What I have been doing with . . .

[Guest guest]

My son is nine with high-functioning autism.

Right now we are taking him to see a naturopath who has him on the following

supplements and homeopathic remedies:

Adrena-Calm cream, 2x daily (1/4 tsp. rubbed on inside of elbows and back of

neck)

Metal-Chord (homeopathic, apx. 10 drops 2x daily)

Vitamin B12 (8 drops 2x daily)

Cod Liver Oil (1/2 tsp 1x daily)

Culturelle (1 capsule daily)

Somaplex 21 Multi (15 drops in water 2x daily)

Kid's Cherry Chewables (3 tablets a day)

IgG 2000 DF (1 capsule 2x daily).

We have had him on the GFCF diet since around November.

At 's last visit to the naturopath, she used electro-dermal screening on

him and said that the yeast she'd found at his initial visit was almost all

gone. But since that last visit, his behavior has gotten a lot more, energetic,

shall we say. He's started stripping our bed again and it's been a very long

time since he's done that.

There's been some spontaneous speech but there's still a lot of echolalia there.

It seems that lately has been asking a lot of questions like, " Where are

you going? " " What are you doing? " and his favorite, " What's that name? " (the

name of someone on TV, usually.)

I have been feeding him a lot of banana bread lately because so far, that and

5.00 bagels from Whole Foods are the only breads he'll eat. I can make the

banana bread from scratch using Bette Hagman's GFCF flour mix. Did someone on

here say bananas are full of phenols?

We are still having problems finding a sitter so we can go to counseling. The

sitter we hired never showed this past Wednesday and we have told the agency

that sent her to us that we are taking are business elsewhere.

Fortunately, we are not dealing with sleep problems because when goes to

bed, he'll go to sleep and stay there until morning. But he will get up

anywhere between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (we put him to bed around 8-8:30 p.m.) He's

also been wetting the bed a lot. This week at camp he had two accidents where

he wet his pants.

Maybe between three groups I can get some ideas of what else I can be doing with

him.

--

Tina

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[Guest guest]

> Right now we are taking him to see a naturopath who has him on the

following supplements and homeopathic remedies:

I have not used many of the supps you list, but here is info on the

ones I have used:

> Vitamin B12 (8 drops 2x daily)

This required folic acid and carnitine for proper absorption at my

house, and did tend to increase yeast at first.

> Cod Liver Oil (1/2 tsp 1x daily)

This required mito cocktail for proper absorption

http://www.danasview.net/mar05.htm

>>But since that last visit, his behavior has gotten a lot more,

energetic, shall we say.

B12 can do this, especially if not given with folic acid.

> There's been some spontaneous speech but there's still a lot of

echolalia there.

Folic helped eliminate this problem also.

>>Did someone on here say bananas are full of phenols?

They are low phenol, but high amine, and for some kids, amine

reactions are very similar to phenol reactions. I have amine links in

the middle of my phenol page

http://www.danasview.net/phenol.htm

Bananas also tend to increase yeast.

> Fortunately, we are not dealing with sleep problems because when

goes to bed, he'll go to sleep and stay there until morning.

But he will get up anywhere between 6 and 6:30 a.m. (we put him to bed

around 8-8:30 p.m.) He's also been wetting the bed a lot. This week

at camp he had two accidents where he wet his pants.

Yeast die off can cause bed wetting.

Dana