www.enzymestuff.com/conditionviruses.htmThis is Karen DeFelice's site. The information here is easily understood and copious. She has many links that are invaluable. It is here that you can learn about the latest details available regarding the use of Virastop, an enzyme, to fight viral infections in our ASD children. Karen's yahoo group http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/enzymesandautism/might be of interest for those wishing to pursue this course of treatment.

www.danasview.net/parent3.htm#nidsThis is Dana's information on viral problems. Here she offers a great number of links, including information on the high dose vitamin A protocol for measles virus, PANDAS (which is a bacterial problem, but included), Lyme (which is also bacterial), Dr. Megson's work, and a number of other useful sites.

Dr. McCandless's book Children with Starving Brains offers a chapter called "Immunity, Autoimmunity, and Viruses (Or Other Pathogens). In it she offers some general background information on these issues: information on testing; a case history of one older child helped enormously by anti-viral interventions; and immunomodulators, immune boosters, and prescription anti-virals.

Stan Kurtz, who started the yahoo group http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mb12valtrex/is the father of a recovered child whose video you can see at the website www.recoveryvideos.com. This group may be helpful for people interested in using prescription antivirals, sharing experiences with parents of children who seem to have viral problems, and finding general viral information.

On this website Stan shared his views on viruses and metals in autism, and various treatment approaches (natural and prescription antivirals, including Valtrex/Diflucan combination that was crucial in his son's recovery from autism).

The DAN! view of the high dose Vitamin A protocol for measles virus can be found here www.vaccinetruth.org/vitamin_a.htm at the bottom of the page.

Very important to anyone considering the high dose vitamin A protocol:

You are NOT trying to induce toxicity or any signs of the measles.

Signs of toxicity include a scruffy looking rash around the neck, cracked lips, headache, nausea, vomiting, lethargy, unusual hyperactivity, dry/rough skin.

Dr. Amy Yasko, a researcher, has a protocol which highlights among other things the importance of addressing viruses--she believes they are implicated in the high body burdens of toxic metals many of our kids have. If you would like to learn more about the Yasko protocol, a good place to start is here at the parent discussion group http://www.ch3nutrigenomics.com/phpBB2/welcome.htmland here at Dr. Yasko's website http://www.holistichealth.com/Welcome.html

General information articles you may find helpful:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james16.htm Talks about the "overlooked relationship between infectious diseases and mental symptoms".

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2001/NOVEMBER/011115A.htm An article on the relationship between mother's Herpes Virus Infection and schizophrenia in her children.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=33614 An article entitled "Breakdown of myelin insulation in brain's wiring implicated in childhood developmental disorders"

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hs4523508nov22,0,7117992.story A general article on myelinization with the good news for our kids that it continues until around age 45.

Detailed information on Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), including discussion on possible treatments

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Click here for the HHV-6 foundation website