GI problems-any experts?

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Hi, Rosie here. My 5 year old has just recently started having overt

GI symptoms. Two months ago we found that he was full of gas and

stool when we had an x-ray done. He had been belching, passing gas

and after several days of this he started bloating and having

abdominal pain. I should back up and say that prior to this he was

on Creon for a couple of weeks because he had had discharged an

orange colored, oily substance a couple of times with his bm. When

he started with the GI symptoms listed above we took him off the

Creon. We finally seemed to have him cleaned out after several

enemas, suppositories and finally, the addition of Miralax. We were

trying to give flax meal (EFA) but this seemed to worsen his bloating

and abdominal pain until after we got him moving with the Miralax.

He did well for a couple of weeks on one tsp. of Miralax per day and

1/4tsp of EFA 3 times a day. I then tried to bump up the EFA to

1/2tsp. two times a day and wean him off the Miralax by giving it to

him every other day instead of daily (he had been on it for two

weeks). We were using 1/2 cap of Enzymaid Companion and tried him on

Colostrum and Pro Bio Gold as well. After bumping up EFA and

reducing Miralax, his normally foot long, well formed stools became

smaller in diameter and in pieces. He also had a couple incidences

of bloat and abdominal pain. His bm's became explosive from having

so much gas. I started giving the Miralax daily again and reduced

the EFA to 1/4tsp 3/day. Yesterday, he passed what appeared to be a

red mass of tissue about 3/4 of an inch long and 1/4 to 3/8 of an

inch in width. He continued to have about 7 more bm's over the

course of the day which became yellow in color and consisted of very

small amounts of shredded material and undigested food. He mostly

passed large amounts of gas. What is going on here???? Dr.

Kartzinel, who we are consulting with has ordered a stool culture and

sensitivity as well as testing for blood, ova, parasites, fecal

leukocytes and c. difficile (sp?) toxin. In the mean time we are

back to square one on his supplements (including enzymes and

probiotic) as we were told to hold those for now... Yikes! Our son

has lots of free circulating mercury (which means, I guess, that

exposure is more recent than his vaccinations that ceased 3 years

ago) and we have been trying to prep for chelation but things seem to

be really complicated and slow going. I guess he could have had GI

problems before that were asymptomatic, but this is really starting

to concern me. Sorry so long-anyone out there with similar

experience or GI/autism expertise who might know what is going

on????? Sorry for the book-Rosie