Hi,

My daughter is 20 mos old, and she is having major problems.

She is having problems with digestion. Things come out barely digested. Her stools are brown, light, and FOUL, with a capital F!

She is breastfed, now only at nap and sleep time, but this is an ongoing problem.

She is not a good eater, she has problems eating solids. She is also not a good chewer. She was 8 lbs and 8 oz at birth, she is now 10-11 kilos and 34 inches tall.

She is just starting to talk, and is significantly developmentally delayed in speech, eating, behavior, and understanding speech.

She has big almond eyes, and a huuuuuge head (very round, 19.5 inches around). She also has a huuuuge belly, but thin elsewhere. She has circles under her eyes. She loves to draw and meows.

She has been on a gluten free/casein free, soy free diet since birth as my son (4 years old) has high functioning autism. She is thought to be autistic also, low functioning.

Is there anything I can do homeopathically to help her, esp in her digestion, etc.

Please advise!!

Um Muhammad

Two autistic children in the same family, what's going on here? Have they had vaccines? I'll be interested to see what others have to say about this. I'm coming up with Calcarea but know little about developmental problems such as these.

If not vaccine damage then it would suggest a powerful miasmatic influence to produce two autistic children in the same family. If a link can be drawn between vaccination and these children's problems , I might also suggest Silicea.

Enlarged abdomen with marasmus, - bar-c, CALC, sanic, sars

Large head - apis, bar-c, caj, calc, calc-p, coloc, cor-r, graph, hell, kali-i, merc, op, sil, sulph

Slow learning to talk - agar, bac, bar-c, bell, bor, calc, calc-p, carbn-s, carc, caust, mag-c, med, NAT-M, nat-p, nux-m, ph-ac, phos, puls, sanic, sil, sulph, thuj, tub, vip.

Mental development arrested - agki-p, aur, bac, bar-c, calc-p, chap, nitro-o, per, syph, thuj, tub.


Keep in mind both Calc-p and Bar-c as other useful remedies.

Baryta-carb:

Children who are backward mentally and physically...with swollen abdomen.
Emaciation, swollen abdomen, and difficult learning in children.
Slow in learning to talk.
Too weak to chew, too lazy to eat.
Hungry but refuses food.
Can only swollow liquids.
Children who don't thrive.

Bar-c is complementary to Psor, which is my first thought for the really foul stool.




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David Kempson
Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine
Member A.H.A(Australia)

David,

What kind of miasm would produce autism?

Here is an interesting article:
http://www.renresearch.com/autism.html

All the best,
Lisa

I agree on both counts:
Calc looks the most likely.
Vaccinations are important - please list.
Does she/ her stool smell predominantly sour?

Hi,

Both kids are non-vaccinated, at all. I had homebirth, so on.

My husbands' brother has high functioning autism and his family on his mom's side are very autistic spectrum like.

I got the Measles shot at age 18, got preg with my oldest son 5 years later.... I got the hep b series at age 20, got pregnant at age 22....

I never had pitocin(another theory).

I really don't know why they are autistic.... They were born this way, not the kids who are vaccine damaged. My older son does better on the gfcf diet (so diet is an influence) but for my daughter, it doesn't seem to matter.

Soooo..,,,,does that help any??

Um Muhammad

Oh, yes, the sour stool,

not really sour, just foul. Very smelly and full of undigested food.

um muhammad

Hi,

On the note of the remedies mentioned.

We haven't tried any on my daughter.

My son has had:

Sulphur (helped at the time)
Calc Carb(helped at the time)
Calcarea (no help_)
Calc Carb (no help)
Silicea (no help)
Phos(no help)
Tuberculinum(no help_)
Carcin(no help)

This is all over a 2 year period. The strengths were 200 or 1m.

Um Muhammad(realizing we are talking about My daughter, not my son, but just an aside)

I advise Calc Phos 1M, one dose once only. If you decide to take this advice please report back with results.

REP
large head [thanks to David for expanded rubric]
children, retarded
stool, lienteric
stool offensive
marasmus