Bio-Film the Slime Monster Exists

Bio-Film The Slime Monster Exists

We learned Daniel had Autism just before his first 3rd birthday in 2008. Looking back, all the signs were there from the beginning. Along with typical behavioral signs, there were many medical symptoms as well. Colic, Chronic ear infections, athlete's Foot, Insomnia, and the most associated were irregular bowel movements. Daniel maybe had one solid poop during the first three years of his life.

He had B.M.S 2-3 times a day and not just a little here and there I'm talking large, Stinky poop that varied from mashed potatoes to soft - serve ice cream. Many children with autism battle with constipation, but Daniels was quite the opposite. I knew this couldn't be normal, and when I questioned his pediatrician, it was dismissed as being merely an underdeveloped GI tract, and it would work itself out.

One of the new instincts we mothers acquire when we have children is that of a mother bear. The need to protect our children at all cost. So when I heard about the work the DAN Organization was doing with children living with autism, I thought if this has worked even for just one kid Ill try it, and I will not let this Condition Take my son from me.

So along with environmental pollutants/Heavy metal overload, and numerous food allergies, His labs also showed he had Leaky Gut syndrome. In short, Leaky Gut is the term used when your GI tract allows substances that it shouldn't pass from the intestines into the bloodstream. How does leaky gut happen? Well, there are a lot of factors, and one of them is called Candida troublesome yeast that lives in your GI Tract. Daniel had 4X the amount of yeast a normal person should have.

So my question, of course, was He's three years old, how can this happen? As I mentioned before Daniel had several ear infections in his first year, and of course, the conventional band-aid of an antibiotic was issued. Antibiotics disrupt the natural balance of good bacteria that live in your GI Tract. The good bacteria keep the bad yeast in check, and when wiped out by antibiotics, the yeast is free to flourish.

So by eliminating food allergies, greening our house, switching to a yeast control diet called SCD, adding supplements, and Anti-Fungal medication, we started down the road to recovery. His behavior improved immediately upon a diet change, and his bowel movements improved somewhat, but not totally. He was having smaller and less frequent B.M.S, but diarrhea persisted, Eventually, he started going 2-3 days without any B.M.S at all. For almost a year, we threw antifungal at him along with the SCD.

We hit a plateau, Now what? That's when I found out that the Slime Monster does exist, just not on the same scale as seen on TV! See the yeast in Daniels' G.I. Tract had built up a protective layer of film over itself, shielding it from antifungal agents. To get the antifungal to the yeast, we have to break up the biofilm barrier protecting it. The treatment to eliminate biofilm lasts about a month and consists of a strict regimen of antifungal and supplements. My Doctor warned me that it can be tough on kids, and we would see some changes during it that might not be so pleasant. I wanted to do it anyway, I felt like this could be the only chance we had to fix his poor little gut.

The first week on treatment, we didn't see any behavior change, but he immediately started having solid bowel movements. My doctor warned that when the film starts breaking up it would release toxins into the body, and although we gave him something for the toxins to bind to, it still affected him, because in the second week, his behavior set in. He became Fatigued, Very Irritable, had Increased Tantrums, Loss of appetite, and of course, we saw some regression. There was a point when I asked myself, What am I doing to this poor kid? and wanted to bag the whole thing. Not only did his behavior stink, So did his poop.

The saying, "Something crawled up there and died,, took on a whole new meaning. I cannot begin to describe the smell we had so endured, but it was worth it because by the third week, he began to get back to normal. His behavior normalized, and his cognitive abilities improved! He had solid bowel movements every day, and best of all, he started talking more than he had ever done. By the fourth week, the smell wasn't so bad, and he acted like a new kid. On a scale of 1-10, I give the Bio-Film treatment a 10!

Today Daniel is still doing well, his bowel seems to be functioning normally. Now and then we have occasional setbacks, usually do to something he ate. It seems with autism, there are always some battles we have to fight, but as parents, that is our job.

Thank you, Dr. Smith, for all your help.

Natalie Sparks

Richland, WA