I’m carrying out a series of Vaccine Injury Recovery interviews with parents of patients of mine who regressed into autism very soon or immediately after vaccination.
I want to illustrate the process we go through for homeopathic treatment for recovery after vaccine injury, what the difficulties are and the gains.
Lee Ann brought Taylor to me first for a free 15 min chat in February 2017 with the following issues:
12 year old girl,
Severe non-verbal autism.
Normal development until 1 year, regression after MMR.
ADHD, extreme anxiety, pica [eating inedible things –> has to be supervised continually], OCD.
PANS [Pediatric Acute onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome].
Aggressive whatever her mood.
Classical homeopathy from 4-8 y/o with no change.
Current extreme spike in behaviors with meltdowns that come out of nowhere.
Headbangs, self-harms, takes clothes off, grabs groin area [previously handled and ate feces].
Only relief is Risperidone [a medication not tested or recommended for use in children]. Gaining weight as a side effect.
Sleep has always been a problem. Up 2-3 times/night for extended periods. For this she takes Trazadone.
Intellectual disability with an intellectual age of 3-4 years.
Digestive system is problematic: severe constipation, gas & distension.
Menstrual cycles started March 2017 –> harming self and others has increased.
Our most recent follow-up notes from March 2018 read as follows:
Follow-up:
Peaceful!!!
Can handle “no”.
More compliant.
Joyous to teach at school.
Independently asks for what she wants!!! Previously just screamed.
Can repeat what she’s asked to repeat.
More clear speech. Some slurring.
Awesome Bowel movements without magnesium this week!!!
Increased melatonin. No Trazodone.
Weaning off Risperidone [now on 0.25mg]
Sleep is good but some waking between 2-4am.
Toe walking [os] returned.
New symptom – a long shiver [chorea?] started last week. Flickering and rolling eyes and mouth. Gleering entering room still.
No longer using Motrin.
Emotional premenstrually.
Taylor still has a long way to go. She’s been under treatment for just less than 1 year. Her mental age is still about age 3-4 years and we are hoping that will now improve as she is freed from pain and is able to start communicating and focussing better.
Homeopathic treatment for severe autism such as Taylor shows, in a child of her age, will take a good 2 years of treatment and we are working to regain as much of her future as we can.
Before A.N. came to me for homeopathic treatment she’d been to a number of homeopaths:
Classical,
sequential,
Heilkunz [some detox],
& hermetic protocol.
She had some relief of OCD but during the Hermetic [Michele Iqbal] protocol she’d become more violent and this had remained since.
In the past year and a half she’d further regressed after ion cleanse foot bath for detox.
She has 1 x Mthfr mutation. 1 working kidney.
Toxic metals are a BIG problem. Mum is scared to start metal detox.
No steroids.
Needs to detox
birth meds,
vaccines,
antibiotics and
metals in particular.
She has the high level of yeast you expect with high levels of toxic metals.
Medical History
Amoxicillin antibiotic from birth until 18 months [kidney cyst].
History of repeat ear infections with high fevers, treated with antibiotics.
These infections and the fevers stopped age 2 as the regression started.
No high fevers for 12 years.
Fully vaccinated to age 2.
Autism detected age 18 months.
Regression since age 2:
stopped answering name,
lost eye contact,
lost beginnings of speech.
Diagnosed with ‘non-verbal autism’ age 2.5.
Current Problems
Violence started age 8, worsening with Hermetic protocol ++.
She has hyperactivity.
Receptive language is workable.
She needs 2 aids to manage at school.
Severe constipation since birth. Will go 1 month without a stool without intervention! [This will make detox really difficult and must be addressed daily during detox.]
Terrible sleep disturbance. Hyperactive at night.
Has a constant noise tick.
Severe menstrual pains → increased violence.
Won’t keep clothes on. Undresses in public. Stips and runs around the house.
Has become very lazy and won’t feed herself.
Sky high toxic metals! [See chart below].
Analysis:
A.N. cannot detox metals from her body. You’ll see her total toxic representation is in the 100% percentile. She is off the chart on at least antimony and lead and has an unprecedented toxic load.
