~Autism~
Autistic boy
K - K... was born a healthy beautiful baby boy in April '98. He progressed normally, at 12
months he was walking, at 15 months he had about 10 words, and at 18 months he was
still progressing. We were counting our blessings. We kept K...'s vaccinations up to date.
With each shot he would get extremely sick, running a fever and develop a croup coughing.
Since our doctor had told this might happen, we thought that the reaction was just part of
the process. K... started a slow descent into his own little world. His behavior was on a
steady decline, with bizarre behaviors and decreasing speech. K... was sinking into
Autism, a developmental disability we knew little about. He now had our full attention. We
noticed K... started becoming extremely finicky when it came to food. He would only eat
chicken nuggets, pizza, and drink milk. K... was drinking about 8 cups of milk a day, along
with watching 6 hours of movies a day. We thought, "milk, does a body good". That's the
slogan we grew up with, how could milk be bad for him. K... frequently had bright red
cheeks. His stool was always runny (diarrhea). He had problems sleeping every other
night. He would no longer make eye contact. You could yell his name and he would not
look at you. He started to walk on his tiptoes. He would walk back and forth behind our
plaid couch focusing on the pattern with his eyes. He would drop puzzles pieces in front of
his eyes and run his fingers and toys slowly in front of his eyes. This is called
self-stimming. He would line his toys up.
The little boy we could take anywhere and liked to go all the time, started to scream with
any transition. We couldn't go anywhere without an outburst. The only way to control his
outburst was a sipper cup, full of milk. We had to have the milk close at hand. When I
would go to the park with my girlfriend and her kids there where many times I would ask
for some milk and joke, we need to give K... his drug. If only I knew what I was saying. K...
was diagnosed January 2001; he was 2 years 8 months old. We were in disbelief.
We had his blood drawn right then and there, to check for the fragile X chromosome. The
doctor told us K...'s test returned negative, but that doesn't mean he is not Autistic. That
was enough for us to start our fight. Through February and March we started private
speech with an extraordinary woman, O.T. services through the school system, and our
research. I started reading and came across Karyn Seroussi's book (Unraveling The
Mystery Of Autism And PDD) and was intrigued and couldn't put it down. Miles (Karyn's
son) and K... had many similarities. As I was reading I told my husband, if this helps K...
2% we are going to do it. We discovered K... actually had severe food allergies. This was
evident by immediately removing milk from his diet; we noticed he started making eye
contact with us. After two weeks of being on the diet, K... accidentally drank his sister's
milk. Before I could say a word he spit it out like a cat remembering bad food. Within three
weeks of O.T. therapy I told the therapist "My son is back." She looked at me with
sympathy. We slowly started taking foods containing gluten (a wheat by product) away. We
also eliminated soy and corn. When the corn was reintroduced K... immediately had
diarrhea. We found K... had the same reaction to soy as well. We introduced supplements
such as DMG, SuperNuThera, and Probiotic Primadophilus, and slowly noticed
improvements in K...'s speech and language. We started the diet in full force April
2001.This was no easy task taking away the foods K... had a craving /addiction for. There
was a fairly dramatic withdrawal reaction; K... woke up in the middle of the night and acted
heavily drugged. He was definitely in a world of his own. He started to drag his forehead
on the carpet. I was in complete tears every night. It was hard to watch my baby go through
this. The initial die off only lasted one long week. After a month K... was catching up. He
was now more consistent with his eye contact. He started to point at things he wanted, if
not ask for it by name. His speech was good but rote with
some echolalia. He still had some autistic behaviors from time to time. There were many
times we wanted to give up. We did get to a point where the behaviors became very
minimal. We knew we had to do the GF/CF diet 100%.
One big issue for K... was transition. Before the diet K...would scream every time we left
the house to go somewhere. We couldn't take his picture without an outburst. Our friends
couldn't come to the house without K... screaming at them or at us. I thought to myself, "I
can not have this child run our lives". So I started taking him to the mall a lot, exposing him
to activities he didn't like to do, and eliminated all TV. We got to the point where we could
go into the mall without an outburst, but not any stores. Then certain stores were okay.
Now he can go in any store. He asks to go somewhere or do something every day.His
speech is no longer rote or echolalia.
