Guest guest Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Anita, Stan, listmates, I guess everybody is currently looking into anti-virals, the different approaches, the meaning behind those and it is not easy to make an informed decision! I chelated my son for 2 years (oral DMSA/ALA, low and frequent doses) and he recovered from autism. It was fairly easy at that time (2003) to decide on the chelation protocol. It is so different with anti-viral protocols! I feel lost. I resumed chelation and started anti-virals because my son's health became miserable (absence seizures, gut, allergies, growth failure, etc...) and I currently do garlic, OLE, OoO (oil of oregano), virastop. I am not doing very high dose of anything right now although it took me one month to work up on this (500 mg OLE, 8 VS, 2 cloves of garlic, 3 drops of OoO daily). Right now, my dilemma is to either increase dosages or add new things like valtrex (that's the only thing that my DAN doctor knows about anti-virals and she told me it does not cause yeast so I won't need a prescription for Diflucan!) that is patiently sitting in my kitchen cabinet. Meanwhile, I am trying to boost his immune system and I am also looking into Amy Yasko's work because she is the only one who can give me possible answers on some of my son's very strange labs. Well, what I am trying to say is that nobody knows what's best, it is a trial and error thing. I wish there were clear and defined protocols but not yet, so I guess we all have to go with our gut feeling, the specific of our children, and what we feel confortable doing. Parent reports are also crucial so we can all share our experiences. As a side note, I found out recently that OoO seem to have anti-viral properties and I noticed it helps reducing my son's absence seizures. Vit E also helps. > > > > Stan, > > > > I'm not suggesting all antivirals at once. But I am suggesting (as > > Andy Cutler has suggested, and I respect his opinion enormously) > > that antivirals work by different mechanisms, and that fact can be > > used to our benefit. Also, most of our kids would seem to have more > > than one virus at work in them, perhaps even viruses we haven't > > identified as problematic (our bodies are absolutely filled with > > viruses--the vast majority cause no problems whatsoever). While > > researching this, I spoke to a number of parents who had tried > > either Valtrex or the other one I can never remember how to spell, > > but with little result. > > > > All these things lead me to believe that for a good number of our > > kids, a multiple approach is best. And not one after another, or in > > rotation--which could lead to resistance--but all at once. Starting > > one at a time, of course, just adding them in. I chose the ones I > > chose based on what they are supposed to do. VS to attack all > > viruses through digesting them. Lauricidin because it can work on > > measles, which I believe to be a problem. And OLE, because it uses > > a different mechanism again, and had been used successfully by > > people like Dana for a very long time. Sambucol because it seems to > > do well with flu viruses, which change all the time. > > > > Anita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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