tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36835768965612653032024-02-07T05:53:27.868-08:00Autism Spectrum Disorder: TreatmentsThere are a bazillion autism treatments and therapies out there today. At treatments4autism, we take a look at all of them. From the goofy, like dolphin therapy, to the interesting like Lego therapy, to the down right essential like ABA.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger447125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683576896561265303.post-11970941298340307182014-08-14T12:25:00.001-07:002014-08-14T12:25:18.245-07:00Gut Bacteria May Play a Role in Autism - Scientific American<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-may-play-a-role-in-autism/">Gut Bacteria May Play a Role in Autism - Scientific American</a>: "So could autism one day be treated with drugs designed to restore a healthy microbial balance? Perhaps, but autism is the result of a “complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors,” explains Manya Angley, an autism researcher at the University of South Australia, so the solution may not be that simple. "<br /><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28334749">BBC News - Autism parents being 'preyed on'</a><br />
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The National Autistic Society said therapies with no supporting evidence were being sold to parents.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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The warning comes after a BBC investigation found the use of dietary supplements and biomedical therapies being widely touted as a treatment.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></blockquote>
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There is no cure for autism and current best practice involves the use of behavioural and educational therapies.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Brown University researchers have traced a genetic deficiency implicated in autism in humans to specific molecular and cellular consequences that cause clear deficits in mice in how well neurons can grow the intricate branches that allow them to connect to brain circuits. The researchers also show in their study (online Sep. 12, 2013, in </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Neuron</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">) that they could <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912131958.htm" target="_blank">restore proper neuronal growth by compensating for the errant molecular mechanisms they identified</a>.</span><br />
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For most of her life, 6-year-old Charlotte Figi has suffered from 20 to 60 seizures a day due to an incurable genetic disorder called Dravet Syndrome. After the use of <a href="http://treatments4autism.blogspot.com/search/label/Medical%20Marijuana" target="_blank">medical marijuana</a>, Charlotte has shown dramatic improvement </blockquote>
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While the diet appeared to ameliorate the seizures at first, the strict food restrictions prompted bone loss, plunging Charlotte into a preliminary stage of osteoporosis. She also suffered from respiratory, ear and bladder infections. The drugs put stress on her organs and some of the medications caused her to stop breathing. </blockquote>
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Paige and Matt said they had reached a stage of desperation. When the suggestion came to try a less conventional approach to their daughter’s disease, both were willing to overlook the controversial implications of a 6-year-old using <a href="http://treatments4autism.blogspot.com/search/label/Medical%20Marijuana" target="_blank">medicinal marijuana</a>. </blockquote>
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Because little research on medicinal marijuana usage for children existed at the time, finding doctors to treat Charlotte presented a challenge. <a href="http://kdvr.com/2013/06/11/medicinal-marijuana-reduces-seizures-for-6-year-old-girl-improves-quality-of-life/" target="_blank">But Paige persisted. Eventually, she found two doctors, Dr. Margaret Gedde and Dr. Alan Shackelford, to sign for a medicinal marijuana license and treat Charlotte</a>.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In the article "<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256323.php" target="_blank">Use of Assistance and Therapy Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Critical Review of the Current Evidence</a>," <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256323.php" target="_blank">Alessandra Berry, PhD</a> and coauthors from Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, describe the body of published study results as encouraging. They emphasize the need for larger, better designed studies in the future to confirm and build on these findings. </span></blockquote>
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REPLACING missing gut bacteria in a mouse model of autism reverses adverse social behaviours and gut disorders associated with the condition. </blockquote>
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Last year, <a href="http://www.sarkis.caltech.edu/Welcome.html" style="border: 0px; color: #34a3d1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Sarkis Mazmanian</a> and <a href="http://biology.caltech.edu/Members/Patterson" style="border: 0px; color: #34a3d1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Paul Patterson</a> at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena found that infecting pregnant mice with molecules from a flu virus caused autism-like symptoms in their offspring. The pups were less social, squeaked less and displayed repetitive behaviours. They also had a "leaky" gastrointestinal tract that allowed bacteria to move in and out of the lining. In addition, the bacteria present in their gut were significantly different from that found in mice without autism-like behaviour. </blockquote>
