Hours of Research this weekend

Has lead to feeling lost. I feel like I know that this path is right for us to attempt at this time. I do not know how these things can be so damn expensive or how we will be moving forward with progress when our bank account will have to dictate what can be done instead of what needs to be done! I have been toying with the decision to call a DAN! doctor, but at $300 per hour I think our choice in that regard has been made for us at this time.

We are going to start with a urine test kit for Porphyrins that should give us an idea whether or not Jake has any toxins (metal like lead and mercury) in his urine. We are ordering this kit from Laboratoire Phillippe Auguste to self-administer at home and returning it to the lab for processing. Once we receive the results we will make an appointment with his pediatrician to review the results and see what our next move will be based on the info we receive.

We are also looking into two products to begin. Jake has always had sleep issues. He is up at all hours, he sometimes goes stretches through the night with hours of no sleep. So we are looking at added Melatonin to his initial supplement profile. We are also looking to add Cod Liver Oil to his juice. This is said to help with attention span, increased eye contact and help with speech development as well. We have seen that Nordic Naturals seems to be the brand most reccomended among the Autism community so that will be our product of choice. We are going with the unflavored liquid to hopefully easily add to juices.

Multi-vitamins are strongly reccomended so we are going to see about beginning Super Nu-Thera from Kirkman Labs .

This seems to be our starting point. I am ordering these items this week so that next week we can begin. I am planning on keeping a written document to record changes as well as update here. More to come I am sure!