SCD 2 month regression

We had a big scare these last 2 weeks when Mickey regressed. It started with him acting out of it. He was just in a daze, not making great eye contact. He started talking in more jibberish than words and wasn’t interacting much with us or his sister. He had weird high fevers on and off for a week. I thought he was just ill. Than his ears turned really hot and bright red and he broke out in a heat rash on his ears and legs. The ear rash happened twice at different times over 2 weeks. He lost his appetite. He had HUGE tantrums and was fussy often. It seemed like he fully regressed again. We had not introduced any new foods, nothing had changed in his routine. This was just out of left field. Than I remembered a book called Autism: Effective Biomedical Treatments from the Autism Research Institute that talked about regressions at certain points in the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. We were rigt at the 2 month mark in the diet. Sure enough the first regression was at exactly 2 – 3 months! Mickey met 95% of the symptoms listed. It said the regression could last up to 14 days. Sure enough it was about 12 days for us. However, after the regression he blossomed! He is talking more than ever before. He is acting more like a typical little boy too. He is silly. He is pretending more. He is saying cute and clever things. We went to Sea World and when we got to the flamingos he saw people feeding them. The food was from a machine and we didn’t have any change on us. He said, “Mommy, I want to feed the flamingos.” I said, I am sorry, honey. We don’t have any money for the flamingo food. What else can we feed them?” He thought for a moment and matter of factly said, “Grapes!” (We can’t eat grapes yet on the diet so it wasn’t like he is used to eating grapes. He just decided that is what flamingos eat!) He has been doing great on his vocabulary. He knows very advanced names of things. He has a book of animals and can name them all from hyena to egret (mommy and daddy didn’t even know that one!) We were suprised when he saw Shamu and called him an orca! Some things he has a hard time pronouncing but he tries like hippopotamus is “hippopossum” and rhinocerus is “rhinosos.” His speech teacher is taking advantage of his interest in letters and is teaching him sight words. Since Mickey has an incredible memory he can see a word and memorize it. So basically the way he memorizes pictures in books or flash cards, he is memorizing written words. This will help him in future reading skills. I noticed after this regression he has self-corrected some of his previous words. Before he would say fire car but now says fire truck. He would say squad car (although technically correct, not as common in his age range) whereas he now says police car. The regression was hard. Probably the hardest 2 weeks to date, but the results have been worth it. There are supposed to be more regressions at 5 months, 7 months and 9 months. Good to know a time frame if we go through this again.