All About Autism
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mashy:
They will teach phonics in school too. Mine was taught in school. I think if u aren't very good with phonics, better don't teach in case you teach the wrong things. Just do simple reading everyday will do.[/quote]For my boy, he mastered basic phonics very fast when he was 3. I let him watch Leapfrog Phonics DVD as he could follow the songs and phonetic sounds. But he took a looong time to grasp blending which I started end of last year. For my girl, I started her with Starfall and she recognise all the basic phonics by 2 and she loves to fiddle with the mouse to play the phonics games. When I taught my boy, I would google for consonents and learn the sounds too. I work very closely with his cc's teacher and she would whatsapp me to explain phonetic rules which I may not understand.
Try this website:slmkhoo:
[quote=\"helplessmum3\"]Fizz,
Oh my thanks. Then I must try tO teach my son phonics..
Any good teaching materials for phonics for my son? DVD or bOoks ?
http://www.starfall.com/
I didn't use it for my own kids but have heard good reviews about it. -
ImMeeMee:
Medicated antifungals and antibacterials such as diflucan, vancomycin, nystatin should be taken with doc's guidance. Becos they can be hard on liver as they will raise the liver enzymes.
lavendery, any safety issues relating to the use of antifungals or antibacterials?
On the other hand, if you do natural antifungals/antibacterials such as OLE (Olive Leaf Extract), GSE (Grapefruit seed extract), OoO (oil of oregano), goldenseal etc. These are natural herbs and hence they are quite safe in my own opinion. -
Lavendery, please tell me how do u know that kefir is not suitable for your child. My son has watery stool for past week but I am not sure due to eating unclean food or cleansing effect from kefir. Cos I am also experiencing v strong herxheimer reaction from kefir.
Must be quite frustrating for u to find out that your child cannot drink bed coconut water kefir. But how about milk kefir? I bet u were a science student
cos I am having a hard time to absorb information esp with very cheem terminology -
ImMeeMee, it is not easy to do 100%gfcf n u did it for a year plus :salute: too much work, too many temptation. Esp if there r siblings in the family.
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ArielMermaid:
omg, i actually like fish a lot and i ate a lot of them during pregnancy. cod fish and normal not high in mercury fishes, i dont know why my son still becomes like that.
Hi ImMeeMee,ImMeeMee:
Arielmermaid
Thanks for the comprehensive write up. Yes DAN is not considered mainstream and hence there is some skepticism.
Just for my learning, is there a reason why the mercury level in you child is high? It's a heavy metal that doesnt accumulate unless through consumption. How does it get into the body?
I guess it was because I ate a lot of fish, and my son started eating fish ever since he could take solid food. Perhaps he was born with impaired ability to excrete mercury, so the mercury keeps accumulating. Also, the more mercury you have in your body, the harder it is for the body to excrete mercury. So, its a chicken and egg story =(
may i know how to get the hair test done for mercury level check? -
jme:
ImMeeMee, it is not easy to do 100%gfcf n u did it for a year plus :salute: too much work, too many temptation. Esp if there r siblings in the family.
Yes, it was mainly home cooked food for my daughter then. Bread, milk and biscuits/snacks had to be bought from specialty shops. At that time, she was still young so we did not expose her to burgers, pizzas, french fries and all sorts of junk. And being the autistic self as she was, she did not ask.
I have a good domestic helper who is able to cook well. So she would cook and pack for us if we were having meals outside home. We took a couple of short holidays during that time and had to lug additional luggage to carry her pre-prepared raw food materials and the utensils. Before each trip my domestic helper and I would work out the menu for each day and I would do the cooking for her.
As she grew and became more aware, we found that it was more difficult to fend the line of not allowing her to eat normal food. That plus the mealtime interactions and her progress, we decided to let go. It was a jittery period, cos I always had the fear of her regression.
Actually GFCF diet is a very healthy diet, and its a pity that she couldnt continue. Now she eats all sorts of things just like us, and her favorites are pizza and french fries ... :roll: -
helplessmum3:
Unfortunately i'm not very sure, its best to get back to your doctor. Maybe you might want to remove out either one of the supplements (eg fish oil) to check to see if lacto gg is the cause of the sudden outbreak?Lavendry, my boy oso take lacto gg for his bad rashes recently also add in fish oil..
my boy whole body rashes like mad, isit someting w DAN thingy?