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Studies in humans have also identified <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19011-gut-bacteria-may-contribute-to-autism.html" style="border: 0px; color: #34a3d1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">links between gut bacteria and autism</a>. For example, a 2011 study identified a significant lack of <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024585" style="border: 0px; color: #34a3d1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bacteroides</i></a> in children with autism. </blockquote>
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To investigate further, Mazmanian and Patterson fed mice with autism-like symptoms a common species of <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bacteroides</i>. The mice's gut cells subsequently appeared to have stronger connections to one another, and stopped expressing genes for signalling molecules that raise the immune response. The animals' behaviour changed as well: they stopped the repetitive behaviour and squeaked more when with the opposite sex. <a href="http://tedxcaltech.caltech.edu/content/elaine-hsiao" style="border: 0px; color: #34a3d1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">The work was</a>presented at a recent TEDx conference in Pasadena.</blockquote>
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Top doctors say they are on their way to successfully treating autism…using parasitic worms. A team at <a href="http://www.einstein.yu.edu/" target="_blank">Albert Einstein College of Medicine</a> is leading a trial to see if TSO, the eggs of a whipworm, can cure the symptoms of autism.<br />
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In the past 20 years, doctors have used parasitic worms to help patients with Crohn’s Disease, and hope the worms’ effect on the immune system will stop the inflammatory response they believe is linked to autism.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The present study reveals that a mutation of the disease-causing gene throws a key process of neurodevelopment into reverse. That is, the mutation underlying<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/254915.php" target="_blank"> Timothy syndrome causes shrinkage, rather than growth</a>, of the wiring needed for the development of neural circuits that underlie cognition. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"In addition to the <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/254915.php" target="_blank">implications for </a></span><span style="color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/254915.php" target="_blank">autism</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, what's really exciting is that we now have a way to get at the core mechanisms tying genes and environmental influences to development and disease processes in the brain," said Dolmetsch, Senior Director of Molecular Networks at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #263034; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">they still don’t know how plastic they are—if they can change fates after they started differentiating down one particular path. In the context of brain injury, it would be useful to know if certain neural circuits could be reprogrammed and repaired by having the neurons that are already present change fates to adapt to the damage. But this has been challenging to determine, because changing the fate of specific neurons in the latter stages of differentiation has been technically difficult.</span><br />
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April Hauge, a nurse practitioner in Weimar, California, spent $500 on a genetic test for her autistic son in 2009 that led to purchasing thousands of dollars in vitamins and supplements. Impressed with the results, she’s now selling advice on the approach to others.</div>
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There’s just one problem: the DNA tests and related treatments have scant backing from science and U.S. government officials. They’re untested, unproven, and may constitute “health fraud,” doctors, regulators and concerned parents said.</div>
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For alternative-medicine providers in general, the genetic tests are nothing but a “marketing tool” to sell unproven treatments, said James Laidler, a retired physician and adjunct professor at Portland State University whose 19-year-old autistic son has tried alternative therapies.</div>
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“You always hear the testimonials from the people who got better, not the people who stayed the same or got worse,” Laidler said. “They don’t want to hear somebody saying this is snake oil.”</div>
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Doctors and clinics across the U.S. are using the exploding science of DNA testing to feed anxieties and sell hope to people with autism and other hard-to-treat disorders.</div>
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Emboldened by meager state and federal regulation, purveyors of alternative medicine offer genetic tests costing hundreds of dollars to worried parents and patients, and then sell advice on supplements and diet based on results purporting to spot disease-causing deficiencies. They claim to be the panacea for everything from autism to chronic fatigue syndrome to the effects of aging.</div>
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That's especially true for people who have milder forms of the disorder, the new research indicates.<br />
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Scientists at Auckland University's Centre for Brain Research say they have gained new understandings of the causes of autism, opening up new avenues for possible treatment.</div>
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The ground-breaking research, done in collaboration with Stanford University in the United States, looked at brain cell communication and genetic mutations in people with autism.</div>
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The team discovered that autism was caused by mutated brain proteins, called Shank3, weakening communication between brain cells.</div>
