thinking of trying Augmentin! What is better?

[Sylvia]

I also wanted to add that I am a bit afraid of Augmentin because of the link to autism via increased ammonia levels:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15607562

 

Anyone here have any thought on this?

 

Nicholas regressed into autism as an infant. After each round of vaccinations he would always react very badly - actually text book vaccine adverse reactions, but pediatricians never aknowledge that vaccines can ever do harm, so I was always told these things were nothing to worry about and were either normal or coincidental. He had projectile vomiting, fever, high pitched screaming with arched back (which is the sign of brain inflammation, but I was never told this at the time),couldn't nurse or take a bottle, and extreme aggitation. I would take him in to the ped and he would always be diagnosed with an ear infection and put on antibiotics. Things got worse and worse untill his last shot and antibiotic when he stopped screaming and got that blank look on his face. An autism diagnosis followed.

 

So I have always been afraid of antibotics untill just recently with the life changing effects of Amoxicillin. The Augmentin is intriguing to me, but I am also a bit terrified.

 

Sylvia

 

 

 

Great thread--(as both our kids are on Augmentin now--)

 

So...in review, "start out and see" working upwards as necessary--seems to be the conclusion I would draw. From our experience, 875mg twice a day of regular Augmentin was not sufficient, and after about a month we switched UP to Augmentin XR and saw improvement.

 

Amox. full strength DID work for our oldest d for 9 months--but she recently was switched to Augmentin XR as I tried to back off the Amox. and she backslid tremendously (thankfully summer months.)

 

Happy to report that she is (hopefully) seeing some improvement after a week of XR twice a day (125 lbs.)

[norcalmom]

have you or buster seen uncovered any research on D1 or D2 anti-neuronal antibodies and the c. Acid? I know the research on the C.acid is with dopamine, and since many (all?)our kids have all these dopamine related anti-neuronal antibody issues, just wondered if there was something connecting them.

 

In our son's case his D1 and D1 were normal...but cam K and antiGang. way off. I recently viewed Drs. Swedo and Cunningham presentation(on the CDs I ordered) from Autism One conference, and I think I remember that the antineuronal antibodies lead to dopamine disfunction. Dr C was flying thro the info so fast I couldn't really keep up (much less comprehend). I need to review that CD.