Biomedical Autism Treatment – Take Supplements With Caution

I have some advice for parents who are about to begin supplement therapy for their child with Autism and that is do not start them all at once. My recommendation comes after working with many, many children in my practice over the years. Whether your doctor gives you a list of 3 supplements, 5 supplements, or 10 supplements, start one at a time particularly when just beginning a biomedical protocol. It is very common for children with Autism to be sensitive mentally, physically and emotionally to therapy. So by starting everything at once you make it very hard to determine what may be working for your child and what they may be having a negative reaction to. We don’t mean serious side effects here from a supplement but you do want to know whether your child is adjusting well to a supplement and whether they are progressing with it.
As time goes on your child may end up being in multiple things. They could be doing supplement therapy, maybe treating yeast, they may be doing dietary intervention, maybe they are on Methyl B-12 or it could be other things. I always feel it is important to begin one thing at a time. One really good example of this is when I begin Methyl B-12 injections with a person. What I like to do is have them start this therapy for 5 to 6 weeks, and 6 weeks being the ideal, before beginning any other therapy during that time. And if I have say 5 or 6 supplements that I would like them to begin I start the parents out with a list and we go from one to the next, adding a new supplement only every 1 to 2 days. That way parents can provide feedback on what they may be seeing, good or bad, with their child. I also recommend that parents take notes about what they see in a calendar notebook of some kind so they can write down when they start a supplement and what the reactions are. Again, if you start too many things at once you may not be able to pinpoint which one is working or which one may be causing a negative reaction. Patience, starting one thing at a time and taking things slow will pay off in the long run when undertaking supplement and biomedical therapies.