Perhaps the brand doesn't agree with his body? Sometimes some reaction is good, it means that the body is reacting to it. However too much rashes might mean something else.. -
jme:
Lavendery, please tell me how do u know that kefir is not suitable for your child. My son has watery stool for past week but I am not sure due to eating unclean food or cleansing effect from kefir. Cos I am also experiencing v strong herxheimer reaction from kefir.
Must be quite frustrating for u to find out that your child cannot drink bed coconut water kefir. But how about milk kefir? I bet u were a science student cos I am having a hard time to absorb information esp with very cheem terminology
My girl behaviour starts to regress in classroom. Going back to her wandering behaviour in classroom, cannot sit down on her chair to focus and perform table-task. Hence quickly look back at the BED kefir sachet and realised that it contains streps. After stopping for 2 weeks, she did not improve. So DAN had to put her on antibiotics to wipe out everything in her stomach so that she can behave back to normal.
Watery stool might means that the amount of coconut kefir is too much for him. Did the watery stool occur suddenly? How much is he drinking? Perhaps you might want to consider back off for a while, lower down the amount of coconut kefir to see if it improves.
I also experiencing very strong die-off reaction towards kefir, it cause me dizziness, bloated stomach, migraine etc. I can only tolerate very small amount of kefir. A few small sip is the max i can tolerate.
She cannot take milk kefir cos it contains casein. She's on strict organic gfcfefsf + modified BED diet. I'm not a science student
I started reading up on January this year for the sake of my girl. I agree that the biomed stuffs needs a lot of reading.
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Lavendery and Jme
No offense, but am just thinking do all these strict diet and biomed really help with the kids behaviour? If we want our child to integrate in a social setting, would it backfire if we put them on restrictive diet? What I mean is, they will appear distinctively different from other kids as they can’t join them for party treats etc. For example, if other kid offer our kid biscuits, we always have to decline as it contains stuff that our kid can’t eat. -
lavendery:
Hi Lavendery,jme:
Arielmermaid, for my son, mercury is v low but cadmium off the chart. V high in molybdenum n potassium. I asked for dmsa n dmps as I read with many good reviews. But my Dan doc refused to give citing they r a form of drug n rather give my son ch77 or zeolite. In think different doc, different school of thought.
His bowel was really stinko too. N bloated stomach. Improve lots after I changed his diet.
To minimize dustmite, I have stopped letting him sleeping on mattresses. I will lay playmat follow by charcoal pad then bed sheet on the floor. Almost every other day, I will bring the pad to sun it. Wash the bed sheet every week. Service the zircon frequently n make sure no mould growing in the unit.
Probiotic - I realized both u n lavendery give more than one type of probiotic. May I know why? My son is given only dds probiotic. One cap in the morning n one cap at night. After reading up so much on gut healing, I realized probiotic is really important. I just started my son on coconut water kefir less than a month. My husband was amazed with it after seeing my son's behavior. It acts as a booster to all the improvement that he has. I wished I knew of it existence long ago
I gave 3 types of probiotics mainly because of different specific strains. Our kids here need minimum 200 CFU daily as the maintenance dose. I read that it's always good to rotate between different brands of probiotics so that the body do not get resistance to the particular stains in long run.
I add Culturelle Lacto GG as her daily maintenance probiotics becos of my girl's clostridia and streps in her comprehensive stool test. Lacto GG helps to kill the spores of clostridia. Whereas Boulardii is a good probiotic yeast which fight against the bad yeast.
When I'm putting my girl on antifungal and antibacterial protocol, I would increase the dosage of probiotics to 600CFU or 800CFU depending on situation. However my girl do not do well on BED coconut kefir due to the streps strain inside, hence I am force to stop doing kefir by July. Otherwise I would continue to do BED coconut kefir on her.
Where can i get BED coconut kefir? Googled but can't seem to find it anywhere.
Thanks in advance
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