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Order David Kirby's book "Evidence of Harm" about the chilling possibility that a vaccine additive may be fueling an apparent epidemic of autism, ADD, speech delay and other disorders in children (good book for all parents).  A discussion list has been created in response to the growing interest in the book and the issues it chronicles.

Possible Treatments for Children's Disorders, such as Autism, ADHD, Speech Delays, and Other Disorders (This webpage may be found at http://eric.atspace.com/treatments.htm or from the homepage www.autism.2truth.com)

Note: some of these supplements are good for everybody.  Ex. Fish oil is good for the elderly

Several blood, urine, stool, and hair tests are at the following laboratories:

First, let me introduce myself.  My name is Eric.  I'm from Tennessee.  I was diagnosed with autism at the age of 14 when I was in the 7th grade in school.  I'm now 24.  My parents put me on a dairy/casein and wheat/gluten free diet that started the summer after my 10th grade year (June, 1998).  After I started school in the fall, I noticed an improvement in my behavior and my grades.  My parents put me on DMG several months earlier and also Luvox in February or March, 1998.  My parents put me on both at around the same time, which is not recommended to determine which helps.  I think the DMG was useful.  I recommend to test the peptides for casein and gluten in the body to determine if the diet is a must or not.  I was tested by Dr. Robert Cade, M.D.  (By the way, he's the doctor that invented Gatorade.)  His website is:  www.medicine.ufl.edu/neph/cade.shtml

Other websites are:  www.autisme.net/alerg-milk.html and www.autisme.net/alerg-fooddiet.html

The test is also at Great Plains Laboratory, I'm not sure about Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory and Doctor's Data Inc.

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Ever heard of the saying "You are what you eat."  That's so true!  The foods you eat may have an affect in behavior and mood in people.  Kids with learning disabilities can possibly improve with a change of diet.  Even if you're an adult with autism not on that diet, it's not to late.  I understand it's unbelievable that change of diet can improve behavior or learning, but it's those proteins casein (from dairy) and gluten (from wheat, oats, barley, and rye) that are the problem.  Those proteins may cause the symptoms of the following:

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Schizophrenia, Autism, Crohn's Disease, Ear Infections (dairy/milk free), Neurological Disorders, Chronic Diseases, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Celiac Disease (gluten free), Bowel Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Autoimmune Disorders, Leaky Gut Syndrome, Central Nervous System Disorders, Immune System Dysfunction, GI Disorders, Diarrhea (dairy free), Constipation (dairy free), Depression, Alzheimer's Disease, Down Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Apraxia, Asperger Syndrome, Dysbiosis, Fibromyalgia, Fragile X Syndrome, Hyperlexia, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Psychoses, Rett Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Mental Retardation, Children with behavior problems, Developmental Delays, or any other related conditions

The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism (towards the bottom of page)

I don't really recommend prescription medication or antidepressants, but I understand Ritalin is a common medication for ADHD, but there are risks and sick effects from Ritalin, for more information visit www.ritalindeath.com and click here for some more links.

Here are some articles/links:

A good website to check out would be www.notmilk.com that explains the health benefits of a non-dairy diet.

Other websites are: www.milksucks.com and www.nomilk.com

Most doctors aren't educated about dairy causing problems or dairy being the cause.

Dairy free milk, dairy free ice cream (Tofutti, Rice Dream, and Soy are some brands.), and gluten free breads are available, which you may find them in your local store, or health food stores, or you can order foods online.  Vancesfoods.com has a very good dairy free milk mix you can order on their site (You can also order a 2 Quart Mixer/Server/Pitcher from them if you need one.)  The milk has a good creamy taste.  Click here for some recipes and tips!

My mother told me I cried a lot when I was a baby more then my older brother and my parents didn't know why then, but now we all believe that my stomach was upset because of dairy products.  My parents told me I through up my baby formula sometimes, but not all the time.  If you have a baby and if he/she cries a lot, I mean a lot, then there's something wrong because babies don't cry for no reason.  If they're not wet and just ate and just had a drink.  Why are they crying?  I was crying because the baby formula was upsetting my stomach.  If they cry a lot, I suggest looking into the matter.  I suggest ordering the peptides for casein and gluten blood or urine test.

