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Autism Information: Gluten free diet & Vit A

Dr. Stoll, my child is improving daily with the gluten free diet & your diet. Thank you for all your help! This study I just found today shows how some autism can be helped with a gluten free diet & vitamin A. I'll copy & paste below:

Check this out, from the Wrightslaw site:
MAY I HAVE THE RED JOLLY RANCHER PLEASE?

“My earliest evidence came from a ten-year-old boy diagnosed with autism by
DSM-IV criteria (20). The patient’s parents suspect he has been reading
since age four but his inability to communicate made this unverifiable. Over
an eight-year period of regular visits I had never heard him speak.
Standardized IQ tests revealed moderate mental retardation . . .”

“. . . I started the boy on cod liver oil (5,000 IU of Vitamin A,given in
2500 IU/b.i.d.) and a gluten free diet. After one week, he began to sit
farther from the television and to notice paintings on the walls at home. He
had always gone out of his way to follow the sidewalk and driveway to meet
the school bus.”

“On Vitamin A, he began to run across the grass directly from the front door
to the school bus. After three weeks, he was given a
single dose of Urocholine, an alpha muscarinic receptor agonist, to increase
bile and pancreatic secretions and indirectly
stimulate hippocampal retinoid receptors . . .”

“Thirty minutes after administration of the Urocholine, the patient, who was
sitting in a chair, swung his feet over the side, pointed to a glass candy
jar on my shelf and said,”

"May I have the red Jolly Rancher® please?"

“He had read the label on the candy in the clear jar. These were the first
words he had spoken in eight years, and the first proof
that he could read. We took him outside and he said, ‘The leaves, the leaves
on the trees are green! I see! I see!’”

“When I asked to take his picture he looked at the camera, smiled and waved.
When he left the office I said, "See you later." He
asked, "What time?"

“In this child’s case, after several weeks of treatment with Vitamin A in
CLO 3500 IU/day, the Urocholine acted like a switch.
When absorbed, he immediately became socially engaged, made excellent eye
contact, hugged his mother tightly and said, "I love you so much," looking
at her face.”

“At that point we both realized that this child had a blocked pathway. The
change in language and social interaction was dramatic and immediate. Yet he
reverted to the pre-treatment state of silence when the dose wore off.”

“On lower daily doses of Urocholine (12.5 mg bid) along with the Vitamin A,
his language and social interactions have continued to
progress, albeit slowly.” (from Abstract, link below)

LINKSYou can read this Abstract at the Wrightslaw site at
http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/2000/News_AUTISM_Megson_00_0121.html
and at Dr. Megson’s site athttp://www.megson.com
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