A.N. Has had no high fevers since very early childhood. Her immune system is very poor. She’s moved through ‘level 6’ [a spate of repeat infections] at age two and dropped to lower level 7 or level 8 [no fevers present and definite chronic condition] from that point onward.
Her behaviour calms with Ibuprofen [an anti-inflammatory] indicating her distress and behavioural problems are caused by a high level of brain inflammation. I’m not convinced she has PANS [an autoimmune disorder of the brain]. I think metal toxicity can account for her problems.
Constipation is associated very strongly with metal toxicity, especially of aluminium and lead and compounds her inability to detox metals.
Where could she get these metals from?
• Aluminium will have been accumulated from vaccines [probably leading to her regression about age 2] and from aluminium cookware.
• Antimony is used as a fire retardant on baby clothes and furnishings.
• Arsenic is common in rice and gluten-free products made with rice.
• Barium may have come from medical tests.
• Lead is a common toxin from old paints and leaded petrol.
• Mercury is a preservative in some multi-dose vaccines and was used in vaccines until 2000. It can be accumulated in utero from mothers with mercury fillings. It’s also a pollutant in fish.
Other toxins she has accumulated are as follows:
• plastics,
• farming chemicals,
• paint/nail varnish chemicals,
• gasoline pollution.
• Mycotoxins.
• Yeast/fungi.
First Prescription
Poly vaccine USA detox. An 8-week homeopathic detox protocol. [She was vaccinated in the USA.] Raising through potencies 30c, 200c, 1M, and 10M.
Helleborus 30c every Saturday. This is a remedy strongly associated with brain inflammation and was used by the old homeopathic doctors to treat encephalitis and meningitis. It’s strongest keynote is “DESPAIR”.
Mag phos 200c in a homeopathic solution with 3 succussions for period pain as needed.
Helleborus niger. Highly toxic in its raw state, is a very useful remedy in homeopathic dilution. It’s the strongest remedy for intense despair and is often indicated for encephalitis.
Text Update [1 month later]
First high fever since age 2! [Watch out now as we will expect to see a return of the ear infections. It is possible she will resolve the ear infections at this point. If not, we need to treat them homeopathically].
This is a homeopath’s favourite type of response in a child with this level of health. It shows we’ve already raised her level of health with the first prescription back to level 6.
Follow-up: [1.5 months after first prescription]
First two times she had Helleborus: she seemed to be good that day. In a good mood. Now aggravating after doses [stopped Helleborus].
Much calmer.
Less violent.
Seems to want to speak.
Constipated still.
Prescription:
Stop helleborus. Continue vaccine detox.
Poly bowel nosode 30c for 21 days.
Next detox = poly antibiotics 30c through 10M, 8-week homeopathic detox therapy protocol.
Follow-up: [2 months later]
>>> improved constipation after bowel nosode. [*Returned 2 weeks after stopping poly bowel].
Now keeps her clothes on.
>>> improved violence +++
Less crying and screaming.
No menstrual pain x 2 cycles.
Sleeping from 1 am.
More connected to sister. Kissing her.
More independent: dressing self, putting clothes in the washing basket.
Throat clearing tick has gone.
Antibiotic detox → hyper, OCD behviour returning. Undressing. Screaming and running. Now decreasing after 200c. [Added adrenal support].
Prescription:
Mercury 200c am and pm for 1 day.
Continue poly antibiotics detox.
Strep combo 30c single daily dose during PANDAS flares.
Follow-up: [2 months later]
Calmer detox with adrenal support. Adrenal cortex 30c didn’t help much but Bioray Loving Energy Adrenal System Support helped.
Keeps her clothes on.
Less crying/screaming.
Violence is gone.
Sleeping late [active until late in her room] but sleeps well for 8 hours.
Old Symptoms Returning [good sign]:
pica,
foolish behaviour
Constipated again.
Prescription:
Tarentula hispanica 30c am and pm for 2 days.
Stop detoxing if not able to address constipation with at least 1 bowel movement a day.
Follow-up: [1 month later]
Address supplements and Epsom’s salts baths, & constipation.
This PANDAS Treatment article was first published at steemit.com.
