6mth. flare

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I was talking to our DAN dietician about several different things concerning

iel's treatments. One was the stool issue. I think I posted a few weeks

back how his stools were very odd...several small marbles instead of one formed

BM, not hard, just strange formation. Well, they've turned to one mass of

peanutbutter consistency in the past week. My concern was that it is due to

yeast coming back. We are chelating with DMPS...have been for about 3mths.

I've also noticed other behaviors that had dimished creeping up again. He used

to have severe echolalia, but it really cut back in mid to late summer after a

couple of months of SCD, MB12 injections, and then DMPS. Well, it's back again.

He hasn't lost the communication that he gained. He is still answering

questions, expressing desires, ect. He just is back to repeating everything

anyone else says as well. He's also been singing and humming all the time

again. He used to do this constantly before he could speak, but it cut back a

bit once he began to gain some communication skills. He has always been drawn

to music, loves to sing, play the piano, ect. But the humming thing again makes

me think that he's kind of off in his own little world or something. He doesn't

seem super spacey. Also, his potty training is in definite regression. He will

still pee on the toilet, but will not have a BM on the toilet. This started

slowly about a month ago, and gradually moved from occassionally to all of the

time. He immediately comes to tell me to change his poopoo after he goes.

Anyway, so in talking with Vikki about all of this stuff, she asked me to remind

her how long he's been SCD. When I said that I first started noticing slow

changes he was 6mths SCD, and she thinks that it is the common 6 mth. flare.

She said if it continues for another couple of weeks, to call them back, and do

some natural antifungals in the meantime. So after my description of the

various problems...returned humming, toilet training regression, mushy

stools...what do you guys think? 6mth. flare? Try the intro diet for a couple

of days? I'm trying to figure out what is going on. I do not want to have to

do an RX antifungal. Help.

Meleah SCD 05/06

iel 3.5yrs. ASD, Ethan 5yrs., Mark 20mths., both NT