(jornmatt), a while back you listed the best enzymes for autism...

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I've been searching the archives (trying to avoid asking questions

that have already been asked). I came across a message (#98629) in

which you said " the best options for autism at the moment are:

Lacto plus GlutenEase (Enzymedica products)

Vital-zyme Complete (Klaire labs)

HN-zyme prime and Peptizyde (Houston products)

Carb Digest™ with Isogest (a Kirkman product) plus GlutenEase or

Peptizyde "

Is there an easy way to know which enzymes are best for each child,

short of trying each one? (I'm willing to try each, but if there's a

cheat sheet for the order in which to try them, I'd love to know! ;-)

Here (briefly) is our situation:

Our son, 7.5, adopted from India three years ago, has mercury and lead

issues. He reacts to gluten, casein and phenols. We've been gfcf for

a year, and he'd better (few/no meltdowns, less self-stimming, less

hyper, happier, no more bed wetting), but we're beginning to have diet

compliance issues at school and I'd like to see if we can find a way

to allow him to eat a more normal diet.

Our first DAN! recommended the Kirkman enzymes with bromain and

papain, but my son became hyper beyond belief. We switched to

Houston Enzymes w/o bromain/papain last spring (ZP, Peptizyde and

No-Fenol) and he handled those well (no obvious side effects), but

they didn't seem to mitigate infractions.

They *did* seem to end his bedwetting, though, so we continued them.

We've just used up the last of them. Before I buy more HNI enzymes,

I'd like to try another product to see if we can find a combination of

enzymes that will allow a normal diet (if possible) or, failing that,

a less-restricted diet.

Can you suggest which products to try? I was thinking about

using a combo of Digest Gold (b/c it has higher levels of many of

the enzymes than the HNI product) and No-Fenol for phenol issues,

but I realized that Digest Gold has no DDP-IV. What about combining

Digest Gold, GlutenEase and No-Fenol? Or, is there a better combination?

Thanks for any help you can provide,