Re: DANA Re: Intro & concerned about son's constant eye shutting

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I'd recommend Enzymes for Autism by DeFelice, The Natural Medicine Guide

to Autism by Marohn, Children with Starving Brains by Jaquelyn McCandless,

Candida Albicans by Ray Wunderlich, Leaky Gut Syndrome by Lipski and

Natural Remedies by Conrad LeBeau. We can throw out all the advice, but until

you understand where your child sits biomedically, you won't have a very good

filter or grasp. May cause you to start, stop or not follow through on various

treatments without success. McCandless and DeFelice do an outstanding job of

offering background information that hopefully will give you a few lightbulb

moments where you'll say " oh, that's my child " or " nope that doesn't pertain to

us " . Which is to say you will have a much better idea of which of our

suggestions to take and which to discard. Good luck to you.

DANA Re: Intro & concerned about son's constant eye

shutting

Hi Everyone,

This is my first actual post, but I've been reading and absorbing

everything for about a month now. I've been trying to decide whether

to start enzymes for my 4 year old daughter. She's never been

diagnosed with ASD, but I am almost convinced she falls somewhere in

the spectrum...

She began with this eye rolling, snorting, and head twitching almost

overnight right after Thanksgiving AND began having OCD-like symptoms

and extreme irritability (OCD and irritability never really subsided

since). Actually, the Sunday after Thanksgiving this all began with

very noticeable intensity (I had never observed anything like it with

her before that day). I took her to her ped. who was trying to tell

me it was Tourette's. I wasn't convinced so I did my own research

and read of PANDAS. The ped. did a throat swab which came back pos.

for strep, however, her strep titers never rose. She started having

fever about 2 days after the tics began. She NEVER complained of

sore throat and her bloodwork indicated a virus of some kind

(neutrophils were low and mono and lymphocytes were high). So we

really don't know what she really had...they're now saying perhaps

the strep test was a false positive and it was viral...She was

vaccinated for school on 9/15/06 and honestly, was doing extremely

well prior to vaccines, and has been going downhill since vaccines

(DTP, MMR, and Polio)...long story, sorry.

Anyway, about 2 weeks later the tics started to subside to almost

none (other than something new - plucking fingers) and have recently

returned. She had what appeared to be a stomach virus last week

(vomiting, diarrhea, fever). I had started giving her FloraBear

Probiotics by Renew Life just before she started having tics and the

virus again - so I don't know if it was a form of yeast die-off or

not. She has been on and off antibiotics since birth; repeated ear

infections until tubes at 1 yr. old; recurrent resp. infections;

asthma; skin problems/thrush as a baby (skin issues not nearly as bad

now, other than a recurrent irritation in genital area (I suspect

yeast - she has the classic red ring around her anus -sorry so

graphic) Has anyone ever heard of these probiotics for kids? Any

comments on them or what I should do for my daughter (is this viral

or yeast or both??), please, please let me know.

Thanks to everyone here. All of your experiences and comments have

been very insightful.

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> > Dana,(this is someone different than the one that posted this

first

> > topic) this is what we have been seeing our Nat. doctor for. I

have a

> > son that has blinking/squinting problems. It is non-stop.

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> > When your son was blinking was it constant?

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> I'd like to know this too.

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> I'm the one that posted first on this topic. Thanks Dana for your

> advice. I have increased my son's yeast protocol but so far I have

not

> seen any improvements; he continues to shut/squint his eyes, have

not

> seen any eye rolling but I've noticed he is more sensitive to light

and

> will have a meltdown if anyone turns any lights on; I'm seeing more

ocd

> behaviors as well. The school staff believe is a self-stim, but I'm

not

> convinced. I've made appointment w/eye doctor (neuro-

optholmologist) to

> rule out any eye problems. , is your son sensitive to light

too?

> This is so frustrating!

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