Complex Autism Case Shows Multi-System Improvements

The following testimonial is excerpted from pages 419-422 of Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism, 2nd Edition by Kerri Rivera, published in 2014.

The book outlines a protocol in which chlorine dioxide is a key component. More recent editions have since been released with updated information.

A link to the full book in PDF format is provided at the bottom of this page.

My now 8-year-old daughter was dx with autism at 18 months old. Started GF/ CF diet and started with a DAN! She slowly made progress with speech, had a few words, a few 2 and 3 word sentences, and despite having autism, she was always a happy, calm, sweet little girl. Shortly after her 3rd birthday, she “changed.’ She became more of a Jekyll / Hyde personality, and all progress in speech and improvements in eye contact and sociability started to fade. Seemed like everything we did was just like yo-yoing back and forth between improving, and then crashing yet once again.

Last year at this time, we had just left the doctor we had been taking her to. For years she was on antivirals, antifungals, antibiotics on and off, SSRI’s, Tenex, and when her violent SIB had become so bad the second year into treatment with him, he put her on Abilify. SSRI’s and the Abilify did nothing for her except make her behave worse. Neither did any of the other things he had her on. The first year she was doing pretty good, but possibly because the antivirals were acting as an anti-inflammatory. She always had chronic constipation with loose stools/ diarrhea. Nothing helped that either. We finally left that doctor who yelled at us in his office for 20 min straight, in front of my daughter, because he did not like that I had been challenging him on all of this for the past 6 months. I was no longer going to let him put the blame on us and everyone else… that her ABA and speech therapists didn’t know what they were doing, and telling us she acted out this way because we didn’t know how to give proper time outs or how to correctly give “pep talks” at bedtime. I was convinced that she had PANDAS/PANS and/or parasites that were causing her ever increasing SIB, loss of all progress she had made in speech over the past 4 years, and the fact that she had not grown in 4 years…did not gain 1 pound, feet did not grow at all, and she only grew 1/2 inch in height in that 4 year span. We had taken her to a very well respected endocrinologist the previous summer who ran all the tests. Could find nothing wrong as to why she wasn’t growing. But he decided to put her on HGH anyway. Thankfully, we left and decided not to give her the HGH. We also took her to one of the best Ped Psychiatric doctors at UCLA who specialized in autism that summer. He observed her, her SIB happened right there in his office for him to see. He said her SIB is coming from pain, discomfort, something medical going on inside, most likely stemming from her gut. He suggested we get her scoped upper and lower. So we did. The only thing that came up was on the upper endoscopy, and that was that she had esophageal gastritis. So the GI dr gave her Nexium.

All the parasite stool tests we had done over the years had always come back neg except for one at age 3 came back with Giardia. But that was it. So last January, when we had finally left that her doctor of 3 years, her liver AST and ALT were at 130 and 135, her Creatinine (kidneys) were severely elevated at a dangerous level, she now had hypothyroidism, and after testing her cortisol thru blood and saliva we discovered she was barely making any at all. She had dark circles under her eyes, grinding her teeth for 3 years now, and agitated beyond belief ALL the time. Mind you when we started with him 3 years prior, her thyroid, liver, and kidneys were all in normal range. She did have dark circles, many many food allergies, some SIB, but nothing compared what we were dealing with now, or what was to come.

So now, what to do. We took her to a very highly recommended Pediatric GI in Los Angeles who was very nice. Listened to what we had to say. Ran the most sensitive and comprehensive stool analysis. Came back with nothing at all. Then took her to the head of pediatric Infectious Disease at Cedars Sinai. She obviously had her mind made up before she even walked in the door. She saw the word AUTISM on my daughter’s chart, and that was it. I showed her every blood and stool test, explained the not growing at all for 4 years despite all the endocrinology labs said everything related to growth was in normal range, her severe SIB. She said to us…”I know you want to help your child. You want to find something “medical” that has caused her autism so you can fix it. But the truth is, your daughter has autism. You need to accept that, and take her to a pediatric psych dr who can help her with these SIB’s. There are lots of meds that can help her be calmer.” Had she not listened to one damn word I told her!!! All the meds we had tried in the past did nothing, already took her to a psych dr who specialized in autism telling us something internal was wrong. She would not run any blood tests, or any other kind of Infec Disease tests. So with that, my husband, my sister, and I completely dumbfounded started to walk out. The dr then had the nerve to say…”She hasn’t been vaccinated since 18 months (she was 7 here) Let’s get her caught up right now before you go. I can give her 6 vaccines today.” I looked at her and said you have got to be crazy! I am not giving my very sick child vaccines full of the poisons that did this to her.”

