treating autism with antibiotics

[MichaelTampa]

Dr. Klinghardt has said he finds about 90% of the autistic kids he runs into end up having lyme and get better with lyme treatment. Of course, he is a famous lyme doc, so there may be some selection in terms of cases he sees. Also note, he is not just an abx-giver, he does a lot of treatments for general overall well-being, that perhaps are similar in goal to what DAN docs would give, such as detoxing metals and making sure nutrition is good. Nonetheless, yes, it does seem many cases of autism have an infectious component. Also, he notes that degree of autism highly correlated with EMF exposure for mother during pregnancy. There is a real link between EMF exposure and infection.

Edited February 21, 2012 by MichaelTampa

[sf_mom]

We have 3 children with Congenital Lyme Disease. One child had a PANDAS on-set after a strep related illness at 5 1/2 years of age. Our younger twins would have both been diagnosed ASD but were placed on antibiotics at 2 1/2 years of age. Our DD had one word of 'up' and her twin brother suffered from rages and OCD prior to antibiotics. The twins are now 4 1/2 years old and meeting all their developmental markers. Older DS PANDAS symptoms are in full remission.

 

My children are not genetically related to each other thanks to assisted reproductive technology. The twins were conceived via donor egg but carried by me in-utero. Due to our genetic mix, I happen to believe more in genetic switching due to chronic infection verses genetic predisposition. It is strange to see similarity in their disease (rashes, food allergies, immune deficiencies, at one time kissing tonsils, etc) as well as their unique symptom presentation (one was predominately TICS with minor OCD, one was OCD/rages/sensory/minor tics/heart issues, one had no language skills, high anxiety, sick often, underweight, no OCD or TICS). We were very fortunate to have found an integrative LLMD that has had great success treating autistic children for chronic infection as well as other issues that comes along with chronic state typically from birth. We are very hopeful our twins will make a full recovery.