Gold Nautilus Award. You've known something was missing from your approach to support your autistic child, and now you have the protocols to help your child sleep better, feel better, behave better, and be ready to connect with the world and learn.
Your child deserves to get a good night's sleep, be in a good mood, and feel their best, like any other child.
Dr. Janet Lintala, founder of the Autism Health center and an autism mom herself, shares the science behind the non-prescription protocols used in her practice to dramatically improve the function and well-being of autistic children and adults.
Children and adults on the spectrum are more prone to constipation and diarrhea, acid reflux, gastrointestinal infections and imbalances, brain inflammation, immune problems, disrupted sleep patterns and difficult behaviors. Well-meaning doctors target these symptoms with prescription medications, kind of like a matching game. Dr. Lintala has nothing against using medications appropriately. The problem is the medications are used to suppress symptoms (constipation, poor sleep patterns and difficult behaviors) without correcting or supporting the underlying medical problems that are causing them.
These medications often have side effects such as constipation that make the original problems even worse. When that happens, the dose is increased until what the author calls finding the "shut-up" dose. Again, the underlying problems are unaddressed, left to simmer beneath the surface for years until they develop into chronic illnesses.
Supporting these overlooked conditions appropriately can bring transformative results.
No more:
·constipation
·diarrhea
·acid reflux
·aggression
·irritability
·night awakenings
·catching every cold coming and going
Better:
·thinking
·mood
·sleep
·language (for some)
·learning
Drawing on the latest research developments, as well as personal and clinical experience, Dr. Lintala targets the underlying issues with simple, step-by-step protocols for families everywhere.
Any age—children, teens, and adults—can benefit.
The Un-Prescription for Autism provides hundreds of research citations, clear explanations, detailed protocols, and stories from her clinic to help parents act quickly to restore their child's health, self-control, and language--paving the way for reaching their full potential.
The Un-Prescription for Autism is available in English and in French. It has earned back its advance and I am receiving royalties now that are increasing with each 6-month period because sales are still strong. It has sold over 25,000 copies including paperback, Kindle, Audible and foreign sales. The highest sales ranking it has achieved on Amazon was under 5000 and the lowest is #939,000.
You Are What You Don’t Poop.Digestive Enzymes with DPP-IV.“Have you fa-a-awted?” When my husband Alan was in medical school, he had a roommate who nailed their attending physician’s accent and signature line. On hospital rounds, checking on postsurgical patients, he’d sing it loudly from the doorway as he strode into a patient’s room without so much as a hello, his flock of medical students trailing him, startling and often embarrassing the unsuspecting man or woman in the bed.Anesthesia and opiate pain medications, such as morphine, are notorious for shutting down the bowels and causing opioid-induced constipation (OIC). If you’ve ever had surgery, you may recall that you were not released to go home until you had a bowel movement or at least passed gas; the doctor or nurse checking on you had to be certain that your bowels had awakened from the opiate coma. Or, if you’ve ever been on pain meds like Lortab or Oxycontin, you probably remember how constipated you were.Up to 70 percent of autistic children suffer from chronic constipation, which can lead to sleep disruptions and aggressive behaviors. Prescription medications that address sleep or aggression issues can be helpful, but most have an undesirable side effect—constipation!This creates a vicious cycle of more sleep disruption and aggression. Until the bowels are moving on a daily or near-daily basis, not much else can be accomplished.Treatment Tip:Constipation Must Be Treated First Job one on the path to your child’s improved health is getting rid of his constipation.There are generally three approaches:Give MiraLAX, stool softeners, and enemas for the rest of his life. (Ugh—for everybody!)Begin the gluten-free, casein-free (GFCF) diet.(Yikes! What can we eat?) Find an easy way to “fake” the GFCF diet. (I vote for this one!) Before I explain how to fake this diet, let’s explore what it is. The GFCF Diet
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