Biomedical Treatment

I know that not all children with Autism / ADHD / etc respond to Biomedical Treatment...  

All I know for sure is that the Lord has led me to biomedical treatment of Tyler and it has worked for him.  The SAME NHS Community Paediatrician who started hinting that Tyler had Autism at the age of 4, and at the age of 5 wanted us to have Tyler formally assessed for it, did a complete 180 one year later, 12 months of which he was Gluten-Free and 6 months of which he was also Dairy-Free, saying, “you could back me into a corner and I wouldn’t put that child forward for diagnosis” (Praise the Lord!).  

Through only diet and supplements, under the direction of a private doctor and Nutritionist who specialise in Environmental Medicine for children on the Autistic Spectrum, we have continued to see his immune system go from practically nothing to being stronger than our own, his nutritional levels go up tremendously and his energy levels increase to a level where he can now keep up with kids his own age.  And more…

• ·         At almost the age of 5 years old, Tyler still had never had a solid poo.  After going Gluten-Free, his poos became solid, leading to Tyler being able to tell when he needed the toilet and whether it was wee or poo, meaning we were FINALLY able to successfully (and quickly) potty-train Tyler,

• ·         Saw a return of ‘eye-contact’ 3 months after going Gluten-Free, and another 3 months later he started to progress academically in one school term 4-5 times as much as the entire previous school year (likely due to the morphine-like peptides that had been entering his blood stream via damaged intestinal walls and travelling to his brain,

• ·         Within 2 weeks of being Dairy-Free, Tyler’s daily runny nose dried up completely and his VERY smelly wind virtually disappeared… then he spoke his first complete sentence, completely unprompted but very well thought-out and relevant, at more than 5 and a half years of age,

• ·         Unable to make it through to lunchtime at school because he would get so tired, resulting in “defiance, sometimes leading to aggression”, Tyler was suddenly able to keep going after a minor adjustment to his morning snack,

• ·         Since starting supplements, we’ve seen his sensory needs continue to reduce, his social interaction continue to increase and his gross and fine motor skills increase,

• ·         Recently avoided an ECG, because there was worry of seizures, by starting Mitochondrial Cycle (how the body uses energy) Support.

There is a DIY questionnaire-type assessment, which is now commonly used by parents and practitioners of children on the Autistic Spectrum in both US and UK (ATEC), and though we didn’t start them until last year, we’ve literally “watched” as his score drop from 36 to 26 since we started doing the assessment, plus the benefits we saw before then… less than 30 now places him in the highest functioning 10% of children on the Autistic Spectrum and “Such children have high chances of leading fully independent lives”.

Using Biomedical Treatment has been like “peeling away the layers of Autism” and we are now able to see both what Tyler is really capable of and also where his more specific needs lie.  As I write this, I am hoping that an appointment at our General Practitioner (GP) next week will result in investigations into Auditory Processing Disorder, a much more defined and accurate description of Tyler’s needs at the moment than ‘Autism’.  Then again, I have suspicions that this too has a root “medical” cause, and I have a theory which would be treatable if it is the case, but I won’t go into that now. :)

More about vaccinations

There's loads going around at the moment about vaccinations, with an outbreak of Measles in California.  

I've just read what I think to be a good article... he's certainly done more research than I have.

He makes 6 points:
1. Vaccines can prevent disease. And, they can also cause harm.
2. A public health technique, spearheaded by the CDC, is to create “Concern, Anxiety, and Worry” like your seeing now.
3. There will be a permanent supply of “outbreaks” because the vaccines for measles and pertussis have efficacy issues.
4. We give way more vaccines than other first world countries and way more vaccines than we did in the 1980s (and neurological disorders are epidemic today).
5. The debate about whether or not vaccines cause Autism is far from over.
6. Do your research. Form your own opinions. Vaccinate in a way that you deem to be safe and appropriate for your child.

The original article was removed, but he has posted his thoughts on his blog at https://jbhandleyblog.com/ 

Vaccinations vs Autism?

While I agree with the statement that vaccinations do not "cause" Autism, I cannot ignore that there may be a "connection". Vaccinations ARE "completely safe" IF your child is completely

healthy and their body, especially their immune system, is functioning properly.  And this is true of all vaccinations, not just the MMR all-in-one, because of the very nature of how they work.  The whole concept of a vaccination is completely dependent on the body doing with it what it was designed to do... i.e. ignore the bad stuff (preservatives, etc) and use the good stuff to create a reaction which produces immunity to that specific pathogen.

So, what happens if the body is unable to deal with (excrete, process, etc) the bad stuff?

And, what happens if the immune system is compromised at the time of injection... is the good stuff (pathogens intended to create a positive immune response) able to do its job and, if not, what happens instead?

Now, let's take Tyler for example... extreme Jaundice from birth to 1 week of age tells me that his Methylation Cycle (how the body processes/excretes toxins) as either 
a) compromised from birth and/or 
b) that it was overwhelmed shortly after birth. 
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we gave him?

He was on antibiotics at least twice a year for his first 3-4 years of life, usually due to ear infections resulting from a simple cold, which also indicates that 
a) his immune system was not able to fight off the simple cold and/or 
b) that he was having his "good bacteria" killed off as well as the "bad bacteria" roughly twice a year during that period. 
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we later gave him and/or did the vaccinations contribute to this in any way?

