My son Sevyn is four and was diagnosed with autism shortly after his second birthday. Sevyn's Autism was caused by an adverse reaction to the DTap vaccine at 9 months. He was developing normal and after that shot he got a fever and steadly regressed loosing all of his baby babble. He stopped crawling and pulling to stand and started spining and rocking instead. We spent the last two years doing early intervention, GFCF(with many infractions)and ABA. His teachers have helped him so much, but the progress was slow and we'd see him regress quickly without school and constant therapy. He was sleeping only a few hours a night and waking every hour or so screaming, he had chronic diarrhea and was bloated, he would hit us and himself, and despite all of the progress he had made in school he was still barely communicating with us. When we found a local Defeat Autism Now Doctor we knew right away we wanted to work with him and do what we could to bring Sevyn to a place of optimal health. Dr. Matt Freedman sent me information on GFCF and we learned that we were allowing many infractions to take place and that we had been exposing Sevyn to all kinds of hidden sources of Gluten. Finally some guidance with the diet! We had seen improvements from eliminating gluten and casein, but there was so much we didn't know. Now we are also sugar and soy free and much more diligent about being free of gluten and casein. Dr. Freedman also talked with us about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and so we did our research. The proposed benefits seemed too good to be true, also too good not to give it a try! Sevyn had been having seizures before we started HBOT and in our research we found many inspiring stories of recovery from seizures and traumatic brain injury. I am so happy to say that since we started our hourly sessions five days a week in the hyperbaric chamber we haven not seen any seizure like symptoms at all! We have seen so much improvement and progress since the first session! He sleeps more and wakes less, more talking and pointing, more eye contact, improved digestion-including some of his first formed bowel movements! He seems so much more comfortable in his skin and we are too! As his mother I am thrilled with his progress and have also improved in many ways from going in the chamber with him! You can learn more about our journey on our face book page at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/299194/42924368?m=c20bb5a8 I keep a journal here and post updates and my research as I find it. Autism is Reversible! Recovery is happening!!
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7MamaLove 2 years ago
Thank you! I'l post another video soon! He's continued to progress amazingly!!
7MamaLove 2 years ago