10 days off and back on Valtrex again!

July 13, 2006

I took my son 3 yr old son off of Valtrex after about 8 months of use.

He

showed no regression after stopping. I let his body rest and gave him a 2 day

high dose 225,000 iu vitamin A therapy as kind of a challenge to see how

much virus was really left. I was really surprised to find that he had a rash!

He had little white dots appear above his lip and a dime sized red sore on his

inner thigh with little bumps in it. So I decided to start him on the valtrex

yesterday. He had the rosy cheeks come back! His teacher commented on

how calm and social he was. He also started saying 2 words together,

Tonight he said Brown Bear Brown Brown Bear What do you see and named

all of the animals in the book. It was a lttle hard to understand, but who

cares? This was HUGE! He has has major apraxia type issues. I also need to

mention that I have also increased his GABA and CCK supplementation.

GABA is very much linked to speech so this might have something to do with

the language gain

From this, I think I've learned that if the virus is not completely supressed it

can

continue to build up or exist in the body after Valtrex is stopped even if a

developmental regression isn't noticed. I decided to put him back on the

valtrex to ensure that this virus is supressed.

Stan- have you ever done a challenge dose after stopping valtrex? Do you

do any type of maintenance dose of an anti-viral?

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