[toddmorey]

Yes! My son who has autism would eat anything we put in front of him until age 3, when his weight, appetite and health suddenly and alarmingly crashed. Ever since that episode, he's had a much more restrictive diet and food preferences. Night and day.

They never successfully identified what happened. Just diagnosed it generally as failure to thrive.

[jtc331]

There’s some research on sudden onset autism being treated with antifungals; so at least sometimes a sudden change may be the result of something very specific in the gut.

[Aurornis]

There is not reasonable evidence supporting the idea that autism can be treated with antifungals.

Case reports are unreliable due to placebo effect.

The antifungal myth has been tested by too many well-meaning parents with no results.

[DANmode]

Telling people to just ignore microbes and the microbiome,

to stop pulling levers when they are not enjoying their time,

is medical injustice.

How long ago was it you were in threads calling the treatment method in TFA an unfounded crackpot myth?

[DANmode]

Azole antifungals destabilize biofilms,

often allowing the body to get a good run at any low-level chronic infections which have nested and protected themselves,

able to leave the biofilmed region and wreak havoc - even if only intermittently.

Very interesting, this impact of antifungals on longterm bacterial infections! Specifically known to be effective off-label for Bartonella.