Re: France reports ASD kids improving using Antibx

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Hmmm. I think the longest we have been on a antibiotic is around 6 weeks due to Pandas. Would six months have yielded more results? Also I would be curious how they keep yeast at bay everyone knows antibiotics kill the good and the bad bacteria. And what about becoming immune to the treatment? I've always understood that a long term treatment with antibiotics is a bad thing because you may become immune to them and when you really need them for a acute illness they won't work. Isn't that why doctors stopped prescribing them for every minor illness?

Still it's interesting, my son has yet another ear infection (he's 16) just now as a matter of fact, and I would never have known had I not taken my daughter in to the see the doctor for a sore throat and just had her look at Matt (just in case). He was also complaining of a really bad headache all day that was not helped with Motrin, the allergist blamed it on the weather change the pediatrician thought it could be due to a sinus infection and ear infection. I'd be curious to hear what family of antibiotics they were using.

Trina

 

The news report is in French, but the YouTube video has English subtitles that were added by the French moderator of EuroLyme.http://lymedisease.org/news/lyme_disease_views/news-treating-autism-antibiotics.html

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About a year after my son regressed, he caught his first bout of pneumonia.  It was bad.  It came on suddenly.  He was playing outside.  He and another little boy who was walking with his grandmother had discovered a puddle, and both boys were stomping their feet in it.

After we had gone back home, my son had a tiny little cough. We went to bed but were awakened and he had a high fever and was wheezing.  He had been sick often since regression, but this time was worse.  We went to the emergency room, and after running tests, the doc treated us as if we had neglected our son, " Your son has a very SIGNIFICANT pneumonia in his left lung " in a tone that sounded like he were accusing us of ignoring it for days or something.

They put our son on IM Rocephan for two days and then followed up wtih ten days of oral Omnicef.  Keep in mind that our son had said NO words since regression.  On the fourth day of treatment, our son sat up and said EVERY word he had known before regression!  My husband and I looked at it other in disbelief, but we started to cry for joy as we thought we had our son back!  He talked!  He talked!

I ran to the Internet and found a study where many children with autism had been treated with a broad spectrum antibiotic: vancomycin IV.  Every chld recieving the actual antibiotic (not the placebo) improved in symptoms.  But then the study went onto say that once the antibiotics was stopped, each child regressed to baseline.  BASELINE!  Then I cried.  We thought we had him back, but we were going to lose him again?

The whole time he was on the antibiotic he said his words, but once the antibiotics were stopped, he began to regress in speech and alertness.  However, he did not regress to baseline.  He retained some one syllable utterances.  Yes, I showed the study to a neurologist and I wasnted to explore this idea, but the docs treated me like I was from some other planet.

But that point was a turning point for me.  I had been skeptical about biomedup to that point, even though we had started some biomed, and I had heard about the diet (but was skeptical about that too).  But when this happened after the antibiotics I believed there was something biomedical going on and that his condition need not be permanent, and so then I started studying my head off and we started the gf diet and on and on.

Due to the immune dysfunction our son suffered following regression, he was put on antibiotics roughly every two weeks for years.  He did always seem to improve while on antibiotics, but I always worried about him building up a tolerance or them not having an effect.   Eventually the milder ones quit working for our son, and his infections became more virulent with staph and cellulitis after insect bites, strep, andmyriad other infections.

Pretty soon he needed the broad spectrum " tier one " antibiotics to fight his infections which cost between 500 - 600 dollars a small bottle. Of course those weren't covered by insurance.This past year, since we started the AC Protocol, is the first year since regression that our son's immune system is functioning more normally, and he has not had to be on antibiotics.

For the amazing transformation we saw following Rocephan, and the fact that he did not regress all the way to baseline, I could see why a parent might want to try a course of a broad spectrum antibiotic.  It seems it jump started recovery in our son.

But unfortunately they cannot be on antibiotics in perpetuity. That would hold its own set of consequences.Haven