After a few months on this strict diet we felt something else was missing. We came
across a glyconutritional supplement. There are case studies of glyconutrients helping
Autistic/AD(H)D children. When we implemented this supplement we couldn't believe the
positive effect it had on K.... We noticed immediate improvement in K...'s cognitive ability,
his eye contact, his gross and fine motor skills, his imaginative play, and his social
interaction. For example, we noticed K... alternating his feet on the stairs spontaneously.
Which means he was using both sides of his brain. But the behaviors were still present.
The reason was that his body was cleansing. The life of a new blood cell is every four
months. And after four months on this supplement his behaviors completely subsided.
This was clearly another die-off reaction. K... loves to play Board Games, Animals in the
Jungle, Dinosaurs, Trains, Dress-up, and "Little People".He rides a two wheeler with
training wheels. He draws beautiful pictures and much, much more. He swallows tablets,
knows what he can and can't eat, and lets us put the glyconutritional supplement powders
in his food and water.
We feel that K... is fully aware of what has happened to him. We think he might have some
memories of his food intolerance and knows how much better he feels with his
supplements. When you give K... his tablets, he pops them in his mouth and in the same
breath says, "thank you". K... is definitely one special kid. On December 10, 2001 we took
K... back to the doctor that diagnosed him. When she walked into the exam room K... said,
"Hello doctor." She acted as if he wasn't the same child she diagnosed a year ago.
Through the next two hours of tests, she looked at him in disbelief. K... had recovered: he
had shed all of the traits that labeled him Autistic. He is at age level in social, self-help,
and motor skills. He was two months behind in language skills with an extraordinary
vocabulary (5-7 year old).
We attribute K...'s success to K..., glyconutrients, Karyn Seroussi's book, and definitely
hard work. K... is in a regular preschool, plays with his school and neighborhood friends.
He has scored average or above average on all evaluation tests and has no Autistic traits.
Former Seattle Seahawks Football Player
Finds Help with Autistic Twin Boys
Our 7-year-old autistic twin boys began taking glyconutrients six weeks ago. I am already
seeing differences in their behavior. They are talking more and what they say is much
clearer. The boys are more aware of things around them. They have
better eye contact. They're even playing with each other a little bit more.
Our most severely autistic son sat through a one-hour and 45-minute therapy session last
week without any autistic behavior. He's never done that!
I was skeptical about the benefits of glyconutrients because we hear of so many new
things for autism. We decided not to say anything to the boys' therapist, their speech
pathologist, our support group, and friends.
After the first month, it was undeniable that glyconutrients were helping not only our boys
but the whole family. We all take them. After only one week on the glyconutrients, the
speech pathologist asked what I was doing differently.The therapist started noticing their
speech was clearer and they were working better.
Last week we had our friends over for dinner. It was the FIRST time ever to sit through a
dinner without any behaviors. We were amazed.
We are thrilled at the results we are seeing. We have actually found joy in being their
parents. Curt & Ana Warner
Autistic son
J - My son J.... was diagnosed with Autism. He has been taking glyconutritionals and the
glyconutritional gummy bears daily for a couple years and is now 10 years old. He started
the glyconutritional products at age 7. He has done wonderfully on these products. He was
fully potty trained at age 7, made a 2 & 3/4 cognitive verbal leap after being on the products
for a full year. We feel that the long-term test results which revealed the wonderful gain
was at least partially due (if not totally due) to his taking the products because never before
did he make such a tremendous gain in one year's time. We've noticed that any time we
ran out of the glyconutritional product, his behaviours seemed to deteriorate and so we've
kept him on the products pretty regularly over the last 3 years. Today, he is fully included
and is repeating second grade in a public school. He loves computers, reading,
horseback riding. Hates writing!!! Loves swimming. He is too verbal at times, and still has
pronominal reversals (she for he, etc.). I find myself thinking how do we "turn him off"
when he starts gabbing a lot. His newest interests are NASCAR and as of a few weeks
ago, now basketball. He LOVES DISNEY TOO! He knows all the names of the NASCAR
racers and their car numbers, etc.
He is slow to learn math, but we're working on it. He will always have autism, but we're
very happy with his progress during the last 3 years. He has very supportive parents who
truly are devoted to helping him overcome his challenges!!