Giselle

Hi TSMom, Hermann and Emily! Welcome! Emily, first of all hugs! Your life isn't over - it definitely is a shocker that you think your child is "perfect" and then they have TS. Guess what? Your child is STILL perfect and just happens to have TS. That's all. It's totally manageable and yes you can help the tics, many times not all but lots of them. But your baby is still your baby. And your child really needs you now. You are going to be more diligent in what they eat (find the allergens), and you're going to find any deficiencies and treat them, you're going to root out any yeast or heavy metals and you're going to learn, learn, learn. It's tough at first but then it will get easier and easier. Come here often, ask all that you can, find a good DAN Doctor or Environmental Doctor and most importantly see all that your child is. He's just a little boy (or girl?) and all the things that make him/her your child are still there. You must see those things now and realise now there's just a little extra. It is hard sometimes but you can do this, you can help your baby. Giselle

Zach, first I'm so sorry you are going through this. I'm also sorry about your Mom's condition. It seems when it rains it pours doesn't it? All this stress is probably exacerbating any tics you have. I know I can speak for everyone here that we give you and your Mom huge hugs! What Chemar has told you is perfect - please contact the TSA. In the meantime I know my son, when he's super stressed out, really needs to get exercise - it both gets those endorphins (happy brain chemicals) going as well as gives your body an outlet for the stress. It doesn't cost anything and I think it will really help - just a long walk if you can. Nutritionally, try to stay away from processed foods, especially anything with dyes or artificial sweetners or flavorings - they wreck havoc on tics! Get lots of rest and if you are inclined take some vitamin B12. It is an amazing vitamin to help you with stressful situations. I even carry a gumlet made by Solray that has 1000mcg of B12 for me! But the regular sublingual little lozenges are great too. This vitamin is really inexpensive and very helpful. Lastly - take an epsom salt bath - this really helps with relaxing you and many times Tourettes people (actually lots of people) are magnesium deficient and this gets magnesium into your body quickly - we get a four pound bag at our grocery store for about $2.25. I dump the whole thing in the hot water and my son soaks for 20 minutes - it does wonders for stress and tics. Drink plenty of good water too! Good luck and I will keep you in my daily prayers, Giselle

Hi there, at first my son took Bonnie's vits and seemed to do well but about 4 months into them he started to do worse. He now takes individual nutritionals and supplements. For him the problem was the B6, folic acid, and fish oil. He has a hard time processing B6 but needs it desperately. Instead we give him P5P which is basically B6 broken down a bit more so that his body can use it more readily. The folic acid contraindicts high histamine (which he has) and the fish oil just didn't agree with him (something about choline?) so he's taken borage, flax and now black current to get his omegas. We have a great DAN doctor and Environmental doctor who help us figure these things out. As for taking them? He swallows pills very easily and simply it isn't negotiable - it just is. I tend to be an imaginative person and made up little games when he was balking at the number of pills. If he was groaning I would break into my announcer voice and give a running commentary on "look racing fans, can he do it? He's breaking the world record for number of pills swallowed, 1, 2,.....13" or I'd hum the Jeopardy melody (sorry Merv, no royalties from me), or (his favorite) pretend to be the pills "Oh NO, don't swallow me - Oh, it's not so bad in here, wait, there's a big sliiiiiiiiiide!, sploosh". We have a lot of fun. Yes it takes some energy but less than the energy that is sucked out of me seeing him suffer from his tics. Which, when he's taking his vitamins and supplements, are so minimal or even non-existant. He's also done delayed food allergy testing to find his allergies which we avoid religiously. He sees a chiropractor one or two times per week. And he takes epsom salt baths or has a Kirkman Labs magnesium cream rub each night. Good luck, Giselle

