Environmental and Genetic

[Anonymous]

Am I understanding it right? So once the child has asperger's (for example) - there is no "undoing it" or "making it worse" - right? What's done is done, we can only control what is done, right? I ask because people make a big deal out of using chemicals after the fact.

[Anonymous]

There is a way to undo it...it involves a lot of detoxing and removing the chemicals from the body. And yes, it can be made worse by adding more chemicals and by a bad diet. But, you're going to do what you're compelled to do, regardless of what others think.

My my children, detoxing has been KEY. My kids are healing amazingly well from their initial damage. There have been many kids healed from autism/add/adhd. Just google "autism recovery stories" and you'll get video proof of before and after videos.

Most people on this board will dispute this and say that nothing on the internet is trustworthy. Well, I've seen it with my own eyes...and seeing is believing. I have 2 friends who have cured their children of autism. It can be done...don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[Anonymous]

I think that you are oversimplifying the question. Some kids have bad reactions to food additives and food dyes, others do not. Some kids react to some foods like casein and gluten, others do not. I do know someone who had a preliminary autism diagnosis until they discovered she had celiacs disease and eliminated gluten. She wasn't "cured" but rather misdiagnosed. I don't say this to discredit the PP--I believe the story and am very happy for your kids. I am just saying that "detoxing" may work in a very particular situation just like the elimination of gluten may work in another. The autism diagnosis is based on behaviors and developmental traits not a blood test so if a child loses those behaviors and delays, one could say she/he has been "cured." But I suspect that in a few years we'll understand more about genetic factors and environmental triggers and that diagnoses will be different then.

[Anonymous]

I have yet to see someone be able to cure their profound autistic child from autism. So far the only "cured" cases I have heard about were kids who were high-functioning.

I agree with PP that there may be more misdiagnosed cases of autism than we think.

[Anonymous]

Kids get better even without therapies or treatment. The higher the IQ at the time of DX, the better the outcome. Even when kids lose the DX of ASD, they have on-going deficits that have to be worked with or around.

More on that here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/making-sense-autistic-spectrum-disorders/201008/017-losing-the-asd-diagnosis-does-not-equal-cur
ids and not others, or they may be attributing natural improvement to their interventions. I think the second is more likely, personally.

What does work? ABA, speech therapy, occupational therapy are the standard therapies and they are effective.

There are some alternative treatments that show promise. SA did a study that ranked alternative treatments: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=alternative-biomedical-treatments

They also did an article on dubious treatments. It's available here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=desperate-for-an-autism-cure

[Anonymous]

It isn't about toxins and detoxing is dangerous. My DS has Aspergers and years of intensive therapies have made a huge difference in his life.

OP, do you have a child with an ASD? I ask because it is actually upsetting to some of us when the whole vaccine/toxins debate gets kicked up gratuitously.

[Anonymous]

Intervention changes the brain according to what I have read. ST, OT, etc all can have an impact and help re-wire to a degree. I am a big fan of detox, but in our case that does not mean chelation, it means acoiding certain chemicals, removing carpeting as much as possible, eating minimally processed good and organic as much as possible (and we can afford).

I disagree that what's done is done. In fact trying to avoid chemicals and certain pesticides is good for anyone. If you have a family history of cancer it's a good idea. If you have ADD...and so forth. In fact, I know of a few cases where cancer patients were told by mainstream doctors to avoid such things including hormones in foods, etc.

[Anonymous]

Ethan's recovery from autism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEw0Y5LJ6vg

[Anonymous]

Grant's recovery from autism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Txnuw40BGo&feature=related

[Anonymous]

Madison's recovery from autism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnoZ3x1DkQ&feature=related

[Anonymous]

Tristan's recovery from autism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aICZqTd5_Zc

[Anonymous]

I think none of these kids in those videos had autism to begin with.

[Anonymous]

http://www.drneubrander.com/videos.php

entire section of videos on the bottom left: all diagnosed with autism and recovered by a DAN! dr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think none of these kids in those videos had autism to begin with.

well, geeze, what did they have then? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....

[Anonymous]

again, where are the videos of profoundly autistic kids NOT showing symptoms after vaccinations or other biomedical offenses? All of these videos show kids with normal IQs.