autism cycle

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Yes. for some kids the immune system is too weak to do chelation. The

children are constantly sick. Gut issues, inflammation, allergies,

viruses etc.. When one thing improves, another thing happens. Start

chelation and remove the mercury but get a yeast overgrowth or make it

worse. Then the behavior gets worse too and the parent is dealing with

schools and therapists to fix it. My twins recovered almost entirely

biomedically. I did therapy myself because what I was doing was free and

it was helping them. I was just working by instinct. Anyway, after going

to a conference with all the therapists explaining what they do and why

I just came up with this idea that even though each therapist, or doctor

knows their own part of the puzzle. The trick for parents to even start

biomed is to explain to the therapists that using food as a reward can

cause problems down the road. Everyone keeps telling me that their

therapist doesn't use food as a reward and in my opinion because the

parent broke the cycle, their child is improving. Also their child may

not have had the viruses and inflammation that others do that take years

to heal. The point is for the parents who just go along with the experts

and don't question them they may not see all the conflicting advice and

therefore they give up before they really ever started. I see that

happen a lot where there are parents who say they wanted to start the

diet, except their nutritionist insisted that the only way to get the

fat was from milk so they won't do the diet at all. I didn't want to to

go into all the other medical reasons that the diet doesn't work. It

makes it too complicated.

Lynne,

I concur - we've been doing bio med and GFCF for years - ABA 30 hours a

week for 6 years, chelation (no HBOT though) - and my ds is no where

near recovered - hell, I'd settle for a few words! Its draining

emotionally and financially chasing everyhing and being the expert on

everything too. In my spare time I work full-time ( & pt), take care of

NT kiddo and try to be a good wife and housecleaner (okay failing one

the last two!)

Diane

>

> Hi ,

>

> Although there is lots of conflicting advice and many wrong turns that

> parents can make, one of the reasons that not all kids recover is the

severity

> of the injury to the immune system, brain, and whole body. GF/CF has

> recovered many kids. SCD has recovered many. HBOT has also, and even

ABA has

> done it alone, however, there are so many families that have done the

> biomedical interventions consistently for years and are still

struggling. The

> puzzle as a symbol for autism is an excellent symbol. It shows that they

> are all unique with different problems and abilities. It also shows

that we

> don't quite have all the pieces for everyone's puzzle.

>

> I do commend your work though because you are showing that the

journey has

> so much conflicting advice from experts and that parents need to be the

> ones who are informed and make the decisions.

>

> Lynne

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Walsh

Mom to Robbie and

Identical twins mostly recovered from autism.