Why Children's Brains Go Awry

A Final Word

Why Children's Brains Go Awry.

by Doug A. Kaufmann

With amazement, I read a 2001 research paper that three doctors had written. It opened with this paragraph: "Conduct disorder is a psychiatric syndrome occurring in childhood and adolescence, and is characterized by a longstanding pattern of violations of rules and antisocial behavior....Approximately 6 to 16 percent of boys and 2 to 9 percent of girls meet the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder. The incidence of conduct disorder increases from childhood to adolescence."

Does that say up to 16 percent of boys? That's 10,000,000 boys afflicted with behavioral disorders! Can that be? Ironically, scientists, including examining physicians, have completely overlooked the cause in favor of quick diagnoses and drug therapies.

The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) lists thousands of drug side effects within its thousands of pages. Any psychiatrist, pediatrician or family physician can peruse a drug's known side effects before prescribing, but apparently none has done that or the "disease" hyperactivity would not exist in such unbelievable numbers. The one drug given to virtually every child, amoxicillin, has many potential side effects, most notably "hyperactivity."

If only 16 percent of boys taking amoxicillin were adversely affected by it...wait, those numbers have already been done!

Amoxicillin side effects may include: agitation, anemia, anxiety, changes in behavior, colitis, confusion, convulsions, diarrhea, dizziness, hives, hyperactivity, insomnia, liver problems and jaundice, nausea, peeling skin, rash, tooth discoloration in children, vomiting... Notice especially the amoxicillin side effects of "anxiety" and "changes in behavior." Or what about "agitation" and "confusion"?

This data suggests that brain disorders in children have an iatrogenic etiology. This means that they are actually caused by the drugs that doctors prescribe. What doctor in his right mind would believe that amoxicillin has caused millions of cases of brain disorders? None...and therein lies the problem.

If I might venture out even more, perhaps I can even prove why amoxicillin causes such terrible behavioral alterations.

Dr. Jay Lombard was, at the time he wrote his book, The Brain Wellness Plan, an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Cornell University. He dedicates Chapter 12 to the debilitating neurological disease, autism.

Dr. Lombard discovered that the drug Nystatin, an antifungal drug, caused the child's hyperactivity to decrease, while also favorably affecting eye contact and even bowel habits, which can plague autistic children. He contends that an intestinal overgrowth of fungus, due to a weakened immune system or xcessive antibiotic intake, may cause inflammation in autistic children. And I contend that he's close!

The side effects of amoxicillin are not listed in the PDR within the context of taking "excessive" doses. Arguably, one dose can cause cerebral aberrations. There are two facts that need to be highlighted in this article: 1) Antibiotics are fungal poisons, called mycotoxins; 2) several mycotoxins are known to be neurotoxic. This means that brain cells can be poisoned by them. Nystatin kills the yeast that overgrow in the child's intestine after swallowing antibiotics. Natural antifungal agents and probiotics should be discussed with the child's physician.

Just as swallowing poison will evoke a systemic response, in some cases this is likely true of antibiotics also, especially when the patient has an immature immune system. That's the final word!

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