Re: Reasons for Biomed Treatment

February 18, 2008

I want to prefce this with we don't know for sure metals are at play.

My son was never sick but on the few times he was uninfected fluid

remained in his ears. He had off and on days last year after

progressing in speech. He also was a picky eater and his sister, who

was always a great eater, stopped wanting to eat. I checked with

therapists and specialists for feeding stuff, swallow, etc. but his

stuff was intermittent. Bottom line: the intermittent stuff and

progress when I limited milk solely to get more food intake, told us

something allergy or metabolic was going on. That pointed me to more

specialist. I then found out our water had 25 or 27 times the safe

levels of fluoride, a metal trapper, in it. That is what made me

think metal. Have not done much about it other than diet but that is

what made us think metal. We have seen such progress that I am not

sure where to go from here. Still stuck on that.Wisdom of

thing.

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> Hey all,

> So, I'm wondering what clues you guys came across in recognizing

there were additional

> factors in play.

>

> It seems like 's only area for concern is the speech. He

has never had any ear

> infections, has only been sick a handful of times (knock on wood!),

and doesn't have any

> food intolerances that I know of.

>

> Could I be missing something? What were the clues that gave it

away for you all? He's a

> pretty good eater, or at least used to be, it's definitely

progressing toward that toddler

> diet of less and less foods! How did you recognize food

intolerances, GI problems, or

> food allergies that didn't cause outright reactions?

>

> Also, I've noticed a lot of talk about metals and whatnot. I'm not

fully up to speed on that

> topic, but are there noticeable symptoms of metal toxicity other

than the speech? Or do

> you rely solely on labs for determining that?

>

> Also, do DAN! docs treat patients who have apraxia, but aren't on

the spectrum?

>

> I look forward to the day when I can answer more questions than I

ask!

>

February 18, 2008

We call them DAN's, but most of them treat lots of different kids,

including those with ADHD, APD, and apraxia. It's just a protocol

that has been developed over time. The 4-A's book by Bock is the

first/best one that really connects multiple conditions (autism,

ADHD, asthma, allergies).

We definitely had some obvious signs, but some were not at all

obvious. My son had just two ear infections that I know about. (He

was undersensitive to pain, so we discovered both of them by

accident. One, he had a doctor appointment for a different reason.

the other appointment wasn't even his. He was climbing the walls and

misbehaving terribly at his brother's appointment, so on a whim I

asked the doctor to check his ears -- flaming infection!) He also

had a lot of congestion, but only during the cold months. I didn't

connect the dots for a long time, and visits to the allergist came up

with nothing. Now we know that he has some auditory processing

issues and he is sensitive to dairy. Surprise!

He also had soft BM's all the time, so the GI problems were more

obvious.

I always tell people that sometimes kids with speech delays are

lucky. We look at all their medical and developmental issues a lot

more closely because of the lack of speech. Other kids' issues lay

quietly until they cause problems at school. My daughter has a

friend who was diagnosed with a language processing problem in second

grade -- only after she was having big academic struggles. We are

hoping to avoid that by aggressively tackling these issues early.

My big, usually unanswered question is, " what is the origin of the

problem? " I keep solving problems without knowing the cause, and

this bugs me! Fish oil helped the speech. Enzymes helped the GI

issues. Dairy free diet helps the behavior and (I think) the

auditory issues. Great! But why all the problems in the first

place? The Bock book really helps connect the dots. I wish he

called it the 6-A's. I'd like to know what he thinks about auditory

processing and apraxia.

in NJ

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