When PANDAS Treatment Begins
*Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep*
New Patient: A.G. Female. Age 5. UK. A.G. is having recurrent tonsillitis and the start of PANDAS. She has permanently inflamed glands in the throat. Each episode is getting worse and antibiotics haven’t helped. She’s beginning to exhibit ‘PANDAS’ like behavioural changes during these episodes: loss of eye contact, emotional fragility [anxiety and meltdowns] & uncharacteristic defiance. Between episodes, she’s a mild-mannered & timid child. She’s popular with children at school and has great conflict resolution skills.
Additional issues:
For 6 months she’s had a bad infection of molluscum contagiosum around the legs and genitalia. She has an allergic rash that comes with fruit from the latex family [pineapple, kiwi, mangoes, strawberries, etc]. She is tall, pale, thin and timid. Her molluscum eruptions don’t heal well.
Toxicology/Medical history:
She’s had steroid creams, full vaccines schedule and one course of antibiotics.
She is the eldest of three and the family no-longer vaccinates since her next brother [another patient of mine] was vaccine injured and regressed into autism.
Her brother’s experience indicates the family may have a genetic weakness for poor detoxing of toxic metals.
We don’t know why boys exhibit autism at a far greater rate than girls.
If A.G. was male she may well have been autistic too. Girls seem to be protected to some extent. The youngest brother is unvaccinated and extremely healthy so far.
Vaccines contain a detergent called polysorbate 80 which makes the blood-brain barrier permeable giving aluminium and other vaccine contents access to the brain. It is probable that PANDAS is so common among vaccine injured, autistic children because the blood-brain barrier is compromised and the immune system is very weak. I suspect this is the case for A.G. thought she is not on the autistic spectrum.
First Prescription:
Silica 200c, single dose weekly for 4 weeks. Poly steriod detox, according to the 8 weeks Homeopathic Detox Therapy [HDT] “4×4” protocol, raising through the following potencies: 30c, 200C, 1M & 10M. Poly bowel nosode 30c, single dose for 21 days: gut healing after antibiotics.
In treating her [including her PANDAS] I’m looking for a remedy that fits her well. She fits silica nicely. It’s also one of the remedies indicated for molluscum.
I’ll be sure to post updates to let you know how she does. I’ve worked very successfully with children with enlarged glands and recurrent tonsillitis [as well as with children diagnosed with PANDAS], so I’m hopeful she’ll do well.
PANDAS is a disorder of the PANS group [PANS = Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndromes]. In children with PANDAS diagnosis, strep exposure triggers a misdirected immune response causing brain inflammation that leads to intermittent episodes of OCD, anxiety, tics, personality changes, decline in math and handwriting abilities, sensory sensitivities, restrictive eating, and more [all common symptoms in autism spectrum disorder also].
As you’ll see below, other viruses, bacteria, and non-infectious triggers can cause PAN syndromes including mycoplasma, Lyme, & varicella.
PANS & PANDAS can be resolved well with homeopathy. Antibiotic and steroid blast treatments are conventionally used and can have some short-term benefits, along with side effects. Diagnosis isn’t necessary for the success of homeopathic treatment as we use the symptoms to find a fitting remedy. However, it is useful for homeopaths to be aware of PANS conditions and their possible triggers as they can do some work toward supporting the child with homeopathic nosodes alongside treatment to raise the immune system.
Autism Treatment and the role of steroid medications.
In the autism treatment, I’m going to describe below, it was the very beginning of our work.
If I think detoxes are needed, I *always* start with a steroid detox [of different length and depth] if the child has had steroids [in utero even, as prematurely born children often have], or either parent had a lot of steroids.
I find this can really open up cases so that children can heal well.
I also regret whenever I haven’t detoxed steroid as I see stronger aggravations and fewer gains with subsequent homeopathic detoxes.
I’ll also do this when the child has been largely unresponsive to classically prescribed homeopathic remedies.
Another remedy I use in preparation for children who have *no* response to well-chosen homeopathic remedies is thuja. This can clear a case so that the child can start to respond.
I had one 19-year-old autistic patient who had a life history of non-response. He responded to thuja.
Here’s a lovely testimonial of a 9-year-old boy with autism, describing his gains from a homeopathic steroid detox & homeopathic opium. I’ll let his mother tell the story as she tells it so joyously, pointing out that her son gained what we often take for granted in our neuro-typical children. 😀
Cancer is an immune system disease.