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Head researcher Jo Montgomery said that the discovery was exciting because it meant treatments could be investigated.</div>
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"Brain cells are incredibly sociable cells in the brain and they talk to each other all the time," she said.</div>
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"There are about 10 trillion brain cells connected by about 10 billion synapses which gives you an idea of how much chatter is going on in your brain at one time, and all that chatter underlies how you see things, how you move, how you learn and how you remember things.</div>
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Thirty children with the disorder, aged 2 to 7, will receive injections of their own <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/stem-cells" style="color: #3e72a7;">stem cells</a>from umbilical cord blood banked by their parents after their births. </blockquote>
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Scientists at Sutter Neuroscience Institute, in Sacramento, Calif., said the placebo-controlled study will help determine whether the stem cell therapy helps improve language and behavior in the youngsters. </blockquote>
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There is anecdotal evidence that stem cell infusions may have a benefit in other conditions such as cerebral palsy, said lead study investigator Dr. Michael Chez, director of pediatric neurology at the institute. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 14px;">A global clinical trial involving South Florida children is studying a drug that — if proven safe and effective — would deliver a dose of hope to the <a href="http://specialedpost.com/autism/" style="color: #1c9b3d; text-decoration: none;" title="autism">autism</a> community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.connectmeprogram.com/" target="_blank">ConnectMe</a>, an international initiative with more than 85 study centers in the United States and 185 worldwide, is investigating the effects of <span style="color: #1c9b3d;"><a href="http://treatments4autism.blogspot.com/2011/02/autism-and-alzheimers-drug-namenda.html" target="_blank">memantine</a></span> on children with <a href="http://www.autism-society.org/about-autism/" style="color: #1c9b3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="autism">autism</a>, <a href="http://www.autism-society.org/about-autism/aspergers-syndrome/" style="color: #1c9b3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Asperger's">Asperger’s</a> and <a href="http://www.autism-society.org/about-autism/diagnosis/diagnostic-classifications.html" style="color: #1c9b3d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="atypical autism ">atypical autism</a>(also called pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, or PDD-NOS). The hope is it will help treat the communication and social limitations at the heart of these disorders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 14px;">Billed as the largest study of its kind, <a href="https://www.connectmeprogram.com/" target="_blank">ConnectMe</a> is now enrolling South Florida children, according to Forest Laboratories Inc., the New York City-based pharmaceutical company leading the study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 14px;">If it’s shown to convincingly and safely improve trial participants’ impairments in interacting and communicating with others, researchers would seek the FDA’s nod as the first drug approved for offsetting autism’s core effects, said Dr. Peter Ventre, co-owner and principal investigator for Research Centers of America in Oakland Park, which is leading the study in South Florida.</span></div>
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"Autism and the <a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/health/pharma/snips/" target="_blank">Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms</a> (<a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/health/pharma/snips/" target="_blank">SNP</a>) Mystery" sounds like a really bad episode of Scooby Doo. Learn about SNPs at <a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/health/pharma/snips/" target="_blank">The University of Utah</a>: <a href="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/health/pharma/snips/" target="_blank">Genetic Science Learning Center</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/251523.php">Important Breakthrough In Our Understanding Of Autism Risk</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The causes of </span><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/autism/" style="background-color: white; color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="What is Autism?">autism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are complex, and contain elements of both nature (genes) and the environment. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Molecular Autism shows that common genetic polymorphisms (genetic variation) can add up to an increased risk of ASD. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The contribution of inheritance and genetic mutation versus environmental factors to the risk of ASD is hotly debated. Most twin studies show the contribution heavily tilted toward inheritance, but the exact amount of involvement of genes in ASD risk is less apparent. This is because, while the impact of rare genetic variations on ASD risk is becoming clear, the role of more common variations, so called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), remains unresolved. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Researchers analyzed one million of the common gene variations in each participant's genome and determined that in families with only one affected child, heredity was the root cause of 40%, the other 60% are presumed environmental in nature. Families where more than one child has autism see these numbers flipped. The chance of heredity being the root issue increases to 60% in these cases.</span></span></span><br />
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<li>It is a blood product derived from 1000+ donors. </li>
