Therapy needs---Cheryl

[Guest guest]

Please read and take to heart Dr. 's words and take her study

and post to your appointment. It will help your dr. help you. It is

going to take a while for you to figure out the allergens involved,

if that is part of your deal. You need trial eliminations and testing

for that. It will take a while (and some serious pushing) for you to

get the testing in the malabsorption folder but you must do it, along

with genetic testing. You need to know if the gut is involved, to

what extent, and genetics will guide you as to the need for

permanence with some dietary stuff, whether or not something more

serious like FOD and/or mito is at issue, and how your child compares

to the syndrome seen on the board by the responders. You also need to

know if environmental allergens, vaccine injury and/or metal are part

of this.

Therapy plays a role and seems your most immediate concern as you

need it while you address the above. One thing I learned just last

night is the one truly dyspraxic child who had definite milk and

gluten issues along with allergy stuff, is that while it may not have

aapeared that she was processing all that was done with her (2 months

ago she tested out at age 3 in preschool despite being 5 and being

there for 2 years) she was. One month free of most but not all

allergens has that same child testing at 2nd grade level. So the

information was there, in a holding pattern, in her brain. One month

on the right diet (as much as they can tell so far) she is setting

the table and saying " OK, let's see, I need a for for daddy, etc.).

So, as for therapy:

Get as much as you can for free and do as much as you can on your own

and consider NACD. Janice has posted on this extensively.

Neuroplasticity will allow your child's brain to develop in spite of

what is blocking it and you need all the help you can get. Do all you

can, doo it now and do it frequently, intensely, and for as long a

duration as you can.