We have cancer all the time but ‘cancer’ happens when your immune system can no longer clear and control cancerous cells.
If you use chemo, radiotherapy & steroids to push active cancer into remission your immune system is weakened massively. If you go into remission, what frequently happens is cancer reappears in a number of places and is even harder to fight.
All the natural measures you took during cancer to raise your immune system [alkalising diet, homeopathy, etc] should be continued long-term to repair your immune system and prevent cancer reappearing. Don’t go into remission and return to your old habits. After chemo it’s imperative to raise your immune system above its pre-chemo condition and to a pre-cancerous state.
We resolve conditions with homeopathy by raising the immune system to a stage before the problem was triggered and try to keep health at that higher level.
Homeopathy is, therefore, an ideal way to recover from toxic cancer treatments.
The Banerji Homeopathy clinic in India has a really excellent rate of positive outcomes in cancer treatment.
In the UK, we are legally prevented from claiming that homeopathy can treat cancer so you’ll not hear about it in many places. But homeopathy works by stimulating and strengthening the immune system, enabling it to do its own healing.
Cancer is becoming commonplace as people’s immune systems get weaker and it’s caused by generations of suppressive conventional medicine [steroids, antibiotics, vaccines, drugs, recreational drugs, more drugs for the drug side effects] and ever-increasing exposure to toxins in our food & environment.
Start now. Clean up your lifestyle and have homeopathic treatment to help you detox and keep you clean and fit.
We are So Used to Being Sick, We think Fevers are only for Kids! It’s really uncommon for me to meet a European or American adult who can raise a high fever to overcome a viral infection. Most have chronic diseases and little susceptibility to acute infectious diseases at all. Their immune systems are too weak to mount a significant response (fever) to bog standard viruses like flu or to quickly eliminate flu without secondary infections.
When I examine a child’s medical history I always see evidence of a drop in the immune system at every vaccine date. We know that vaccinated children have more infections and more chronic diseases compared to unvaccinated children. Vaccines work by damaging the immune system. They add aluminium to vaccines to suppress the immune system which would otherwise quickly clear the disease material that’s been injected. If the aluminium remains in the body it continues to suppress the immune system. Aluminium is also injected in the presence of polysorbate 80. Polysorbate 80 is used with some chemo treatments in brain tumours to open the blood-brain barrier. Aluminium + open blood-brain barrier.
I’m frequently seeing children who have never had a fever and don’t get acute infectious diseases [which are necessary for maturing the immune system] either because they are too weak or they are vaccinated and there are not the opportunities. I’m also seeing children who’ve been directly injured by vaccines and have descended into severe autistic states.
I’ve seen children who regressed into autism after antibiotics and I see children who’ve been clearly suppressed from eczema to asthma and then to psychosis by the continual use of steroids. Conventional medicine is the 3rd cause of death in the USA. Only a fraction of deaths and injuries are reported. Many deaths and injuries happen after time has passed. We all know at least someone who died or was injured as a result of drug side effects or medical treatments.
Conventional medicine is driving down the health of all populations.
Now, only 5% of our patients are in the upper levels of health.
200 years ago, in Samuel Hahnemann’s time … whilst he was railing against conventional treatments that killed faster than they cured … 95% were in the upper levels despite poverty and poor sanitation. Our health should have improved with improved sanitation & availability of food. Yet, it has plummeted, particularly since the advent of vaccines.
We look back on C19th medicine as a dark age and yet we have so many more treatments that are both more barbaric and more lethal and we blindly trust.
This post is a response to a question about drug withdrawal symptoms sent during a live Q&A session in our support group “Treating Children’s Anxiety Naturally”.
How can homeopathy help people cope with withdrawal from psychotropic medications?
Drug withdrawal symptoms can often look just like the symptoms you started the drug for. It’s worth researching the withdrawal symptoms carefully if you are coming off a med and then you know what you need to look for. They are temporary but can be difficult to live through, meaning that people often return to the drugs they are trying to withdraw.
Our first action is to deal with the problem the drug was prescribed for, helping the person with that problem and then helping them withdraw psychotropic drugs with the cooperation of their conventional prescriber.
Safety first. It’s a great idea to have supervision from the conventional prescriber, who has a set up to catch you if you fall. We want to get you through the process safely.
