growth spurts, hormones and seizures--help please!

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone,

I am looking into the connection between growth spurts and seizures. I have been

doing the DAN protocol with my son over the past year and a half with amazing

results, but we just experienced a pretty significant regression which (thank

god) he is now recovering from it seems.

We changed nothing in terms of his diet, supplements etc. and suddenly he began

to display behaviors we had not seen for over a year such as severe, hour long

meltdowns, sleep interruptions, stimming, EXTREME spaciness and clumsiness (poor

body spatial awareness).

Our DAN doctor suggested that he may be having absente seizures and we are going

to be checking that out w/ a neurologist (we've done an EEG before which was

clear).

It so happens that for the past 3-4 months our son has been on a HUGE growth

spurt, eating tons and growing a tremendous amount. I've started researching

what this could do to his system and it seems that there is evidence of a

correlation between growth spurts, hormones and seizures. Have any of you had

any expereience with this? Apparently this is a huge problem when our children

reach adolescence and can be have serious effects. I'd like to understand it

better before we undergo all the potentially traumatic tests with a neurologist

and certainly before putting  him on anti-seizure medication.

Help please!

Alisa Ackerman (mom to Keenan, 5 yo)

[Guest guest]

Hello,

My son does it with CLO, any kind of vit A including micellized, oils (mtc,

flax, etc) and he starts wabbling all over the place, very bad balance looses

eye contact, responds 60%, etc. It was even suggested to me he started

occupational therapy at the beginning of the year.

After two of three weeks of stopping all supplements, he came back. I don't

understand the reason why he does it. Maybe high oxalates, some type of

abdominal pain, viral issues, etc.

Also he gets allergy from the foods he eats, so I need to check from time to

time and remove foods

then I restart supplements slowly and only the ones I am sure are good for him.

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>

> Hello everyone,

>

> I am looking into the connection between growth spurts and seizures. I have

been doing the DAN protocol with my son over the past year and a half with

amazing results, but we just experienced a pretty significant regression which

(thank god) he is now recovering from it seems.

>

> We changed nothing in terms of his diet, supplements etc. and suddenly he

began to display behaviors we had not seen for over a year such as severe, hour

long meltdowns, sleep interruptions, stimming, EXTREME spaciness and clumsiness

(poor body spatial awareness).

>

> Our DAN doctor suggested that he may be having absente seizures and we are

going to be checking that out w/ a neurologist (we've done an EEG before which

was clear).

>

> It so happens that for the past 3-4 months our son has been on a HUGE growth

spurt, eating tons and growing a tremendous amount. I've started researching

what this could do to his system and it seems that there is evidence of a

correlation between growth spurts, hormones and seizures. Have any of you had

any expereience with this? Apparently this is a huge problem when our children

reach adolescence and can be have serious effects. I'd like to understand it

better before we undergo all the potentially traumatic tests with a neurologist

and certainly before putting  him on anti-seizure medication.

>

> Help please!

> Alisa Ackerman (mom to Keenan, 5 yo)

>