Hi Emily, we found his allergies by having a delayed food allergy test done. It is a blood test and his DAN doctor requested it. My son isn't Autistic but the DAN protocol is amazing - looking for physiological problems that most ignore. DAN stands for Defeat Autism Now. I believe many Environmental doctors will call for the same test. The chiropractor helps immensely. Just seeing a chiro for him doesn't eliminate the tics but it keeps him aligned and hence his immune system benefits - the more he's out of alignment the more slight things effect him. If he's having a particularily painful tic an adjustment always seems to "move" it to a less bothersome place. For example when he was having a horrible neck tic the adjustment seemed to straighten that out and the tics ended up being simple finger crunches (less impactful for sure). Food wise you'd be amazed at what he can eat. Most fruits, meats, eggs, vegetables, and sugar. Potatoes, rice, tapioca, amaranth are all great substitutes when making bready type stuff. There are so many ready made products you just have to read lots of labels. I have an amazing pancake recipe that anyone who tries likes better than the heavy wheat pancakes people know. It is tough though at first - it's second nature for us now. I was so frustrated at first because almost EVERYTHING we knew and loved contained something offensive. Most processed foods are out the window. That first trip to the grocery store was exhausting. I started out making all sorts of mistakes but now know what is safe and what isn't. I make most everything he eats which if you knew me you would laugh at - I HATE TO COOK but do it for my son happily. Eating out is more complex as we've had to find safe things on menus. You have to be the person who asks about all ingredients and asks for special things like instead of fries we ask for fruit (which we gladly pay for but usually they don't make us). I have to bring snacks with us where ever we go. Its amazing how the kids end up asking Hoyt for some of his stuff because he usually has all sorts of yummy cut up fruit, brownies and cupcakes (homemade) and even candy which I order on line. It only has sugar and no corn syrup - it tastes amazing, like old fashioned candy used to! It is overwhelming but I urge you to do it - it is amazing how much it helps. I mean I really understood why I had to do this when I realized what exactly the delayed food allergy test was testing - I didn't have a choice. The test shows the person's body mounting antibodies to the various food allergens. ANTIBODIES! That means the body is fighting lets say bananas like it fights the flu or polio or some other sickness. How taxing that must be for his little body to be fighting off a sickness each time I give him a slice of pizza. I wouldn't hand him a tetanus lollilpop or a flu sandwich but that was in essense what I was doing by continueing to feed him his allergens. By taking those stresses off his immune system he does so much better. It isn't going to happen overnight - the knowledge comes bit by bit, by trial and error. Take your time and don't give up. Read all that you can here and over at Brain Talk. Finding a DAN doc or Environmental doc is really necessary as they can really help guide you through all this and order various tests. Good luck and welcome! Giselle

Hi Carolyn, we have great success with Lauracidin which is a brand of Monolaurin - made from coconut (in case you're allergic). But it is the lipid portion. As Chemar says, it is antifungal (great for yeast), antiviral, antibacterial. It comes as tiny beads, you take a scoop and swallow with water - very bitter if chewed! I find that the best way for Hoyt to keep in tip top shape is to get lots of rest (he needs more than most as you probably do too, especially chelating) and I also make sure he gets acidophilus/bifidus - by keeping his gut healthy he is able to fight more readily. Lastly, his DAN doctor suggested that his lacking immune system was partially related to lagging adrenal function. He told me that to give it a little boost he should have a small amount of caffeinated tea in the morning. I was amazed how well that worked, still if he has a late night he most always gets a canker sore - it's that touch and go. We found a great natural product for this called Canker Melts by Oral Health. Good luck, Giselle

We are sooooo much better! Upon reflection he decided it wasn't really voices as much as a loud kind of noise. We had a huge discussion about getting angry and that it was O.K. He really liked that - he's a bottler - but told me he didn't know what that had to do with his ear - I laughed. He also mostly noticed it when he lay his head down and said that it was changing to a far away ringing. I think it was left over from being so sick. I told him to tell me whenever it happens and he said he would. He told me a couple of times and hasn't since. I really think it was fluid left over. Time will tell. His tics are back to nothing again and it seems that whatever was bothering him (I think something was blooming) is no longer doing so. Of course we still adhere to the gluten, corn, soy, dairy, dye free diet - it's actually a way of life now - everyone wants my pancake/waffle/tortilla recipe after they've tried them - so light and yummy! If I introduce any of his allergens in any quantity he reacts with tics (especially corn). We still see a chiropractor twice a week. He just actually came in and I asked him "are you hearing that loud ringing noise?" He said "no, not since that time long ago" and off he dashed outside again (California weather is gorgeous today and he's creating some sort of masterpiece outside!) Thanks to everyone for their support!!!! Giselle and Hoyt