1. I consult with the patient to find the symptoms that occurred originally that necessitated the prescription of a psychotropic drug. Most people have little trouble remembering them as they were usually strong and memorable and people usually forget to take meds at some point and have a relapse. Also, sometimes some or all of the symptoms remained despite the psychotropic drug.
I need to distinguish and exclude the symptoms that are side effects of the med.
Then I give the needed homeopathic remedy to the patient and monitor the changes. Usually, we see that the patient comes to gradually need a lower dose of the med and their conventional prescriber will recognise this and begin to lower the dose. Sometimes this is not obvious and the patient might propose to their prescriber a lowering of the dose as a trial.
2. When the dose is lowered enough that the patient decides they want to stop the psychotropic med [or decides with the collaboration of their prescriber that they will trial coming off] we review the withdrawal symptoms of the drug and keep a note of what to look out for. At this point, we might repeat the remedy we used originally if needed to help with any withdrawal symptoms. We might need a different remedy for the symptoms.
3. The next stage after the withdrawal symptoms settle and the patient feels stable is to homeopathically detox the remaining side-effects of the psychotropic medication. This can be done with the medication itself in homeopathic form. This can often bring good improvements not just with obvious side-effects but with overall feeling of being more ‘well’. If there were medications that are thought to have contributed to the mental health problem in the first place [medications such as steroids can have side effects such as psychosis for example] these medications can also be detoxed and would usually be detoxed first and foremost.
4. The 4th stage is to work with the patient to further raise their level of health. Often, old symptoms or problems return. They were not resolved but more overtaken by a deeper illness. When we see old symptoms coming back we know that the patient is at an earlier, higher stage of health. The intention is to work with these symptoms with remedies until we raise the level of health to a point high enough that they can weather traumas without relapsing.
I have also used this method to help people overcome withdrawal for recreational drugs. One case was a baby born addicted due to exposure in utero. Another was the side effects of cannabis use.
I hope this has been a useful explanation.
If you need help with drug withdrawal symptoms or a mental health problem my 15 min free call is the best way to discuss this with me. www.calendly.com/sallylloydhomeopathy
I’m looking to talk to you about arsenic detox and where arsenic toxicity might be coming in from.
I was busy writing a reply to this steemit post: https://steemit.com/health/@mgibson/does-rice-increase-your-weight by @mgibson, but it got a bit too long and involved. So, rather than dumping it in his replies, I turned it into a blog. [You can find and upvote my version of it here … it is the same as this article.]
Beyond the glycemic index issues around weight gain with rice I want to let people know there are arsenic toxicity issues and how to avoid them and still eat rice.
I read that we sometimes will make fat cells to lock away toxic substances and that it is very difficult to get your body to liberate fat before detoxing those substances as your body will hold on to that fat to keep the toxins locked away. Maybe the detoxifying action of drinking lots of water is behind the recommendation to drink to encourage fat loss, but I suspect there will be other more complex metabolic processes involved also.
I notice a pattern in my daily practice as a homeopath treating autistic children: very high rates of arsenic in their hair tests when they come from an ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent. This is the case even when they were born and live in the UK and the USA.
I asked my husband about this. Was it in well water? Was it transferred down from mother to child because I was seeing high levels of arsenic in children who were born in the USA who hadn’t drunk arsenic contaminated water?
He said it is likely to be from a diet rich in rice grown in arsenic-rich soils and directed me to this article
Recommendations for avoiding arsenic from rice consumption:
Sourcing rice from regions with lower grain inorganic arsenic concentrations – for example, basmati rice is two to three-fold lower in inorganic arsenic than rice from the European Union or from the US. Cooking rice in a large excess of water also helps to remove inorganic arsenic. link.
Need an Arsenic Detox?
There are quite a few ways to detox arsenic. One of the gentlest and most effective is through homeopathic detox. [This is something I need to do regularly with patients]. Homeopathic detox is not without its challenges and it is good to be taking lots of vitamin c, and daily recommended doses of zinc, magnesium and selenium to support detox.
There are also other ways involving chelation, but they can be pretty heavy on the adrenal system and organs. Andy Cutler talks lots about this method. Plenty of info on google.
