Could it be the yogurt?

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Dear All,

Last night we tried the goat's milk yogurt for the first time with Liam. I

gave him about 1.5 tablespoons of it mixed with his peach sauce. This

morning at 6 am he woke up with what seems to have been a nightmare and he

was inconsolable for about 30 minutes--screaming and kicking. It was pretty

severe. (This happened the other night but only for about five

minutes--historically he has slept very well and is usually able to calm

down from a nightmare in just a few minutes.) We attributed the other night

to die-off symptoms.

My husband wonders if it's the yogurt (he hasn't had dairy since August). I

explained to him that this is unlikely (based on all that I have read about

the goat's milk, the yogurt making process, and the typical positive

reaction to the yogurt for kids on the spectrum).

A confounding variable in all of this (and I'm just kicking myself for it)

is that we bought him a new rug yesterday (unfortunately it was synthetic)

and last night was the first time he slept in his room with the rug. We

thought that when we went in his room to rescue him from the nightmare that

the carpet smelled very strong--we have already put it in the car to return

it. Fellow parents in our area have talked about the off-gasing from new

carpets causing problems in their ASD children--who knows why this didn't

cross my mind when I put it in his room. During his meltdown he was coughing

and seemed to be in some sort of pain (he is nonverbal so cannot tell us

exactly what is happening.)

My hunch is that it's the carpet and not the yogurt. (Also, he is in his

third week of Nystatin and perhaps this is another layer of die-off.) If it

IS the yogurt, I wonder if it's the die-off with the bacteria--as his HPHPA

level was literally 10x that of the normal reference range. From what I have

read, the good bacteria in the yogurt is powerful to drive out the bad

bacteria in the HPHPA--could there be a strong reaction to this sort of

bacterial die-off (if there is such a thing)?

Right now he is very content, calm, affectionate, and still. I would think

that if it's the casein in the yogurt he would be repetitively jumping (his

favorite stim which has gone down literally about 80% since SCD and

Nystatin).

Any thoughts? I don't want to precipitously stop giving him the yogurt out

of fear that it is bad for him (particularly when it could be this toxic

carpet, die-off symptoms from yeast and bacteria, or just a bad nightmare

that took him a while to recover from). What have others' experiences been

when first introducing the goat's milk yogurt?

Thank you,

Audrey

Mom to Liam 2.9 y.o. ASD (three weeks SCD)

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