Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy!!!
I love to eat my food!. My favorite things to eat right now are: hamburgers without the bun, white rice, white rice and beans (red, pink, white and black), chicken - especially the Rotisserie chicken and Honey Rice Cereal. I also enjoy eating millet bread and hot rice cereal. Of course I absolutely love to eat chips (tortilla chips and potato chips) and french fries but they are not allowed foods in the list of things that I can eat. I vary my favorites often and I get tired of some things after a while.
As many kids with Autism, I follow a Special Diet.
Researchers believe that children with Autism have problems digesting some foods because they can't break down certain proteins which can lead to the creation of toxins in their bodies. These can evolve into bacteria overgrowth (the bad one, the good bacteria is as a matter of fact, less than what it needs to be due to the bad bacteria overtaking its place) and yeast overgrowth. Notice the word "overgrowth" - the presence is significantly higher than what we all have.
Excess yeast and bad bacteria can produce damage to the gut and then the toxins have a way in to go into the bloodstream and eventually to all your body (including the brain).
Yeast is VERY hard to get rid off and it keeps on producing toxins on its own, permeatting them through the gut to the body constantly. Some researchers have identified these toxins as similar to opioids. That makes a lot of sense when you see the behavior of some kids with Autism as being in another world, with their own hallucinations and the mood swings (laughing and then crying). Sounds similar to drug effects, doesn't it?
Why does this happen is believed to be as the result of a weak digestive immune system. The digestive immune system is the most important immune system we have, but for an unknown reason, it can be weak in some kids and unable to perform its function appropiately. This is also why it is believed that kids with a weak digestive system are unable to get rid of chemicals like those found in the vaccines.
Not all the kids who get vaccinated develop Autism, but if they are prone to it by having a weak immune system, then, they will be unable to get rid of the tremendous load of heavy metals, toxins and chemicals that enter their body and it will be like poison for them.
Excess antibiotics can also be very dangerous to kids with weak digestive immune systems. If many antibiotics are prescribed to a small child due to for example, recurrent ear infections (which are believed to be yeast overgrowth and not necesarily need to be treated with an antibiotic), the antibiotics will kill the bad bacteria but also the good bacteria in the gut and it will only contribute to more bad bacteria and yeast overtaking the place of the good bacteria, thus creating more problems in an already compromised gut who doesn't know how to break down certain proteins.
There is no way right now to diagnose or identify a weak digestive immune system to distinguish what kids can be harmed by vaccines and what kids will be ok, or really, less harmed.
That is why it is such a personal decision to decide if a child should be vaccinated in the typical way or if a different approach should be taken. One approach could be skip the vaccines completely. Another can be to have a more relaxed schedule for vaccinations over a longer period of time and to have them one by one. Even to decide if they are all really necessary or if only a few would be enough. If we had to do it all over again, we would definetely go with a different approach than the typical.
The sad part is that most pediatricians dismiss this so easily that parents are left to their own to find the information they need to make a responsible decision.
