Body odor can it be from yeast?

[Kathy4Him]

My DS 23 has this strong body odor when I wake him up in the morning. Has gotten worse and he does shower so it is not that.

I do cook with garlic everyday...2 chicken breasts because thats all he eats for dinner and it has been that way for a year. I had wondered if it was the garlic.

But I also wonder if antibiotics can be causing it. Perhaps yeast overgrowth?

Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[SSS]

I actually think it can be from detoxing bacteria- I have read that before-

I am assuming he is on antibiotics?

[Broo100]

My youngest daughter had a strong body odor until I eliminated gluten from her diet.

[rowingmom]

DD11 had an odor in her bedclothes and PJ's before she started treatment. I couldn't place it. Not urine or ammonia, but kind of along that line. Even in a clean bed /PJ's the night before, I would notice it in the morning (but with a dry bed). I wouldn't really notice it one her during the day though. Since starting treatment and detox protocols it has disappeared and not returned. We eat lots of raw garlic and don't notice anything garlicy (perhaps the neighbours might have a different opinion). She was not eating gluten at the time - I had removed it earlier in an attempt to track down her IBS symptoms.

 

My thought is that it was an overload of bacteria and their toxins that the body trying to get rid of.

 

DD does have a friend that she made before her diagnosis and starting treatment. A girl the same age who has been dx with aspergers, so she has some social delays/ocd/vocal ticcing. Her sister is quite autistic and her little brother has a dx of PDD-NOS. They all have the same type of odor. It's very noticable to me now. With treatment DD11 has matured far past this friend, and they no longer have much in common.

Edited April 10, 2013 by rowingmom

[Kathy4Him]

No gluten for a long time. Is on antiobiotics and immunosuppressants. Maybe treatment is beginning to work! ? His ocd had gotten worse in last 2 mths and I asked his Dr. about the IVIG "turning back the pages" and if that theory could apply to cellcept (immunosuppressant) treatment. Answer: fundamentally, yes. so perhaps we are seeing, and smelling the worst before the breakthrough! I hope so.

 

Thanks for the comments!!