Kefir

Have you looked into both Kefir, and Buckwheat flour?  Kefir to me, is a must for all autistic children.  It is a probiotic which is far superior to any other.  In the gut, it isn't just about killing the yeast, and starving it.  It is also about putting into the gut a very wide variety of lactos and beneficial yeasts, which push out the yeast.  If you don't fully coat the gut, then all you are doing is giving the yeast room to come back, and do its thing.  Which is why, so often, people have to continue to use antifungals unnecessarily.

     Kefir can be made from any type of milk, cow, goat or sheep, coconut, rice or soy. Although it is slightly mucous forming, the mucous has a "clean" quality to it that creates ideal conditions in the digestive tract for the colonization of friendly bacteria. 

     Kefir is made from gelatinous white or yellow particles called "grains." This makes kefir unique, as no other milk culture forms grains. These grains contain the bacteria/yeast mixture clumped together with casein (milk proteins) and complex sugars. They look like pieces of coral or small clumps of cauliflower and range from the size of a grain of wheat to that of a hazelnut. Some of the grains have been known to grow in large flat sheets that can be big enough to cover your hand!. The grains ferment the milk, incorporating their friendly organisms to create the cultured product. The grains are then removed with a strainer before consumption of the kefir and added to a new batch of milk. 

     A kefir starter culture is available by calling Body Ecology at: 800-511-2660, or going to our on-line store.

KBoth kefir and yogurt are cultured milk products, but they contain different types of beneficial bacteria. Yogurt contains transient beneficial bacteria that keep the digestive system clean and provide food for the friendly bacteria that reside there.  But kefir can actually colonize the intestinal tract, a feat that yogurt cannot match.