That test is worth checking out because you could be poisoning your child's brain.  If your doctor says the test isn't worth it, DON'T believe him/her, just order the test and see what the results say.  Parents of autistic children should consider every possible treatment to help.  If you can't afford that test, I guess go ahead and start the diet and see if you notice improvement.

My mom has a friend with children with food allergies, but with me and other autistics, we don't have food allergies.  Food allergies is when you get sick from the food, and through up!  I never got sick, (besides sometimes my baby formula), maybe upset stomach and behavior problems, but not sick.  The technical term for what I have is peptides to casein and gluten.

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I know that diet helps me because since I've been on the diet, every time I cheat, I feel it in my brain.  When I was in school in 11th grade, I had a hard time finding foods that are dairy/wheat free at lunch, sometimes I didn't have a choice unless I brought my lunch, which not that many people did in high school.  I remember 1 day in lunch there was a choice between spaghetti, pizza or cheeseburgers. What am I supposed to eat?!  Well, I ate pizza and every bite I took of that pizza, I felt my brain acting different.  It doesn't take long for those bad proteins in dairy/wheat to translate into my brain, because I really felt it happening.  In the following class I coughed 2 times probably because my body and my digestion system was not used to dairy/wheat.  So, that means those proteins must have an affect in my brain!  I don't like being on the diet, but I'm sticking to it because I know it helps me!

My mom said she couldn't believe that I actually can compose things like this website that I couldn't compose anything or had a very hard time and my mom had to help me with my homework when I was in middle school and early years of high school before I started the diet (summer of 1998, after my 10th grade year).  I think the dairy and wheat made me into a Learning Disability and put me in Special Ed and Resource classes!  (Special classes for kids that need help learning.)  That dairy and wheat is brain poisoning, in my opinion.  As for me, my mind was like a box before I started the diet.

I graduated from high school with a regular diploma (instead of a special ed diploma) when I finally passed the required tests from the state, which were an English test and a Math test.  I passed the English test the 7th time I took it, which was in the 11th grade several months after I started the diet not counting the time I cheated!  I honestly don't think I would have passed that test if I never went on the diet!  I think the diet made me smarter!  Can you believe that what you eat can affect how smart you are or your behavior?

That English test took me twice as long to complete then all the other students.  I guess autistic people are slow.  Being slow doesn't affect how smart you are because I passed that test!  I believe it took me 7 hours in 2 days to complete that test.  I didn't really "took my time" when I was taking that test, that just how long it took me to completely read the test and answer each question with my best answer without just guessing.  I scored a 73 out of a min. passing score of a 70.  The times I took it before it was always very close like 68, 69, etc.

The math test I passed the very first time; scored 80 out of min. passing of 70.  That was the test most students would fail.  I was always good at math.  Not as good as Rain Man!  For those of you who haven't seen the movie Rain Man, he counted a spilled box of toothpicks on the floor in just a few seconds by just looking at them!  I don't think I would ever be able to do that!  Nor count cards!

I'm glad my father read about that diet or I wouldn't be where I'm at today.  I probably would still be autistic, sometimes I think I'm not autistic anymore after I started the diet.  I know that the dairy and wheat affecting my brain is hard to believe.  I read I may have Leaky Gut Syndrome.  How you ever heard of that?  It's hard to explain so please click here.  I read the cause of the leaky gut, or in other words, the cause for being on a dairy-wheat FREE diet could be mercury that was in vaccinations or antimony and arsenic that's in many baby products.

The casein blocked my brain cells and caused me to be not as smart as I could be up to 10th grade in school.  The casein and gluten caused me to act somewhat drunk, so that's why I'm on this diet, so I won't be drunk all my life!  haha.

I read from an article from Kirkmanlabs, the dairy and wheat leaked out of my gut down the wrong blood stream up to my brain instead of staying in my gut. (my own words)

Check out this web page from the Autism Research Unit at the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom for scientific information about the diet.