Hi Sunshine! We are sooooo much better! Upon reflection he decided it wasn't really voices as much as a loud kind of noise. We had a huge discussion about getting angry and that it was O.K. He really liked that - he's a bottler - but told me he didn't know what that had to do with his ear - I laughed. He also mostly noticed it when he lay his head down and said that it was changing to a far away ringing. I think it was left over from being so sick. I told him to tell me whenever it happens and he said he would. He told me a couple of times and hasn't since. I really think it was fluid left over. Time will tell. His tics are back to nothing again and it seems that whatever was bothering him (I think something was blooming) is no longer doing so. Of course we still adhere to the gluten, corn, soy, dairy, dye free diet - it's actually a way of life now - everyone wants my pancake/waffle/tortilla recipe after they've tried them - so light and yummy! If I introduce any of his allergens in any quantity he reacts with tics (especially corn). We still see a chiropractor twice a week. He just actually came in and I asked him "are you hearing that loud ringing noise?" He said "no, not since that time long ago" and off he dashed outside again (California weather is gorgeous today and he's creating some sort of masterpiece outside!) Thanks so much for asking! I hope you are doing well! Giselle and Hoyt

Hi Kim! I read everything you post here! Including all the links! I appreciate all you do! My girlfriend just got a tetanus shot because she cut herself at a playground. I told her to get lots of rest and take antioxidants up the yin yang! I also gave her my son's doctor's card if she wanted to get chelated - the quicker she did it the better. She was surprised! She didn't realize they used mercury in ANY vaccines anymore! I set her straight about the tetanus. I doubt she'll get the chelation, probably doesn't really need to as she's healthy, but definitely needs the antioxidants et al. Thanks for all you do! Giselle

Thanks so much all of you! Obviously last night I was frantic reading everything I could - I found some amazing stuff. Amazing in a lot of stuff that you have to rule out first was stuff we are all too familiar with! Some things to rule out were yeast, strep and PANDAS!!!! Nutritional evaluation including B6 deficiency, allergy, cealiac disease, gluten sensitivity etc. etc.!!! Even the NIMH talked about omega-6, omega-3, glycine therapy!!!! WOW! How come if you here voices you get all this natural stuff and studies on natural stuff yet you go to the same places for Tourettes and find medication, medication, medication!! I ran!!! not walked!!! to his DAN Doctor this morning who instantly saw me and added toxoplasmosis to the list of virus titres to do tomorrow (to rule out the T. gondii bacterium from our dumb cats - I swear if he has this I'll personally wring their necks!!! Joking - sort of ). Just got off the phone with the Environmental Doctor who told me she was "alarmed but to not to worry". That all of this stuff is so inter-related and very much tied to defidiency, yeast, allergy - all the stuff he's got. GAME PLAN: We are doing the tests I talked about on another thread plus (we had already been going to do some tests because he'd started ticcing a lot again), an OAT test, amino acid level test, CBC, the virus titres, upping his P5P, adding biotin, calcium citrate and multitudinous prayers, oh and Rescue Remedy and B12 for me! One thing I forgot to mention, and I almost wrote about this last week, but because I've been so busy I erroneously ended up giving him his breakfast vitamins at dinner time three days in a row (they include energizing vitamins so I give them in the day). The main differences are extra P5P (B6),zinc, glutathione, L-carnitine. His tics went completely away again (I think most of you knew that he'd had a resurgence lately which I'd chalked up to seasonal allergies and why we were doing some blood work). I began thinking maybe pyroluria is part of the problem. Originally when we had him tested he showed a level 9 but he'd only been off his vitamins for two days and I hadn't put the sample in tin foil and neglected a few other things that FJ* has since suggested. I thought if I were to do it again I would do those things but since his level was nine even if he had it we were at least keeping it in check by the things we were doing. But with his tics going away with the extra P5P (B6) and zinc I wonder. It just so happens that a lot of schizophrenics have pyroluria too. So again all part and parcel. Reading this back I sound schizophrenic myself and feel my mind bouncing all over the place but this is the best I can describe what's going on at the moment - wish us luck and I'll keep you posted! Giselle

Oh, please anyone, I am so terrified. Tonight Little Hoyt told me, as I was lying down with him as he fell asleep, that he heard voices. There is a family across the street that has teenagers so I thought it was them. He told me "No, in my head." I was instantly 12 bell alarmed but didn't let on and asked if they were talking to him. He said "No, they are just yelling". I asked if this is the first time it had happened and he said no, that it had happened at school and that it had made it hard for him to do his work. He said he couldn't fall asleep because of it, that he tried to think of something else and then he would hear the yelling. I told him to not worry but to tell me everytime this happens as I want to write it down so we can try to figure out if perhaps it was in conjunction with something he ate or if he was over-tired so that we could try to figure out what it was - this made him feel much better (we have done this before with allergy type stuff very successfully so it seemed plausible to him that this would work all the while I'm just screaming inside). Please, please tell me that this has happened to someone. I have been crying since 8:00 as I am so terrified that this is schizophrenia. I went over to their board and looked around but not much and read all the major websites for this disorder. I am so confused and scared. Please pray for us. One website talked about t. gondi (from cats) being a factor as well as viruses - which we are actually going to be testing for this week - I will have the doctor add t. gondi to the list of things to test. Early symptoms that they said to watch for that he has anxiety and oversensitivity (or undersensitivity) to external stimuli such as sounds, taste, touch and smells (he definitely has this in spades!). And now the voices? Please someone help! Giselle and Hoyt

