How to eliminate my son's visual stims?

January 27, 2004

Hi, everyone,

I am a new member. My son has overgrowth yeast and 28 kinds of food

allergy and the heavy metal exposure. I have done chelating for my

son 6 rounds. He is 4 years and 10 months old and about 55 pounds. I

think he has had some improvement. But he still has visual stims and

obsessive-compulsive disorder. And visual stims seem more and more

serious. He has had visual stims issues since about age 1 1/2. For

example, he cannot play appropriately for more than a few minutes

with toys that have a lot of little pieces. He just aligns the

pieces, sort them by color, size or something else, stir them up or

move them around. This problem seriously affects his life. And he

always gets angry because he can't satisfy his needs of visual stims.

I hope that I can get help from you to guide me how to help my son

and how to cure his visual stims. Thanks.

Helen in China

January 27, 2004

Helen:

Is you son on a strict CFGF diet, or soy free, corn free?

I found the food allergy test could be only used as a guide line. We

do eliminate all the food showed positive in the test from the diet.

According to the test result, my child's reaction is negative to

gluten. But we do see a huge benefit when removing the gluten. If she

took something by accident, she would be fuzzier than normal. So far,

the most dramatic improvement on my child has come from the diet

itself.

Since your son has a yeast overgrowth problem, you should use sugar

as little as possible. Be aware of the food that contains a large

amount of sugar such as snacks.

Is he getting enough vitamin suppliments? My child's experience with

Vitamin has been very positive so far. The quality of the vitamins do

play an important role though.

Is there any chance that you could get a copy of Dr. McCandless's

book " Children the starving Brains " ? She did mention that: you had

better treat the gut issue first before starting the chelation. Also,

make sure the body have enough nutritions. Otherwise, some kids could

be very sick when doing chelation. Once the gut issue is fixed, it

will be much easier to see the benefit of metal removal.

Take care!

January 28, 2004

,

Yes, my son is on a strict CFGF diet, and soy free, casein free,

gluten free except rice. And he is getting enough vitamin. My son has

done chelating with DMSA 3 rounds, then he has done with DMSA+ALA as

Andy 's schedule. Is the vitamin A useful for removing my son's visal

stims?

Best wishes

Helen

> Helen:

>

> Is you son on a strict CFGF diet, or soy free, corn free?

> I found the food allergy test could be only used as a guide line.

We

> do eliminate all the food showed positive in the test from the

diet.

> According to the test result, my child's reaction is negative to

> gluten. But we do see a huge benefit when removing the gluten. If

she

> took something by accident, she would be fuzzier than normal. So

far,

> the most dramatic improvement on my child has come from the diet

> itself.

> Since your son has a yeast overgrowth problem, you should use sugar

> as little as possible. Be aware of the food that contains a large

> amount of sugar such as snacks.

> Is he getting enough vitamin suppliments? My child's experience

with

> Vitamin has been very positive so far. The quality of the vitamins

do

> play an important role though.

> Is there any chance that you could get a copy of Dr. McCandless's

> book " Children the starving Brains " ? She did mention that: you had

> better treat the gut issue first before starting the chelation.

Also,

> make sure the body have enough nutritions. Otherwise, some kids

could

> be very sick when doing chelation. Once the gut issue is fixed, it

> will be much easier to see the benefit of metal removal.

>

> Take care!

>

January 28, 2004

>>But he still has visual stims and

> obsessive-compulsive disorder. And visual stims seem more and more

> serious. He has had visual stims issues since about age 1 1/2. For

> example, he cannot play appropriately for more than a few minutes

> with toys that have a lot of little pieces. He just aligns the

> pieces, sort them by color, size or something else, stir them up or

> move them around. This problem seriously affects his life.

My son's visuals needed high dose vitamin A to eliminate them

http://www.danasview.net/vitamina.htm

Dana

January 28, 2004

Dana (or anyone else who knows)

The only Twinlab Allergy A I can find is 10,000IU per capsule - is this the one

you used? If so, I'm wondering why you used this rather than Thorne's which is