Autism: Who is Fooling Who?

The seven hundred families of Treating Autism have many goals, with the primary one being to improve quality of life for their children with autism, in large part by addressing their health problems. However, we also want to ensure that other parents and professionals have access to good information. Much of what people believe now is based on half-truths and misinformation and the outcome of this is that many children aren't getting the help they need and deserve. Even more sadly, the lack of accurate information is not restricted to just autism, but any number of skyrocketing diagnoses: asthma, allergies, depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, and virtually any acronym you can think of including ADHD, OCD, ODD, PDA, and LD. The number of children negatively affected is absolutely staggering.

Please take a few minutes to consider what passes for truth, and the evidence we present that shows a much different reality: view full Autism: Who is Fooling Who? document. 

  Who is Fooling Who?

CDC confirms children with Autism have many unmet medical needs

Recent study conducted by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that children with autism face an increased risk for many common health conditions. This detailed assessment demonstrates that children with autism had much higher than expected rates of all of the medical conditions studied:

• frequent gastrointestinal problems
• asthma
• eczema or a skin allergy
• food allergies
• ear and respiratory infections
• severe headaches or migraines
• seizures

This much-needed research provides evidence that children with Autism and other developmental disabilities require increased health services and specialist services, both for their core functional deficits and for health problems beyond their core developmental disabilities.

Read full study here.
Read informative article by one of the authors here

Gut flora and gastrointestinal status in children with autism correlates with autism severity

A study by Arizona State University found strong correlation of gastrointestinal symptoms with autism severity. Their results indicate that children with more severe autism are likely to have more severe gastrointestinal symptoms and vice versa. The results of this research confirm once more the widespread abnormalities of gastrointestinal function in autism and the likelihood of GI problems in autism being a contributing factor to the severity of the disorder.   access full paper