Part one
Mid January 2014 I discovered a group for treating PANDAS with Essential OILS. I read a few success stories and decided to start with the two oils that were talked about. These oils are Capaiba Oil and Ocotea Oil.
I went out and purchased Manuka honey and off I went. To start, I gave my son 3 drops of Capaibo and 2 drops of Ocotea oil mixed with 1/2 teaspoon Manuka honey. The first time I gave this to him all tics stopped for 4 hours. I gave it to him twice a day until the tics were coming back sooner. That took about 3 days...and I increased the drops to 5-6 drops of Capaibo and 3 Ocotea twice a day. My sons tics and brain "fog" was definitely improving. I added Kirkmans Bio film defense ( every day) along with Enhansa three times a week and Citrus pectin once a day in the evening ( to clean up the gut). This came from information from a protocol from Dr Usman on Bio film. Please note I did not do everything listed, just introduced a few key components...click on Dr Usman's name for a full list. Adding these elements only helped support my sons healing and within 4 weeks after starting with first the oils, and adding the three additional items, my son no longer has tics and is back to himself. I stopped giving the oils orally and am now layering Oils on his feet every few days for continued healing and incorporating other oils!! Thankfully, if strep does become an issue again and the cycle begins I'm fully armed with other oils that deal with Strep.
I share this because I have had a few friends contact me after hearing about my son, recalling their own child's illness and a sudden onset of OCD/Tics. Essentially one day their child changed! This is not just for children with Autism. If anything I said resonates with you and you would like to talk to me more about Essential oils I welcome you to email me at rdi4autism@gmail.com ... Every child is different but I know in the 6 months that I was dealing with a PANDAS flare, I was desperate for possibilities to help! This may be one of those helps for you too. I am not a doctor and suggest that you always involve a doctor when treating PANDAS... but Parent to Parent I am thrilled to be able to find something that helped my son and wanted to share my success with using the above anti-inflammatory oils along with treating biofilm. I did this under the supervision of my sons pediatrician ... which she could offer me little help other then antiobiotic and medication. She wrote down everything I did... :) Please comment below or email me if you would like me to add you to the group on facebook to find out more!!
Update- I have had a few requests on how to get these oils...I dont sell them...but you can buy them two ways ( retail)...or become a distributor ( wholesale saving almost 25 percent)... you can just click on this link to buy them yourself ... Hope that helps! https://www.youngliving.com/signup/?sponsorid=1630319&enrollerid=1630319
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
I never really knew what PANDAS looked like until.....Part 1
I realized my son was showing symptoms! Switching gears for this post to talk a bit about a co occurring condition with Autism for affects many of our children.
PANDAS... stands for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. I knew about PANDAS from the Autism Conferences I had attended, but never looked deeper.
With my younger son, literally one day ( around late fall of 2012) he was a completely different child. He started making these gurgling clearing throat noises which gradually got worse as a few days progressed. At the same time my daughter told me her throat hurt. I took her to the doctor for a throat check and she had strep throat. I had them check my son even though he said his throat did not hurt. He was negative.
The noises were getting more profound so I continued to explore the internet. He was diagnosed with Autism at 18 months, and was now 11, and had overcome many of the obstacles of Autism. The child I was told would never speak, carries on deep experience sharing conversations with me. He is flexible and is curious, and we typically have a blast wherever we go because of the hard work we did with RDI ( Relationship Development Intervention) for 5 years starting at age 4.
But now, not only was I seeing different behaviors, I noticed he started tuning out, something I had not seen since years before as we were working through developmental stages. I stumbled across a PANDAS site and read how the culture does not always show positive for children and that the strep is hiding out. I did something that I don't recommend but I knew I wanted to see what was happening. I started giving my son my daughters antibiotic. Thankfully there was enough... and...within 3 days, after watching my son become another child, was back to his old self. It was quite scary as I now knew there was something huge happening.
