Parents Of Patient Say Results Of Controversial Treatment Are Undeniable; Other Doctors Remain Skeptical
NEW YORK (CBS) ― For families struggling with autism finding the latest treatments is a top priority. Now a controversial approach is making headlines.Unfortunately, there is still no cure for autism, but therapies involving communication techniques, education and medications are the mainstays of treatment.
Now, an alternative approach involving a hyperbaric oxygen chamber is getting attention and giving some patients hope.
A year ago, Tommy Ellison, now 3 years old, couldn't interact at all. That ability was lost to autism.
"It tore our lives apart. It tore it upside down," father Tom Ellison said.
The family turned to New Jersey Dr. James Neubrander and his alternative treatments. They include a variety of supplements and vitamins, a gluten free diet and pressurized oxygen therapy in a hyperbaric chamber.
It's become part of Tommy's therapy. With his mom, and plenty of toys, he climbs into the chamber and is zipped in for the blast of oxygen.
According to his father, the results were immediate and stunning.
"He became a totally different boy," Tom Ellison said.
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"Unfortunately, there's no scientifically valid evidence that this approach works," said Dr. Joseph Buxbaum of Seaver & N.Y. Autism Center of Excellence at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Added Dr. Paul Offit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: "Historically in medicine when you have disorders or diseases that don't have clear causes or clear cures quackery and Charlatanism abounds and I think that's what's happening here."
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