Misleading, Baseless, False Hope
Article: Why Some Children May ‘Grow Out’ of Autism:
http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20120123/why-some-children-may-grow-out-of-autism
My comment:
It is very sad what a surface look this is without consideration, as they admit in the last sentence, of what the parents did, like change in diet, constant, untiring, endless support, on the spot guidance, therapies, healers, parents who don’t give up, who love that child no matter what and do what they have to no matter what to get this child better. And then they write a study really giving the bulk of the credit of treatement to the meds. From my research and and experience meds have never done anything more for autism than stop some symptoms at a very great price to the person taking them. The have never provided a cure or anything connected with a cure. They are paliative. To write a study like this which may give some uneducated, yet very loving parents, such false hope, is distressing to say the least.
An autism problem mimics a hearing problem only to the outsider. The person closes down because the stimuli are too much and so it looks like they don’t hear. That this study calls “mimic” shows they don’t understand it at all. To write that they may “also” have a speech problem or anxiety is like saying a dieabetic might “also” have a problem with sugar. Those are symptoms of autism not comorbidities.
and these “experts” writing this analysis “were not involved in the research.”
Children can get better. They do get better. But not because of what is in this article.
Bacteria in the gut of autistic children different from non-autistic children
The underlying reason autism is often associated with gastrointestinal problems is an unknown, but new results to be published in the online journal mBio on January 10 reveal that the guts of autistic children differ from other children in at least one important way: many children with autism harbor a type of bacteria in their guts that non-autistic children do not. The study was conducted by Brent Williams and colleagues at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
My comment:
It follows that one of the first things to do when realizing that a child might be on the spectrum is to change the diet. The one to start with is GF/CF (gluten free/ casein free ). The next diet to try is Specific Carbohydrate Diet which can be found in several books under “My Favorite Purchases.” And when that does not give a desired result, the next diet is the Elimination Diet.
I will explain these in later posts.
What we put into our body has huge effects. The gut is considered “the Second Brain.” What we put into our child’s gut directly affects his/her brain.
