Head banging/slapping

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My severe asd son, now 6 1/2 yrs. has always been a head banger and

slapper usually when he is frustrated and wants attention.

Lately, his head slapping and banging has gotten much much worse. He

gave himself a bruise on his face the other day from banging his

head into the wall. It's driving me CRAZY!!! I really don't believe

it's from headaches. His sleeping has gotten much, MUCH worse

lately, as well. He does have a problem with yeast, but I'm not

possitive that's the problem now. I have been giving him GSE,

kirkman's pro-bio gold pro-biotics, and some OoO.

Any advice on the head banging and slapping, please?

Oh, advice on sleeping would also be greatly appreciated, we

recently tried him on a prescription for sleeping- not clonidine,

according to my DAN, it was something milder. We gave it to him for

3 days, and it totally messed him up, not to mention that it didn't

help his sleeping- it gave him severe diahreah. My husband took one,

and it messed him up for 3 days, so we stopped giving them to .

I have tried every natural sleep aid that I have heard of, and

nothing has worked. I didn't want to go the prescription route, but

I was desperate, and out of ideas, and they didn't work, so now, I

don't know what to do.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks.

Amber.