<li>Reduction in autism related symptoms are temporary at best.</li>
<li>Other potential side effects (<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headache" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">headache</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; outline: none;"><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; outline: none;" target="_blank">dermatitis</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">infection (such as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">HIV</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> or </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_hepatitis" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">viral hepatitis</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">) by contaminated blood product, as of yet unknown risk of contracting </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_CJD" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">variant CJD</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">vCJD</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">), </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_edema" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">pulmonary edema</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> from fluid overload, due to the high </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncotic_pressure" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">colloid oncotic pressure</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> of IVIG, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">allergic</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">/</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphylaxis" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b0080; line-height: normal;">anaphylactic</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> reactions; for example, anaphylactic shock), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">hepatitis</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_kidney_injury" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">acute kidney injury</a><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venous_thrombosis" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">venous thrombosis</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseptic_meningitis" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">aseptic meningitis</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Multiple treatments to see benefit, if any.</span></li>
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That said, my daughter has autism with a side of intractable seizures, which are one of if not the leading cause of death for people with autism. While I am dubious about the benefit related to autism symptoms, there does look to be a lot of research showing benefits related to seizures.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.ice-epilepsy.org/role-of-inflammation-in-epilepsy-and-treatment-with-ivig.html" target="_blank">Role of Inflammation in Epilepsy and Treatment With IVIg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/inflammatory_immuno.html" target="_blank">CAN IMMUNOTHERAPY CONTROL SEIZURES?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20004620" target="_blank">Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in intractable childhood epilepsy: open-label study and review of the literature.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD008557/intravenous-immunoglobulins-for-epilepsy" target="_blank">Intravenous immunoglobulins for epilepsy</a></li>
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<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120912185447AAgkAoq">My daughters mother is poisoning her..PLEASE HELP? - Yahoo! Answers</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">My daughters mother has recently told about a "Miracle Cure", but did not tell me she had purchased it. Last night I did extensive research about this "cure" and found many many claims for how good it is..Its cured cancer, aids. malaria and all other types of things...Then I ran into a truth forum about this stuff...Its called Miracle Mineral Solution or MMS...It used to be called, until the FDA came with warnings against this product...Now it can only be sold as water purification solution not as a cure...its nasty stuff...its sodium chlorite, not to be confused with sodium chloride or table salt...its used to bleach paper and textiles, and as a water purification...anyway the point...I spoke to my daughters mother again tonight, and she told me my daughter wasnt feeling well,, coughing runny nose, fever...so she gave her this "cure" and now she is better but still has a fever......<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120912185447AAgkAoq" target="_blank">she is poisoning my daughter</a>...if she wants to do it to herself fine, but I draw a line at my daughter...who can I tell who will do something about this?? CPS? Dyfus? Please help...i am seriously upset by this and do not want my daughter there a minute longer...remember the FDA has said this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Miracle Mineral Solution, an oral liquid also known as “Miracle Mineral Supplement” or “MMS.” The product, when used as directed, produces an industrial bleach that can cause serious harm to health.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">For a small number of individuals with autism, a supplement may be an effective form of treatment. Researchers have discovered a type of autism with epilepsy that is associated with a gene mutation, and that it could respond to certain amino acids.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In the subset of individuals who have both autism and epilepsy, scientists from the University of California, San Diego, and Yale University have discovered that some have a gene mutation that accelerates the metabolism of branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), which leaves them with a deficiency of this element.</span></blockquote>
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