Brody's daily cocktails

Brody sure does love his drinks. Lately he hasn't loved it as much due to the fact that his lame and mean Mommy (me) keeps mixing up cocktails which includes his sugar free juice or non-dairy milk and some of the following (which he needs to have all in one day):

Liquid multivitamin 7.5 ml (so strong that a few drops in every drink)

Vitamin D (4-5 drops)

HTP (break open the capsules) 4 capsules

Cod Fish Liver Oil (1 teaspoon)

Probiotic (1 capsules a day 25 billion CFU's)

DMG (1 pill crushed a day)

These are part of Brody's daily supplements and vitamins that help his body to improve in his brain and digestion. Doctors are finally catching up to what many parents already know - children with autism have physical symptoms that are related to the mental disorder. The Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center have had more conferences about the relation.

Brody has a sensory issue with food so a multivitamin is perfect cause he doesn't get enough nutrition. Vitamin D helps his immune system which has always been poor which for the first 3 years meant constant ear infections and lots of colds. Cod Fish Liver Oil helps his body absorb the nutrients he gets from food. The probiotic helps put the good bacteria in his body because his 13 doses of antibiotics in a year and a half that is old pediatrician prescribed killed off all the bacteria in his body thus resulting in a yeast build up in his gut. The DMG is to get his body ready for B-12 shots that he will get sometime within the next 6 months to a year. The HTP might sound strange to some who might be familiar with it - especially 4 pills a day. But HTP regulates a persons serotonin levels which affect appetite, mood and sleeping patters among other things. Brody has issues with all of those things. Children with autism have problems with seretonin.

Brody has had most of these supplements (some are newer additions) since November of last year. Lets just say I feel it helps the real Brody start peeking through. He is happy, content, less tantrums, looks healthier, saying more words, bowel movements have become regulated, eye contact is better and just in general seems better.

This is all part of the biomedical approach. For us it is no cure, no dramatic change, just little by little and bit by bit the boy I was meant to have is slowly working his way back to me!!