As the years have passed since Alex was first diagnosed with autism back in 1996, one concept has slowly but surely stood out as being perhaps the most important in my search for answers. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I have come to believe that bacterial dysbiosis [...]
I went to the Defeat Autism Now! Conference this past weekend. While I enjoyed several talks, especially Dr. Welch’s talk on secretin and oxytocin and Dr. Rossignol’s talk on treatments and evidence-based medicine, the highlight for me was Dr. Jeremy Nicholson’s talk on the link between bad gut flora and autism. My personal opinion is [...]
It’s been quite some time since I last posted simply because I’ve had nothing to report. Alex has been stable except for one major downturn – his dermotillomania (compulsive skin picking and scratching) went completely out of control. Starting in late January or so, he suddenly started to scratch his shoulders to the point of [...]
Now I’m really confused.
Back last winter, about 10 months ago, I started Alex on minocycline, a tetracycline antibiotic, because he had developed some pretty severe acne. I was particularly interested in trying this medication because it is also a pretty powerful anti-inflammatory, and actually crosses the blood-brain barrier, reducing glial cell activation in the brain. [...]
It is mid-November and the dead leaves lay thick, moist and mouldy all around my house. This traditionally is the rock-bottom time of the year for my boys. For the first 10 years of Alex’s life, I think I probably spent more time mopping up his bodily excrements than I did sleeping. Even last year, after [...]
It has now been 2 full years since I started the boys on helminthic therapy. Overall, I can certainly say that it has been one of the two best treatments for Alex that I have ever tried. I believe this to be the case with Liam as well, but of course with him being typically [...]
Both boys are doing very well. No side effects at all. Most exciting is that Alex has now been off TSO for 9 weeks, and has no regression at all.
The initial dose of TTO was very small – only 50 ova. The next dose, which will hopefully arrive this week or next, will be bigger [...]
On Friday, June 26, my sons and I downed some human whip worms – YUM! Delicious. 50 each for starters. My most sincere hope is that they replace the TSO, the cost of which is breaking the bank. One week later and I have nothing but good to report. (It has been 4 weeks since [...]
Yesterday was a beautiful day here in NY. My mother and I decided to go sit outside to enjoy the sun. Alex, overhearing us, jumped off the couch saying that he wanted “outside” too. That was astounding enough. Generally speaking, he’s only too happy to lie on the couch lethargically!
Out we went. Half joking, I [...]
As I know I have reported before, 9 months ago Alex had never written in any kind of meaninful way. If you handed him a crayon, the most he’d do is scribble back and forth. Two years ago, we spent an entire year just trying him to write Xs and Os, but finally gave up [...]