Hi Kim, since all the TS started I have stopped giving him ALL medications except Zyrtec and that only for a few days when seasonal allergies get super bad - we've only used 7 pills in 2 years. He had a horrible flu this Easter but weathered the whole thing without anything (he started with 103 temp and over the course of the next five days fluctuated between 102-100.5) We both stayed the course and I just stayed confident that his body was doing what it was supposed to do to wipe out those bugs. I explained this to him and even gave him the option of Tylenol at one point in the middle of the night when he was really suffering but I also told him earlier that each time he reduced his fever it makes it harder on his good guys to fight the bad guys. He said he didn't want the Tylenol "because I want this to stop sooner and I want to help my good guys". I stayed up for several hours with him and told him "war stories" about the fights that were going on in him and cooled him off with wet clothes on his head. He loves army and Star Wars stuff so this was easy to keep him entertained. I realized that my rush to Tylenol in his earlier years were more for me than him - I wanted to sleep and wanted him to sleep too - going the new way is definitely harder. There was a huge pay off - many kids in his class got this horrible flu and all but Hoyt had it for almost two weeks. He was done in 7 days! In fact his Dad got it and still has horrible gunk coming out his nose and feels awful - he had to take a fever reducer as he is working on a shoot for a film and he absolutely cannot be sick. Mind you, tic pain? That would be such a hard call!!! The only thing that I do for him for that is rub him with Magnesium Cream from Kirkman Labs and make an immediate appointment with his chiropractor which always helps at least to alleviate the pain and often move the tic to a less worrisome place. I do know though that Kaprex is a natural anit-inflammatory that both my and Hoyt's chiro's recommend but I haven't tried it on him yet but bring it when we are away just in case. But I was plummeted into shame with the part about the Zantac. We never used Zantac but when he was really little (less than two years) we liberally used Mylacon drops for any and all tummy upsets. They of course reduce stomach acids, as you say, and we were told they were perfectly safe by his pediatrician. I think now that these in tandem with antibiotics probably started him on this road of allergy and decreased immune system. How does one get their stomach acids back I wonder? Giselle

Wow! That's amazing - now I'm going to run back and have him add those to the list of things to look for. I'm wondering, though whether it's the hyper-immune response though, as you say? Such a mystery! In any case I'm going to at least print those out and show them to his DAN doctor. Thank you! Now let's say he does have a high incidence of one of the different viruses -what do they do? I had mentioned the question to his Environmental Doc in a rhetorical fashion and also answered "Is that a lifetime of Valtrex?" I said it in a joking tone. She said "oh, no, there is much more stuff we can do, but let's cross that bridge when we get there" so I wonder? When I got shingles and was put on Valtrex I am telling you I felt GREAT! I didn't get a cold sore for about two years after that! Odd. Hope you are doing well, by the way how is your little one? Giselle

Hi Kim! Wow, good question. I haven't a clue - I do know that the doctor was really at a loss for how many to pick. He said there are soooo many viruses that he wished he could pick them all but selected those that I have had and that were obvious like strep, and herpes (various different ones). I will ask him whether it's for antibodies or the actual virus. Hoyt has been suffering from seasonal allergies lately, did SAT testing all last week and has a ram rod baseball schedule this week so we are waiting to do this next Monday - poor little guy is sleeping 13 hours at night right now! He must really need it. I took him to the regular doctor Monday to make sure he didn't have an ear infection. He had been complaining that he felt like there was something in his ear and has had a lot of conjestion (I wanted to confirm that it was allergies). The doctor was mad because he hadn't been seen there for three years! He proceeded to tell me that what he wanted to do for Hoyt was put him on a steroid nasal spray and that it was PERFECTLY safe! I asked for Zyrtec and he declined insisting that he take the nasal spray. NO WONDER WE HAVEN'T BEEN THERE IN THREE YEARS! Needless to say the steriod nasal spray is about as safe as the damn vaccines he wants to give my baby and we aren't doing it. He's seen plenty of doctor face to face time in three years - just not this idiot! At least he didn't have an ear infection and yes, it was allergy stuffiness. The feeling Hoyt had in his ear is that his eustacian tube is creating negative pressure because he's conjested and Hoyt told me this AM that he doesn't feel this way anymore. Anyway, I got a prescription for Zyrtec from his holistic MD and would rather use that sporadically to give him some relief.

