Autism-World

??Written and Maintained by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D.We know that poor bowel ecology – common in autistic children – often promotes the overgrowth of fungi and other microbes. These microbes can be involved in autism, as fungal metabolites are often found in the urine of autistic children.
Many children with autism respond to anti-fungal treatment, and [...]

Written and Maintained by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D.
Live Cell Therapy:
Live cell therapy was developed in Switzerland by Dr. Niehans. Over 2400 years ago, Hippocrates had theorized that, for example, if you had liver problems, the answer would be found in the healthy liver of a young animal because the livers of both man and animals [...]

Written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D.
Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 (FGF2) has been used by some parents, with both positive reports and reports that it makes children hyperactive and regressed. Some say it will not work unless seizure activity is under control. Many parents and professionals believe that seizures among autistic children are caused by the [...]

Written and Maintained by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D.
The most common route for secretin is as an intravenous bolus. The other two routes that are being considered are oral or transdermal. Dr. Jeff Bradstreet has written a good review of treatment options: Summary of Autism/PDD Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Options.
There are positive anecdotal stories for either [...]

Recently, some doctors and parents have recommended chelation therapy as a potential treatment for autism. However,there’s no scientific evidence currently.
Proponents believe that autism is caused by mercury exposure, such as from childhood vaccines. Chelation therapy supposedly removes mercury from the body, which cures autism.But extensive studies have revealed no evidence of a link between mercury [...]

Autism is a complex brain disorder that has no known cure. And there is no certain diet is proved to be an effective treatment for autism.
But many parents??attempt to help their children with diet treatments.??The most popular of these??alternative treatments are diets that eliminate gluten or casein, or both.Proponents of restrictive diets believe that casein, [...]

Autism treatments do not offer any magical solutions, and in fact may be a process of therapy that will continue for the person’s entire life. While some medications may be used to treat some of the symptoms of autism, all they do is address those symptoms, not the autism itself. Autism is something that is [...]