All was well, but the more I read, the more I knew, another strep infection... would come on strong. About 6 months later, my daughter complained of a sore throat again...and within a day, my son started having vocal tics again. Sigh... so this time... armed with information I was going to tell my pediatrician what had happened and what I believe is going on. Unfortunately, all he heard was I gave him someone else's medicine...so once I got him to move past that...he told me there was no such thing as PANDAS....and I should put my son on medication for tourettes that he could prescribe. I asked him how that was getting to the core of my sons issue, to which he again told me, there is no such thing as PANDAS. The conversation continued ...and ended with a script for a lab for blood work to check to determine if he had strep. Meanwhile so I could show them how he has consistently showed up as negative to strep, we took my son in for s throat check. This check came out negative, however the doctor I saw ( there are a few doctors in the practice) took one look at my son and said, he looks like he has PANDAS. Uhh THANK YOU!!! Started him on Antibiotics and again cleared up. That was spring ..so the fall of 2013 ( approximately 8 months ago) strep entered the house again because my son started ticking. My daughter did not have strep but sudden drastic ticking from my son meant he was infected. Another round of antibiotics but this time they improved but did not go completely away. Not loving the fact that my son had antibiotic more in his lifetime in the past 18 months then ever ( he was barely sick as a child) I wanted to just see if it would go away on its own. The tics were few but as two months went on, I noticed he was becoming less like himself. Back to the doctor I go, but this time the antibiotic did not do anything. Clearly we discovered that 1. He needed a stronger antibiotic and 2 he may need it for a longer duration. While we were figuring this out his auto immune response went into full swing, and it was to the point where he was ticing every few minutes ( or worse) and the antibiotic was not helping. The infection was clear...but the antibiotic was not helping his auto immune response. This lovely time was happening in November-December 2013. I started exploring doctors who specialize in PANDAS under my pediatricians recommendations...and contacted a few. At the same time I came across many referenced to Essential oils. ( I was introduced by a friend in December before we went to Disney world)...but when I came back I started more detailed research on Essential oils. We were in January and my sons tics were still profound...every few minutes like a barking. He had been on antibiotic since December so 6 weeks of antibiotic with only slight improvement. My pediatrician explained to me that his Auto immune response was in activated so the only thing she could offer me was certain medication for tourette's or blood pressure that showed helpful with tics...and that I should see a neurologist. Part two will be posted tomorrow :)
PANDAS... stands for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. I knew about PANDAS from the Autism Conferences I had attended, but never looked deeper.
With my younger son, literally one day ( around late fall of 2012) he was a completely different child. He started making these gurgling clearing throat noises which gradually got worse as a few days progressed. At the same time my daughter told me her throat hurt. I took her to the doctor for a throat check and she had strep throat. I had them check my son even though he said his throat did not hurt. He was negative.
The noises were getting more profound so I continued to explore the internet. He was diagnosed with Autism at 18 months, and was now 11, and had overcome many of the obstacles of Autism. The child I was told would never speak, carries on deep experience sharing conversations with me. He is flexible and is curious, and we typically have a blast wherever we go because of the hard work we did with RDI ( Relationship Development Intervention) for 5 years starting at age 4.
But now, not only was I seeing different behaviors, I noticed he started tuning out, something I had not seen since years before as we were working through developmental stages. I stumbled across a PANDAS site and read how the culture does not always show positive for children and that the strep is hiding out. I did something that I don't recommend but I knew I wanted to see what was happening. I started giving my son my daughters antibiotic. Thankfully there was enough... and...within 3 days, after watching my son become another child, was back to his old self. It was quite scary as I now knew there was something huge happening.
All was well, but the more I read, the more I knew, another strep infection... would come on strong. About 6 months later, my daughter complained of a sore throat again...and within a day, my son started having vocal tics again. Sigh... so this time... armed with information I was going to tell my pediatrician what had happened and what I believe is going on. Unfortunately, all he heard was I gave him someone else's medicine...so once I got him to move past that...he told me there was no such thing as PANDAS....and I should put my son on medication for tourettes that he could prescribe. I asked him how that was getting to the core of my sons issue, to which he again told me, there is no such thing as PANDAS. The conversation continued ...and ended with a script for a lab for blood work to check to determine if he had strep. Meanwhile so I could show them how he has consistently showed up as negative to strep, we took my son in for s throat check. This check came out negative, however the doctor I saw ( there are a few doctors in the practice) took one look at my son and said, he looks like he has PANDAS. Uhh THANK YOU!!! Started him on Antibiotics and again cleared up. That was spring ..so the fall of 2013 ( approximately 8 months ago) strep entered the house again because my son started ticking. My daughter did not have strep but sudden drastic ticking from my son meant he was infected. Another round of antibiotics but this time they improved but did not go completely away. Not loving the fact that my son had antibiotic more in his lifetime in the past 18 months then ever ( he was barely sick as a child) I wanted to just see if it would go away on its own. The tics were few but as two months went on, I noticed he was becoming less like himself. Back to the doctor I go, but this time the antibiotic did not do anything. Clearly we discovered that 1. He needed a stronger antibiotic and 2 he may need it for a longer duration. While we were figuring this out his auto immune response went into full swing, and it was to the point where he was ticing every few minutes ( or worse) and the antibiotic was not helping. The infection was clear...but the antibiotic was not helping his auto immune response. This lovely time was happening in November-December 2013. I started exploring doctors who specialize in PANDAS under my pediatricians recommendations...and contacted a few. At the same time I came across many referenced to Essential oils. ( I was introduced by a friend in December before we went to Disney world)...but when I came back I started more detailed research on Essential oils. We were in January and my sons tics were still profound...every few minutes like a barking. He had been on antibiotic since December so 6 weeks of antibiotic with only slight improvement. My pediatrician explained to me that his Auto immune response was in activated so the only thing she could offer me was certain medication for tourette's or blood pressure that showed helpful with tics...and that I should see a neurologist. Part two will be posted tomorrow :)
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