In the 90s when kids had lots of vaccines with mercury in them, most kids with full blown autism couldn't talk. The ones that COULD talk were diagnosed with Asperger's or PDD-NOS instead. My older daughter (born 2000) had PDD-NOS. We were able to greatly reduce most of her symptoms.
I think a lot of the kids who are diagnosed with autism …
In the 90s when kids had lots of vaccines with mercury in them, most kids with full blown autism couldn't talk. The ones that COULD talk were diagnosed with Asperger's or PDD-NOS instead. My older daughter (born 2000) had PDD-NOS. We were able to greatly reduce most of her symptoms.
I think a lot of the kids who are diagnosed with autism today have PANS/PANDAS as their main issue. It has to do with an infection entering the brain and never clearing. One of the top PANS/PANDAS doctors is Dr. Miroslav Kovacevic. He's one of the leaders in the field.
Here is the PANS/PANDAS page from his somewhat antiquated website:
I'm linking that page because he has a little broader set of criteria for diagnosing PANS/PANDAS than the official definition.
My younger child (born 2006) suffers from this. She has high functioning autism, ADHD, and ODD among her diagnoses. Some defining characteristics of PANS/PANDAS are poor math ability, poor handwriting, OCD and the child being unwilling to eat many kinds of foods.
In the 90s when kids had lots of vaccines with mercury in them, most kids with full blown autism couldn't talk. The ones that COULD talk were diagnosed with Asperger's or PDD-NOS instead. My older daughter (born 2000) had PDD-NOS. We were able to greatly reduce most of her symptoms.
I think a lot of the kids who are diagnosed with autism today have PANS/PANDAS as their main issue. It has to do with an infection entering the brain and never clearing. One of the top PANS/PANDAS doctors is Dr. Miroslav Kovacevic. He's one of the leaders in the field.
Here is the PANS/PANDAS page from his somewhat antiquated website:
https://www.webpediatrics.com/ivig.html
I'm linking that page because he has a little broader set of criteria for diagnosing PANS/PANDAS than the official definition.
My younger child (born 2006) suffers from this. She has high functioning autism, ADHD, and ODD among her diagnoses. Some defining characteristics of PANS/PANDAS are poor math ability, poor handwriting, OCD and the child being unwilling to eat many kinds of foods.