Oh how scary, I know a lot of kids with autism have fits as well and often times it isn't until the MRI that they pick up Autism. Its quite scary. When my DD's had their testing for allergies, they had to take 4 vials of blood, around 8mls! I had to lay on top of DD1 and have 3 other people holding her limbs straight as they took the blood.

My DD1 had extremely high levels of mercury (apparently common in Autistic kids), iron defecient and had thyroid issues due to her body not digesting food properly, we also found out she was intolerant to a lot of foods and allergic to milk ... when we took her off all the bad foods she started digesting food and her body got heaps better as well as some of her developmental delays.

The paed said we will probably have to do an MRI at some point, but he is waiting to see if she does anything else to warrant it....