Update on 25 month old now OFF NutriiVeda for one week

[Guest guest]

Hello ,

  I apologize for not posting sooner, but our family took a short vacation this

week so I didn't want to spend much time on the computer.  We just got home

this afternoon.   Anyway, Jack has been off of NV ( and his NN fish oils) for

1 week and 1 day now.  (His last NV shake was Thursday night 02/18/2010.)  I

guess I have some good and some bad news to report (depending on how you look at

it. ) 

The first two days he was off of the NV, I didn't notice any differences.  On

the third day, I began to see the following changes.  The good news (and

suprising news) is that we have not seen any regression in the words that Jack

has recently picked up!  The " bad " news is that I have noticed a significant

regression in his focus and attention span. (This was also noted by his

SLP during his last therapy session - Monday.)   I think he is babbling less

and doesn't seem to be picking up any new words as well.   The other negative

thing I have noticed over the past few days is Jack has been hitting more

frequently.  He used to hit (me, my husband, his brother or anyone around

him) almost as a reflex.  (I don't think this correlated with his speech in

anyway because he didn't seem to do it in relation to speech frustration.)  You

could tell by his face that he didn't mean to do it immediately after it

happened.  It seemed as though he

didn't have control over it.  It stopped a little while ago, but I think it

was before we started the NV.   Either way, the hitting has started again. 

This is something I will be interested to keep an eye on when we start back on

the NV Monday evening.  I can't wait to put him back on it.  

, I feel like you may be right in your thoughts that NV may be repairing

the problem areas in the brain.  This would explain Jack's ability to keep the

new words he has learned, but stop any new progression now that he is off of

it.  You may have been seeing verbal regression in the older kids because there

may be more long term damage there.  Perhaps because Jack is only 25 months

there is less damage to repair and therefore less regression???  Just a

thought.  I will keep you posted if we see any other changes now that we are

back home and back to our usual schedule.

Feel free to give me a call again if you want to discuss this further!

Thanks!

IL