Today his system is on a good track !.His behavior is remarkable. This is what worked for us, and I wished I would have used this early on. Mirilax works wonders or a fiber you can add to any drinks the child likes, in severe cases like my son Polyethylene, Glycol worked it is a glorified Mirilax. ( track your kids diet= for a few months and give that to your Doctor. try taking out certian foods. give warm baths to help comfort levels, back rubs are necessary too and leg rubs toxins build in the mucles and it helps to get them released. I noticed behavior worsened when we went on day 5 or 6 with our a BM, We give him now Acidophilus and BIfidum, It is not a drug but like a high dose of Yougert, comes in a chew able or can be a powder hidden in things like pudding or what the child drinks,Our theroy is this may have help restore the gut floor, Early on we did not take away dairy or any of those things ( I wish we would have>) but I susspect if we do try now , we will see even a more marked success. In my oppinion many labled with these spectrums are having allergy issues, ( all my kids also have seasonal allergies.) When you are 2 years of age, Children can not say “Hey my stomach hurts” In stead they roll on the floor or head bang, rock or throw tantrums, I have worked with elderly, I notice even in the elderly that when constipation hits it dramaticly changes there world It would for any person. Long term retention of stool makes the system toxic. Not a good feeling. After my son’s GI constipation was stablized we noticed a DRAMATIC change in his concentration. and ability to focus. and to articulate what was going on.

I have documented the pollution levels of our surrounding area, the history of clean up and where we live in proxcimity to 3 chemical sites. We live in a area with Pollution contamination problems, Cross the board, may of our family members have passed with cancer, our chemical foot prints are effecting our over all genetics, Mercury concentrations in the Plecenta have been documented to reach high levels in the fetus, resulting in immuno-suppression and allergies and Di Dysbiosis, We are trying to put out mutiple fire’s with out addressing the arsonist, says Dr Gary Coller.at the Center of Integrative Health Care, Zeeland Mich, He documeted his findings and put out this information in 2004, HIs work is clinical validated. After vactionations and my son transitioned from to breast milk to milk and cerial is when the constipation realy started, During pregnancy I did Un fortunatley consume a generous ammount of fish from a near by lake and that out of Lake Michigan.My husband fished and I thought that was a good source of food. ( I did not eat that much with my other 2 children, almost no fish when finding this out. ) when we come to discover that those lakes had high contaminations of Lead and Mercury at the time. I believe we may want to eliminate the spark of diseases that in my oppinion is contamination of our food and water sources, I think exposure to such things effect the human system, and of course if you live in differnt areas you will get diffrent variations of issues.

Children with autism have been found to have:

Mitochondrial dysfunction
Brain Inflammation
GI imbalance and inflammation

So why isn’t the medical community screening ASD kids for these underlying problems??
Youi canot therpaise away an unerlying medical problem.

My autistic son’s constipation onset at three and 1/2 years of age. It was horrific. Hospitalizations. Enemas not working. Seizure meds not working because of the constipation. Then a GI doc did an MRI and found that my son had a tethered spinal cord (at around seven intermittent limping began, and severe pain with urination and urinary accidents – all signs of TC in addition to constipation). Surgery in Oct. at nine years of age and now his GI function is normal! His constant aggression is finally gone and he functions well in school. How different things could have been if this were found earlier!

Around the time my son was diagnosed with tethered cord Facebook started lighting up like a switchboard with moms talking about how their autistic child had been diagnosed with tethered cord. I thought it was too many to be coincidence so I asked son’s neurosurgeon if he does these surgeries more on children with autism than typical children and he said yes, he does see it in autistics more, but he doesn’t know why. Perhaps AS could fund a case study?

The world IS round, let us now please move on to pinning down treatments!!

http://www.treatingautism.co.uk/features/570/do-treatments-for-autism-work

Health providers simply thought parents were over reporting? This report explains the odd behavior of neuropsychologists and developmental pediatricians when parents complain of GI issues, immune issues, metabolic issues, etc. I hope this report helps the awareness of doctors regarding the health issues that are challenging children.

What are the findings of the gastroenterologist in the report? Which diet and which medications do not contribute to GI distress and what is the remedy if they do cause distress?

The DSM diagnosis excludes any atypical behaviors that are caused by physical pain such as GI, immune, metabolic distress. Will this report direct children in need of help to a gastroenterologist for relief before a referral to a psychologist for ABA? It is very likely that GI issues cause atypical behaviors.

Would a neuropsychiatrist-biologist know how to treat digestive distress?

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Somehow I jumped right over your post before but now that I’ve seen it I’m with Millie…spot on! We’ve created such a complicated minefield of politically correct terms that we, as a community, often use to beat people with who are truly only trying to figure out what in the world is going on with all of this “Not autism/retarded/special needs/looks like/handicapped/etc” kids.

Forever the ability of the races and the sexes to discuss and debate has been retarded (gasp) because people have fallen silent for fear of speaking using less than the most currently accepted terms for things that make little difference. This nonsense causes tons of pain, it polarizes instead of unites people. How I hope that we’ll do better when it comes to our Autistic families…

Dwayne

While I am not aware of studies on use of probiotics, intuitively it would make sense that probiotics would help if indeed intestinal bacteria are involved in autism. However, the effect of probiotics in any particular disease is strain and dose specific. All probiotics are not created the same and it is not prudent to draw sweeping conclusions about efficacy of probiotics based on response or lack of response to any particular probiotic strain. .http://goo.gl/qHMIR

Gut bacteria and the genes related to digestive enzymes are at the interphase linking gut to autism. http://wp.me/p1WoF9-1r

Much more research is need to confirm or refute whether the circumstantial evidence is merely an association or represents cause-effect relationship.