New: For and Darci

[Guest guest]

Welcome both to the group. Please note that with the following comments I am

not speaking for the group but my own findings.

Here you will find discussion of autism treatment ranging from beginning level

to advance. I joined the group last spring and have learned so much.

Let me begin by saying if your information about autism came from your child's

pediatrician, you can be convinced that you have been supplied with little to

no useful info and a lot of presumptions.

Many people who treat their children via natural interventions, i.e enzymes,

nutritional changes, special diet, etc believe that autism is an autoimmune

disorder that is caused by a combination of genetic susceptibility and

environmental toxins, exposure to heavy metals, pesticide, excessive use of

antibotics post and/or prenatal as well as childhood vaccines which has

contained world's second most dangerous neurotoxin, Mercury.

The genetic susceptibility does not mean that your child was doomed to be

autistic or is doomed to stay autistic. It means that he/she is more

vulnerable to autism if exposed to toxic agents and environmental factors.

Furthermore, many of us here know that autism is treatable, can be

significantly helped and even reversed through the right combination of

interventions.

The first step is to address the issue of gut, digestion etc.

proper dietary changes such as removal of artificial color and flavor and

chemically treated food is very important.

Almost all children on the spectrum will benefit from digestive enzymes

because they help the proper break down of food. Enhance the absorption of

nutrients and help heal the gut injuries that so many of our children suffer

from.

In addition many kids can not properly break down proteins from Gluten (wheat,

oats, barley...) and Casein (milk, cheese, yogurt...) and soy and need to

remove those in order for their bodies and mind to function better. A large

percentage of our children break down these proteins improperly to short chain

amino acids that gets picked up by the opiate receptors of the brain and the

result is an addiction to these foods that cause brain fog, gazing,

insensitivity to pain (as if they are on narcotic drugs) to just name a few.

Removing these food brings about a noticeable cognitive, sleep as well as gut

improvements in many of these kids.

A subset of these children are capable of breaking these foods properly with

the aid of digestive enzymes like Houston's AFP Peptizide and can avoid the

Gluten Free and Casein Free (GFCF) diet. Other kids not only remove these food

but a host of other food that they are reactive to. My son is on 4 types of

digestive enzymes and we have removed all nuts (but peanut only on rotational

basis), soy, and many other thing. He is doing great and the more food we have

removed the better he eats and he has also expanded his diet.

There are also many other interventions we discuss here (biomedical).

I highly recommend every parent of autistic children to read " Children with

Starving Brains " by Dr. Jaqulyn McCandless and also book mark the following

websites as reference and use them to learn about autism from those who are

actually treating it with success and not the mainstream doctors.

http://generationrescue.org

http://tacanow.com

http://www.autismwebsite.com/ari/index.htm

Hope this helps,

Haleh