We also now know that, somewhere along the line, Tyler's intestinal tract was damaged (the intestinal tract is a prominent part of our immune system), though we may never know when and why this damage occurred
... did this affect how Tyler's body dealt with the vaccinations we later gave him and/or did the vaccinations contribute to this in any way?

Is there an alternative to the current vaccination schedule without risking our own's children health and development? I think there is, but it would go completely against the current NHS and AMA "position" on vaccinations so I'm not expecting it to happen anytime soon. 
We are asked if our child is "well" when we take them in for vaccinations, but I was one of those parents who thought, "sure, he's well, no coughing or temperature that I know of he's well, no coughing or temperature that I know of" and didn't realise that what they really should have asked was, “is your child's immune system fully functioning?”. I wish they would look at each child's history and take into account any signs of a compromised immune system, and then test the immune system of any that might be BEFORE vaccinating.

Is there an alternative to the current vaccination schedule without risking the health of those they come into contact with from the diseases themselves? There are two options:
1. Delay the vaccinations and spread them out more, and/or
2. Pay to have combined vaccinations given separately.

I agree that "justifying exposing children to these life threatening illnesses" is a major consideration.

Do I blame the vaccinations? I acknowledge that there was already a problem (compromised immunity and methylation), but if I could go back to then, knowing what I know now, I would NOT have given them to him without a test of his immune system first to prove that his body was "well" enough to process the vaccination properly.  If it was not well enough, then I would have delayed them and spread them out more.

Tyler had his initial 3 vaccinations but, ironically, we didn't give Tyler the 3-in-1 MMR because my Aunt felt so strongly about it that she paid for us to give him the individual ones.  However, each of these individual ones were still going into a body that was not able to process them correctly.

Now, there WAS a 'noticeable' change in Tyler after his "pre-school booster" (DTaP/IPV)… less than a month later we were referred to a Community Paediatrician for further assessment and it was 6 months later that we were first told that he might be Autistic, when 6 months previous to the booster he only had a mild speech delay that the professionals still felt he would “grow out of”. He went from reciting a learned Bible Verse to babbling most of the time, and we completely lost eye contact and interaction from him having had some previously.  

I strongly suspect that, had we given Tyler the 3-in-1, I could very well have been in the same position as the parents who claim that MMR 'caused' their child's Autism, because we would very likely have seen such a difference within days of the vaccination being given, and at such a time that we had not yet noticed, or put together in the bigger picture, the other less noticeable signs (irregular bowel movements, weak immune system, etc)

It is interesting to note that law courts have ruled that vaccinations caused a more specific condition (Encephalopathy) in children who have been labelled as Autistic, and my question is how many of their ‘features’ which led to the label of Autism were actually caused by the other condition (e.g. due to a swollen brain rather than simply by ‘Autism’), and would they have been diagnosed as Autistic if they didn’t have the other condition… so the vaccination(s) didn’t cause the Autism, but did the vaccination(s) cause a problem that were part of a pathway to the diagnosis of Autism (and I include a plural there because it’s likely that the other vaccinations which the child received were adding to the problem but just didn’t cause as drastic of a change as the MMR, as well as other environmental factors)?

I guess I'm still unsure about whether what we are dealing with in Tyler and the hundreds of kids now being diagnosed with ASD is actually Autism, in the form in which it was originally defined in 1943 anyway. It seems to me that in many cases we are dealing with problems that "look like" Autism but that doesn't necessarily mean that it actually is. This is one of the reasons that we went against the advice of the professionals and didn't have him formally assessed. There was a paper written recently, admittedly by an organisation that promotes treating Autism with biomedical treatment, which points out a number of examples where “features” of ‘Autism’ are being helped simply by addressing medical needs in them.  

Let’s go back to Tyler… I will never know which, if any, of his “environmental” circumstances could have had anything to do with his later situation.  While I was pregnant I had food poisoning from fish, had a mercury-based Amalgam filling put in and flew on a plane; then in labour I was given Pitosin to speed things up.  Sound familiar?  Of course it does, because many mothers experienced one or more of these.  Again, it’s not going to be any one of them, but COULD any or some of them have contributed to the problem or started the ball rolling towards the problem.  I don’t bring these things up out of guilt as there was no way for me to have known at the time, but simply to illustrate that this issue is actually much bigger than just vaccinations.  

According to the Health Visitors, Tyler was developing ‘normally’ until the age of 4 when he was not anymore. We have been working and praying hard ever since to bring him back.. the good news, he is being healed. (read the post entitled Biomedical Treatment for more info on that...)

However, there are some for whom Biomedical Treatment don't seem to work... perhaps these children do have the Autism that one is "born with" and cannot be avoided regardless of exposures or weaknesses.  

One of the reasons that I don't expect the NHS or AMA to start seeing and treating Autism biomedically is that every single child is different (hence the expanded name, Autism Spectrum) and will therefore have to be assessed and 'treated' individually.  There is no single answer or pill, and that can mean more cost (and less 'kickbacks' for the doctor and health service if you believe what is said about that, but that's a whole different story).

So, these are my thoughts and questions.  I'm not about to publish them publicly because I am not informed enough and they are just thoughts and questions, not answers.  However, I hope you don't mind that I shared them with you.