Hi - I'm new to this forum, but am glad I found it! My son has autism and while we were testing for celiac (which my hubby's family has) and dairy allergy we discovered that my daughter is milk-allergic. We have been gluten-free, casein-free for about a year, and it has helped the autism dramatically. It also keeps the zoned-out milk allergy response in check for my girl. In March, we started seeing a St. Louis based DAN! practioner, and began the screening for vitamins, minerals, and toxicity from heavy metals, as well as yeast/bacterial overgrowth in my son's intestines. Turns out he was severely calcium and folic acid deficient, as well as a slew of other nutrients. We also started with the methyl-b12 injections every other day, and these too had a dramatic effect on him. Additionally he had a severe intestinal overgrowth of Clostridia and yeast. We cleared all that stuff out and began addressing the nutritional deficiencies. Our DAN! doctor is very anti-chelation, however we did need to address the heavy metals (which we track through a "hair elements" test through xxxxxxx xxxx/chicago, which shows the level of excretion of heavy metal for the past 4-6 weeks. This is apparently a better measure of the output of heavy metals, as the metals don't tend to show in urine/stool for some unknown reason.) So we are using a series of homeopathic supplements/remedies by "energetix" that have been super effective in helping the body to absorb nutrients at the cellular level and cleansing the body of the heavy metals. One note - the body MUST be in good nutritional state prior to using these so they work optimally. These homeopathics help the body (with the nutrients being supported concurrently) to displace all the toxicity with the good nutrition (vitamins, minerals, etc.) that is supposed to be in there at the cellular level. We've seen a dramatic improvement in my son's behaviors, and overall health. He now looks "on"... very aware, very engaged, and very interested in all going on around him. What can I say - he's 5 years! We still have a ways to go, but he's made such good progress, I'm very excited.
I stumbled upon this forum while in search of information on Food Coloring Allergy, as I now suspect my daughter is allergic to 'blue' food coloring. That - in addition to the milk and penicillin allergy - will be the proverbial 'icing on the cake'. Oh well - I need to give her a week or so "off" of all artificial colors and then will try giving her something blue - like blue Kool-aid, and see what happens. Yesterday, her reaction was SO unexpected! and it was to a purple "Starburst Fruit Chew" and they are pretty much allergy-free and mostly "safe"... figures, she'd be the exception.