com/vision_therapy.html

> to confirm if these vision problems truly exist

> in my kids and if they need vision therapy

>

http://www.visiontherapystories.org/vision_autism.html

>

> I imagine as mercury affects the muscles of

> Gross, fine motor and GI smooth muscles,

> Mercury also affects the controlling of eye muscles.

>

> Thus we hope chelation will help in the long run.

> But I think high dose vitamin A is doing something

> as a quick (and cheap!) intervention. I imagine

> (we've

> not yet done)

> vision therapy will be strengthening exercises.

>

> Anyone who has done vision therapy or has more

> insight

>

> on this topic please enlighten me.

> I am just an excited mom, stumbled upon this idea

> and theorizing

>

> Jzin

> On a quest to be a more accepting mother

> while refusing to accept autism

>