So a month later we started with doctor who “gets it.” Who listens, and treats parents with respect. Values their opinions. And the networking I had been doing for the past 6 months on a few different bio-med autism groups with other moms was paying off. The moms are the ones who KNOW!!! That’s how I found my daughter’s current doctor and how I found Dr Maile Pouls last June to help her with nutritional and metabolic healing. Dr Pouls ran a $100, 24 hour collection urine analysis, and we found out she had severe malabsorption, Ph was too Alkaline, she was catabolic, extremely electrolyte and mineral deficient, severely Vit C and D deficient, and had severe bowel toxicity. Working with Dr Pouls and her new doctor lead them to suspect parasites/worms. I was encouraged to look into mms, but of course I had heard nothing but bad things like it’s bleach. I was very hesitant to try it, but I researched it, and sought out other moms on Facebook who were doing it. The toxins from the parasites had completely taken over her body and brain. She was SIB almost all day, every day by now. It was pure hell. We thought we were going to lose our minds it was so bad. We had stopped taking her anywhere but school and dr’s appointments for the past 2 years because she would just suddenly out of nowhere, for no reason, violently freak out and there was no way to help her calm down. Her doctor said she’s so toxic, and her body is so sick that she can’t detox. That the mms will not only help kill, but will neutralize the toxins and help her calm down. So we started mms, and I could not believe how much calmer, happier, and more present she was in just a week. MMS is literally saving her life, and bringing her back to us. Before starting mms, we did just parasite meds like Alinia and Mebendazole. The parasite meds alone did not help her, even though she was dumping worms, but she was still completely psychotic, and getting more crazy and manic every day. Since starting mms she has dumped hundreds of worms, some 10-12” long, ascaris eggs, TONS and TONS of the shedded skins of the worms, tons of liver flukes, and hundreds of tapeworm segments. We had not done any PP yet. This had all been with MMS only! We actually started Albendazole for treating tapeworm about a month ago and saw immediate improvements with it. It really seems like this is her biggest beast right now to deal with.

These are her labs from before MMS, and after starting MMS:

2/7/2012 – one month after leaving scumbag dr of 3 years

AST = 79 ALT = 108 Creatinine = 1.24 EOS = 11.2 Sed Rate = 9 ~ Started MMS 11/23/2012 ~

12/4/2012

AST = 73 ALT = 64 Creatinine = 1.32

1/15/2013

AST = 61 ALT = 60 Creatinine = 1.30

2/27/2012

AST = 51 ALT = 42 Creatinine = 0.92 EOS = 5.1 Sed rate = 12 Ref Range for AST is [15 – 46] ALT is [3 – 35]

Ref Range for Creatinine (kidney) is [0.60 – 1.20] Shows how well kidneys are working. Anything close to or over the 1.20 is considered to be of serious concern

Ref Range for EOS (eosinophils) is [0.00 – 3.0] * High EOS are always seen with parasites

Ref Range for Sed Rate (marker for inflammation) is [0 – 10]

Her doctor said her Sed Rate is likely high because when killing off pathogens and detoxing, inflammation will go up temporarily.

So I say never give up. Don’t listen to doctors who don’t listen to you. Kerri, thank God you saw those bottles of MMS at the clinic that day and asked what they were. And that you bought some out of curiosity and tried it. And that you selflessly have taken what you’ve learned and experienced, and shared it. Given so much of your time to help others, to help heal and recover their kids. You are truly an amazing person. We finally have the answers to our daughters autism after almost 7 years of numerous doctors and specialists, so many tests, so much money and valuable time wasted… and now we finally have real hope…real results. We know without a doubt she is going to get healthy, which will in turn

give her the happy joyful life back that she once had before she got “autism.” ~

xoxo