hyper, laughing, squealling, not sleeping...

July 16, 2006

hi everyone,

our autistic son has been scd since january; we introduced goat

yogurt about three months into the diet, took out nuts completely

over a month ago. his bm's are solid unless he eats too much fruit;

however, his overall progress is very up and down. recently we tried

giving him some homemade raw cow's milk yogurt and some legal cow

cheeses, but even before this he was regressing in several areas,

such as not responding to his name or questions asked of him, not

using utensils anymore, not wanting to explore playground equipment,

not being excited when mom and dad come home...he just wants to look

at books and watch movies (all day, if we would allow this!). he is

still non-verbal for the most part, usually making high-pitched

squalling sounds. he is stimming more than he ever has, lining

things up obsessively, circle spinning, side-glancing, squinting,

hugging things, mouthing objects...we were wondering what other

families have experienced with this diet and recovery of autism.

our boy was diagnosed at 2.3 and was gfcg for one year with tons of

biomed stuff (supplements, chelation, etc) before starting this diet

six months ago. he's done tomatis listening therapy, claybaths,

magnetic matress pad, you name it, we've tried a lot of stuff on our

little guy in the last year and a half. how long before we start to

see some STEADY progress??? that's what this mom needs in order to

forge on...or some encouraging words!

at the moment, our boy is not chelating, but doing minimal

supplements (b12 shots, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, dmg), and sees a

classic homeopath (who suggested that in order to allow the body to

learn to heal itself, you need not bombard it with too many

supplements). it's just so hard to know that you're doing all you

can, or are you doing too much??? aah!

thank you so much for this group's support,

searmi

mom of benjamin, asd, 3.8 year-old (scd for 6 months), and matilda,

20 months old, nt and talking up a storm!

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