Yes, most definitely. Case in point - me, although not with chicken pox but mumps. I specifically got that vaccine as a youngster. At 16 I got not one case of mumps but two! One very bad and the second about 9 months later mild. I got the mumps specifically at the time I shouldn't - coming into my sexual maturity. Although rare (this usually happens to men), I could have become sterile! Not to mention I contaminated my entire high school class - boys too! The doctor just scratched his head and said I must have got an impotent batch of vaccine. Now they know you need boosters for this stuff but they were just starting to figure that stuff out at the time. The dumb vaccine I got, touted to give life long immunity, wore off just when I truly needed it. Giselle

Hi Kim, that was very interesting. I had chicken pox as a child, have had recurring cold sores as long as I can remember, got shingles two years ago (stress but I'm young). Little Hoyt didn't get the vaccine thank God! Now I have further evidence why he should not. He gets canker sores quite often and his DAN doctor has virus titres being done on his next blood test (this week). Interesting! Thanks again, Giselle

I know! Another case of their hypersensitivity - but just shows you how much yuck can get absorbed by the skin. And visa versa - hence our use of the magnesium cream on nights when a bath isn't possilbe. Whenever Hoyt is in the water he NEVER tics - it's either super soothing for him or there is enough stimulation all over his body that he just doesn't get a chance. Luckily we live in Southern California and are about 1/2 an hour from beaches and visit often (as well as that friend's pool). Giselle

Hi there, yes I believe it's the chlorine. Interesting fact is when we were thinking of going to one of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center's outreach clinics their questionaire specifically asked about chlorine. My son's tics definitely worsened after he started a swim team - we had to stop which was such a shame because at the time it was the only sport he truly loved and was a natural at (he's found baseball since happily). The only pool he is able to swim in is his best friend's and it has the salt system. Good luck, Giselle

Hi Kim, that's sweet! Dr. Cathie-Ann Lippman used a Vega machine - it uses the meridian lines of acupunture to test various computer models. Some people think that it's hooie. I've seen what she's able to do with it and I'm amazed. My husband was ENOURMOUSLY skeptical - he kept referring to it as her "tri-corder" as in Star Trek! He's seen what she can do and now tells me "go see Dr. Lippman!" Hoyt's DAN doctor says that it is very useful tool if the practitioner knows what they are doing but he felt he wasn't sensitive enough to make one work. We tested HER by asking her to test all of Hoyt's allergies (she didn't know that we'd had an IGG test done). She nailed every single allergy that it told us he had and refined a few to boot (we did this mostly for my husband's benefit and I remember the look on his face - he was stunned). She is truly amazing. She's always my first visit when something is bothering him because she always finds it fast. This go around it seems he developed a sensitivity to rhodiola rosea which was part of a proprietary nutritional from Neuroscience called PRT. At first we just took him off the whole thing but as it turned out he desperately needed the other three things that were in it. Poor kid, now he has to take all of those seperately. She also can tell what he's fighting and she told us this last visit that it was yeast. He was having such a horrible time I put him back on Nystatin - which within three days got him back to normal! That's when I was scratching my head trying to figure out about the sugar and realized it was the white rice! She really does amazing things for us. She is a classically trained physician but who realized that traditional medicine isn't the best thing for everything, she uses nutritionals and holistic approaches. She's very intuitive and we LOVE her!

