kepsy
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Post by kepsy on Dec 10, 2005 4:03:59 GMT -5
Hi, I am Kerryn, a mother of a 16 year old boy, Bradley, who was diagnosed severe autism at the age of 3 which isn't as severe as it used to be with all the early intervention we were lucky to receive at a very early age. Bradley is profoundly deaf also. I believe it was all caused from him being 3 months prem. Are there others that believe in the same reasoning? We don't have any other disabilities at all in our extended family...  |
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Post by momofautistic on Dec 13, 2005 10:23:22 GMT -5
My family doesnt have any other disabilties either and Jimmy was not premature but I had a yeast infection and they gave him antibiotics for 10 days after he was born. Did they give your child antibiotics? Cuz I have heard that antibiotics at such an early age can cause many different deficiencies.
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Post by dadharte on May 10, 2006 8:43:34 GMT -5
My boy Sam was about that premature as well. In the NICU he developed a really bad staph infection, it settled in the growth plate below his right knee. He was given the antibiotic of "last resort" (Vancomiacin - sp?) for several weeks. Seemed like a really long time. I mean, usually a course of antibiotics is 10 days, right?
He had to have surgery on the leg to "scrape out" the infected area, and they left a piece of gauze hanging out of the opening to "wick" out the fluid accumulating from the infection. Man what a hard time that was!
I always wondered if that killer antibiotic might have caused his PDD. But without it, there's no doubt he would have died.
Dadharte
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