Started Flagyl to Fight Clostridia

It was a crazy week and I did not have much time to update the Blog. Jonathan had an outstanding week at the daycare. They are transitioning him from Group 4 (3.5 to 4.5 year old kids) to Group 5 (4.5 to 5.5 year old kids). The first attempt last January was a complete disaster. He regressed emotionally and socially. I was a bit scared to make this move, but I made the decision to prepare him for Kindergarden. He will be in a classroom full of 5 year old kids and he needs to be ready. He went twice, and he liked it so much he didn't want to go back to group 4. The ABA therapist told me that he did very well, he did not take offense for kids that ignored him, and he introduced himself to a couple of kids and asked their names and what they were doing. This week he will continue to transition slowly.

On Saturday, Jonathan had a small ceremony at the Gym where he went a couple of days a week since last September. He participated in their preschool program, which was filled with sensory activities plus gymnastics. As I mentioned in the last blog, Jonathan could not climb or jump when he started. Now he got an award for climbing to the top of the net (a really tall one). It was a very nice ceremony. Emotional.








Flagyl

I started giving Jonathan Flagyl antibiotic on Saturday to address the possible Clostridia he might have. I doubled the amount of probiotics and colostrum to make sure that his gut stays in good health.

On Saturday he did well. I did not see much of a change. I did see a bit more strange gestures that I had not seen as much in a long time. He used to move his head to the side whenever he attempted to talk to me when he was little and first diagnosed. That was there for a while and slowly went away. He still does it sometimes, but this weekend it was so frequent that it annoyed me. He moves his head to the side as he tries to make eye contact and then moves it to the other side. It makes him look more autistic than he really is.

Today that head movement was really annoying. And he spent a very long time playing with his PC. He played with Vanessa a bit but not as much as he had been doing in the past 2 weeks. We went to a birthday party and he played a bit in the playground and then stopped. He told me that his tummy hurt. And he ate very very little today (not like him). But he did not have any sensory problems, greeted everyone, didn't mind the crowd, didn't have a sensory overload. That is a good sign that the Clostridia or some other bacteria that is really causing trouble might be dying and the yeast is not growing (yet).

I definitely see behavioral regressions (again, more towards awkward body movements and a bit of aloofness possibly because his tummy bothers him), but he is still very engaged with us and Vanessa and his language is still improving. I am going to be pretty strict and continue this antibiotic until I finish it (10 days) and then continue with a couple of supplements that Yasko suggests for Clostridia.

Tonight he initiated a hide and seek game with Vanessa and came to ask me if I wanted to play with him. We played for a while. He wanted to bathe with Vanessa (he never likes to do that) and they put soap on each others' arms and legs and tummies. And when I took him to bed, he told me that he was scared of monsters, so I closed all the closet doors and told him that this is a good and happy house and monsters don't come to this house. And he stayed in bed peacefully.