I know the new test is a little more difficult to read. The orange bar in the center is the median range, but the actual range is much larger than that, and spans the entire distance to the black lines on either side of the orange bar. If his results were considered high or low for a category, there would be a red H or L in the number column and the diamond would be outside of the normal range with a red diamond.
Those tests say more than anything I can write here! HPHPA from 413 to 26?!?! Yeast at normal levels?!?! Clostridia was a ***ch to fight, antibiotics never worked, natural antimicrobials kept things almost at bay, but we couldn't remove them without a significant backslide, and who wants their child on high doses of antimicrobials three times a day, indefinitely? I can say, with certainty, that these probiotics are our saving grace. They do everything they say they do!
We have Gavin's results too, but since it was our first OAT for him, we have nothing to compare to. His 3-oxoglutaric was just slightly elevated, which means he had a little bit of a yeast overgrowth, but nothing else showed markers of dysbiosis and no bacteria issues, although his numbers were slightly higher than Grayson's. I'm sure the results directly related to the dose of the probiotics, because Grayson was worked up to 6 capsules and Gavin was only at 3. A friend's daughter who is the same age as Gavin, was also at 6 capsules and her numbers look almost exactly like Grayson's. She had confirmed Clostridia with a level of 393 in December, plus a confirmed case of Candida Krusei. Her results are clean for Candida Krusei and her HPHPA (clostridia) marker came down to 22! Also in just under one and a half months! We have also had two mainstream stool tests done on Gavin and both the bacteria and yeast testing came back completely clean, they were done more recently. I don't normally put a lot of weight in these tests, but our friend's yeast testing resulted in two forms of yeast at one point, so I know they can pick things up, if they are there. Regardless, the OAT and the stool testing are my confirmation that things are under control, with NO ANTIMICROBIALS OR ANTIBIOTICS! What a breath of fresh air to say that!
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With the good news comes the bad...isn't that always the way? When we ran our battery of tests on the boys, we have finally confirmed PANDAS (among other things, including a compound heterozygous gene mutation) for Grayson. I have always suspected it, but never had the titers to prove it, well now I do. He was in a flare and sure enough both titers came out over 400. My motto is and has always been....one day at a time. My research continues!
Now we are focusing on the PANDAS, and hoping that the complimentary combination of the probiotics and homeoapthy will do the trick. Stay tuned!
