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Case study: hyperactivity with autism CASE STUDY: HYPERACTIVITY WITH AUTISM
The previous two cases illustrated a chemical- and a food-susceptibility problem, respectively. The case of ten-year-old Paul Rossi demonstrates the more common instance in which both food and chemical susceptibilities combine to create a serious illness.
Paul was an extreme case of hyperactivity. The examining physician in the Ecology Unit could not complete the admission interview, since Paul kicked, pushed, and shoved everybody around him, including his mother who was to stay with him.
Paul's temper tantrums had begun when he was thirteen months old. He appeared to be learning well, however, until his seventeenth month, when he suddenly started forgetting the words he had already learned. He seemed distant and unable to relate emotionally to those around him. When he reached school age, his parents attempted to place him in a public school, but to no avail. He could not learn, and was transferred from one school to another. He was finally placed in a school for problem children, a sheltered environment, where he was kept on tranquilizers most of the time. Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.
Watching this boy race around the examination room, overturning furniture and tearing papers, one could not help but feel sorry for this tortured child and his frustrated, agonized parents.
Paul had been diagnosed as "autistic." Autism is a strange disease in which the child, in effect, dreams his life away, seemingly unaware of external reality. He cannot form meaningful relationships, and has difficulty in learning or even speaking. Other doctors had suggested as treatment drugs, vitamins, or institutionalization. Before coming to the Ecology Unit, Mrs. Rossi had put Paul on the Feingold Diet, a mass-applicable approach which cautions against artificially-colored or -flavored items, as well as certain other types of food.3 The Feingold Diet, which eliminates some, but hardly all, of the synthetic pollutants in food, was useful, and Paul benefitted. Encouraged, Mrs. Rossi sought a more complete, personalized approach.
Paul's history revealed a tendency toward addiction to foods containing beet sugar, milk, corn, and oranges. These seemed to result in flare-ups of his behavior problems when he ate them in excess. He also appeared to be highly susceptible to environmental chemicals. When he was exposed to perfume, nail polish, or similar cosmetics he would frequently scream, kick, and bite for a few minutes, as if in a seizure.
Abstention from food for five days, in a chemically less contaminated environment, led to a marked improvement in his behavior. When he was given beef, and corn mush sprinkled with corn sugar, however, he threw a temper tantrum which was quite convincing as a test of food allergy to those around him. He also reacted to apricot, raisins, grape juice, yeast, beets and beet sugar, honey, lamb, and other foods. His mother had said that hot dogs seemed to bring on his symptoms at home. Most hot dogs contain beef, corn, and other foods identified as troublesome in the deliberate food tests.
We next took some of the organic foods to which Paul had not reacted in his food tests (such as honeydew, broccoli, and peas) and fed them to him for six successive meals in their commercial form—the type of food that he, and millions of other children and adults, eat every day. By the end of the sixth meal, there was a marked increase in his hyperactivity and irritability, and the symptoms of autism were also increased.
Paul turned out to be one of those people who must have truly organic food in order to stay well. If he does not get it he suffers from problems so severe that he becomes impossible for his parents to cope with. With it, despite the supposedly "incurable" nature of his problems, specifically autism, he is able to lead a normal life.
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