Kim, you can't read that and not cry. What upsets me too is that it isn't just autism as I feel the assault on my son has exacerbated his issues. He didn't even get all his vaccines as I saw EARLY on how he reacted to them. He only had one after I realized he wouldn't be getting any more. Unfortunately he slashed his chin at a public pool and we got a tetanus shot (and stitches) - it was shortly after (about four months) that we saw the first OCD. When we went to see his Environmental Doctor she went through her testing and said "wow, he looks like he's fighting Tetanus, when did he get that?" He'd gotten it three years previous to the testing. Then she said "well it looks like he fought the MMR as I see no traces of it" and I told her he never got his MMR! So I totally trust that she knew what she was seeing. I often wonder had he got the MMR, with his sensitivity, would he have gotten Autism? I will never know thank goodness. I think Hoyt had the genetic disposition to get TS and OCD but I really think the assault of vaccine, the weakened immune system as a result, then the subsequent antibiotics pushed him over the edge. By the way, he's back to normal! Once we got the allergen out, and his yeast down he's not ticcing or OCDing anymore. Gosh what a hellish six weeks - not knowing WHAT is going on, when you know that something IS going on, and all the hit and missing is crazy making! But he's doing super well again! Thanks for all your informative posts, you are our angel! Giselle

Hi Kim, my brother-in-law gets an itchy mouth from tomatoes and potatoes! He was peeling potatoes for Thanksgiving and his hands got itchy, his lips swelled up, his eyes got itchy and he got conjested - but still ate them for dinner and got an itchy palate! I asked him didn't it occur to him that he was allergic? He was shocked! Can you believe this? He's a computer engineer so he's no dumby but come on! Hello! I was just at Hoyt's DAN doctor and we are doing a provoked test again. He'd had slightly elevated lead due to his zinc copper ratio imbalance but chelated to safe levels but are having another go around. Chelating makes him very tired (although his body loves the sulphur) so we are going to do this over spring break. And I didn't answer your earlier question - our doctors both said that Hoyt could take Zyrtec with all the vitamin therapy he's on. He doesn't take it as I didn't see much help but they said it was safe. Hoping it doesn't rain today (it did all yesterday) as we have a baseball game. It's Hoyt's first time ever playing a sport and he's doing GREAT! He can't catch super well but boy can he throw and hit! He got three runs last game and had 5 RBI's! They played an undefeated team and won! Go Pirates!!! Have a great day! Giselle

Hi all, oh my gosh, tonight right after dinner Hoyt's ears went beet red, his cheeks got red and he started to sweat quite badly considering we were just sitting watching Sponge Bob! And of course tic like crazy too. He had a gluten, casein, soy, corn free bagel right before dinner as he was starving, he had a slice of organic buffalo jerky, a baked potato with canola oil margarine and two long stalks of organic celery with salt (weird dinner but it was a snacky type night as we'd been at a friends house quite a while after school). He's eaten all of the above many times but the celery is not something he eats normally and I think that may have caused it - then he complained of a sore throat. I went on line and looked up red ears and found many allergy related links and this http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2...ergy&D=0&P=4581 Then I looked up celery allergy and found out that it is very common. He didn't test for it on his IGG testing but perhaps he's developed one. Because it was a non-reactive food he gets it every so often and in soups. I'm going to test my theory out later this weekend but was surprised at how strong his reaction was to his dinner tonight! Giselle

Hi guys, yep, hot ears and lately hot cheeks too, and yep, falling down silliness too. I agree the ears, cheeks are allergy related and think the falling down stuff is yeast related. The falling down silliness was also related to waking himself up when just regular sleepy (will fight tooth and nail his feelings of sleepiness as I believe he thinks this is somehow a weakness) so I think when he's fighting the fog of a yeast bloom he tries what works for him in the regular sleepy department. He's really having trouble with mold right now - blooming in our area of So. Cal. due to all the sprinkles of rain alternating with warmish days. And he was having a yeast bloom also which his regular stuff wasn't controlling. The yeast sort of caught me by surprise as he wasn't craving "sugar" as he usually does - until I realized he's getting his sugar from all the rice he's been eating! You know, you think you have this down and then. . . anyway, luckily I got it down quick with Nystatin and will be more vigilant about the carbs he's getting in general. I just hate yeast - I mean if you knew how much probiotic he's getting every day you wouldn't think there was any ROOM for the yeasties!!! He gets 60 billion organisms per day! Giselle

Yeah! That's fantastic - I'm so glad you all had fun! Thanks for giving us an update! Giselle

Hi Carolyn, not Lisa but had a question - the only time B12 stings for me is if it's mixed with B6, by any chance was this the case. B12 shouldn't sting as you guessed. Giselle

Hi there, can anyone tell me the difference between IGG and IGA testing? My friend just had her son tested IGG by a DAN doctor but when speaking to a regular allergy doctor he told her that the IGG was useless and that one should only pay attention to the IGA test. Her son's IGG test showed allergy to 27 foods where as his IGA test showed only nuts. We had IGG testing done and avoid all that it said to great benefit but wanted the facts to tell her. Thanks, Giselle