Gut problems in NT sibling (long)

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Hello, All!

This is my first post on this message board, although I have been a

member for a few months. I have a four year old daughter with

autism, Audrey (who is being treated at Pfeiffer Treatment Center).

I also have a 15 month old son, , whom we are assuming is

neurotypical. His language development has been on track, great eye

contact, joint attention is there, etc.

My pressing concern today is with . Back in the spring, he

had to take antibiotics for an ear infection. Antibiotics always

give him diarrhea, but this time his BMs did not revert to " normal "

after the round of meds was finished. It was green and mushy, and

often had undigested chunks of food in it. It also had a very

strange, sharp smell -- no matter what he ate. We got him mostly

straightened out in August by giving him lots of yogurt. I was afraid

to experiment with probiotics because he is so young, and I knew our

pediatrician would be no help with this.

Well, now the strange smelling BMs are back, along with some very

aggressive behavior, i.e. frequent screaming, hitting, kicking --

even when he wakes up in the night (which he does so many times that

I lose count). He is also banging his head on anything handy (wall,

floor, furniture, me) when he is angry, which is frequently! Any

small frustration just sets him off. He did some head banging (not

hard, usually) between age 7 mos and 11 mos -- not when he was mad,

but just when he was tired or bored. But its different now -- he is

banging his head HARD this time. Additionally, I found out this

morning that my husband has been giving him straight juice, instead

of half juice and half water. So I'm thinking that some of the gut

symptoms could be caused by the extra sugar in the juice.

My question is this: What could be causing the very sharp, nasty

smell in his stools? Would this indicate yeast? Bad bacteria?

Could this be related to his aggressive behavior and head banging? I

just really need some help here -- any similar experiences out

there? Advice? We are considering having him evaluated at Pfeiffer

when we take Audrey for her follow-up appointment.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Meyer

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you really need to understand if not necessarily do the scd diet.

the bacterial/fungal biofilm in his gut is out of wack and you will

need to do various things to restore it includng enzymes and scd

emphasis ................

no sugar corn soy................ lactose? scd explains about yogurts

having less lactose...........

stool smell is the fermentation product of the gut biofilm and

perhaps specfic things like closidra overgrowth have thier own

characterisitc smell. but bascially theres an abnormal biofilm there

and this also indicates heavy metal retention or toxicity.

> Hello, All!

>

> This is my first post on this message board, although I have been a

> member for a few months. I have a four year old daughter with

> autism, Audrey (who is being treated at Pfeiffer Treatment

Center).

> I also have a 15 month old son, , whom we are assuming is

> neurotypical. His language development has been on track, great

eye

> contact, joint attention is there, etc.

>

> My pressing concern today is with . Back in the spring, he

> had to take antibiotics for an ear infection. Antibiotics always

> give him diarrhea, but this time his BMs did not revert to " normal "

> after the round of meds was finished. It was green and mushy, and

> often had undigested chunks of food in it. It also had a very

> strange, sharp smell -- no matter what he ate. We got him mostly

> straightened out in August by giving him lots of yogurt. I was

afraid

> to experiment with probiotics because he is so young, and I knew

our

> pediatrician would be no help with this.

>

> Well, now the strange smelling BMs are back, along with some very

> aggressive behavior, i.e. frequent screaming, hitting, kicking --

> even when he wakes up in the night (which he does so many times

that

> I lose count). He is also banging his head on anything handy

(wall,

> floor, furniture, me) when he is angry, which is frequently! Any

> small frustration just sets him off. He did some head banging (not

> hard, usually) between age 7 mos and 11 mos -- not when he was mad,

> but just when he was tired or bored. But its different now -- he

is

> banging his head HARD this time. Additionally, I found out this

> morning that my husband has been giving him straight juice, instead

> of half juice and half water. So I'm thinking that some of the gut

> symptoms could be caused by the extra sugar in the juice.

>

> My question is this: What could be causing the very sharp, nasty

> smell in his stools? Would this indicate yeast? Bad bacteria?

> Could this be related to his aggressive behavior and head banging?

I

> just really need some help here -- any similar experiences out

> there? Advice? We are considering having him evaluated at

Pfeiffer

> when we take Audrey for her follow-up appointment.

>

> Thanks in advance for any input.

>

> Meyer

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, don't be afraid to use probio's even though he is that

young. My dad used to be a hospital corpsman in the military and

when I first talked to him about all of this stuff going on with the

kids, he said, you know, doctors USED TO have to prescribe either an

antifungal or a regimen of buttermilk to put the good stuff back in

the gut. That used to be routine. Come to think of it, they stopped

doing that haven't they?

YUP!

So it was " known " by doctors long ago... so do what is right and get

some of the good stuff back to him and work on treating that gut and

getting it back in balance.

W

> Hello, All!

> > Well, now the strange smelling BMs are back, along with some very

> aggressive behavior, i.e. frequent screaming, hitting, kicking --

> even when he wakes up in the night (which he does so many times

that

> I lose count).

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> My question is this: What could be causing the very sharp, nasty

> smell in his stools? Would this indicate yeast? Bad bacteria?

I would suspect first yeast, then bacteria

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

Dana