Being autistic vs. normal is not the same.  Probably all people with autism or related disorder think their okay, but their parents might think something is wrong with them, and the child doesn't understand why because I didn't understand why my Dad printed off and read a bunch of autism research after I was diagnose, but now I know he was trying to help me and who knows where I'll be today if I've never started that diet.

Sometimes, a little wheat or dairy (like whey) is EVERYWHERE, so it's hard to buy foods in the store or at fast food places.  I found out the Burger King onion rings and fries and the Arby's and Hardee's fries have a coating of "flour" on them.  The McDonald's fries now have dairy and wheat in the oil used to make the fries.  The Captain D's fries are okay, but not the country style fish (it's made with flour) and the hushpuppy too and also the batter fish is made with milk.  The Baked fish and rice are okay, so that's what I eat when I eat there.  The Wendy's fries are not okay either.

I've heard some people with autism also besides being dairy and wheat FREE has to be soy, egg, corn, yeast, and sugar FREE!  I saw that from this Yahoo! Group.

Digestive enzymes may also help.  Click here to read more.

Currently there isn't a cure for autism or related disorder, but Cure Autism Now (CAN) organization is doing research for a cure, but the diet can be considered somewhat as a cure.  To me it felt like my brain became bigger after several months of being on the diet.  I started doing better in school and didn't get into trouble anymore.

My father read about that diet during my 10th grade year in high school.  He read about this lab that I sent my urine to get tested to see if I was infected by casein (dairy) & gluten (wheat).  So, I had to send a bottom full of a day of urine, so I did that and the results were close, so I got the blood test done, sent that to the lab, and when we got the results in the mail I was highly positive on casein (dairy) and positive on gluten (wheat).  So, I started that diet the following summer.  We were hoping it would just be one or the other (dairy or wheat) but unfortunately it was both.  We were actually hoping it would be the wheat because milk was all I drank!  But to our surprise it was both and the dairy was more important to cut out of my diet because the results were higher.

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Please be sure to sign my guestbook with your comments, questions, opinions, thoughts, etc. before you leave my site.  Especially sign if you're a parent of a child with autism or any of the disorders or conditions above.  Also if you already started the dairy and/or gluten free diet and see improvement, please let me know in my guestbook!

Signing a guestbook is very easy and can be completely anonymous.  You don't have to provide your full name or e-mail address, but if you want me to e-mail you back, I'll need your e-mail address (but I can remove it from the guestbook afterwards if you want), or if you have problems you can e-mail me at ericalsome@hotmail.com

PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT MY SITE AND THIS DIET.  A GOOD RESOURCE TO CHECK OUT IS www.notmilk.com

More Links  (If you have a website or personal homepage, please add it to my Free Links page.)

Vances Foods (dairy free milk) | Miss Robens (dairy and gluten/wheat free food) | Gluten & Casein (dairy) Free Info & Support | www.newdiets.com | Great Gluten-Free Foods Online | Special Diets | Gluten-Free Mall

Dietary Intervention | Dana's View (autism recovery stories; good resource) | Talk About Curing Autism | Son Recovered from Autism | Ooops... Wrong Planet Syndrome | Autism Autoimmunity Project | www.causeofautism.com

Autism Research Unit, Great Britain

Schafer Autism Report (news - worldwide) | Schafer Autism Report News Archives

Future Horizons (books, videos/DVD's) | Autism Today (online courses) | Autism/Asperger Publishing Co. | Super Healthy Kids | Other Books | Amazon.com

National Alliance For Autism Research | Cure Autism Now | Unlocking Autism | Autism Society of American | National Autism Association | Mom's On A Mission for Autism

To find out ways to help children and adults with autism or related disorders, check out my "how to help" page.

Generation Rescue | NoMercury.org | Mercury Exposure | Moms Against Mercury | SafeMinds | Autism and Mercury Yahoo! Group

Vaccination Debate | Vaccination and SIDS | Think Twice Global Vaccine Institute | Vaccination News | Vaccine Risk Awareness Network | National Vaccine Information Center | Vaccine / Thimerosal Lawyers | MMR the questions | Delp's Hope Page (vaccines resources) | Kaia's Page

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