Guest guest Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 > > HI , I AM INQUIRING ABOUT A LETTER WHO WAS POSTED BY A FATHER WHO CURED HIS > 16 YR. OLD SON BY AN UNTRADITIONAL TREATMENT.. I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT > AND I THOUGHT I HAD SAVED IT ______________________________________________________________ Hi Corinne, I think this might be the letter you mean.... > My name is and I am the father of a 16 year old son with autism. After researching autism and living through my son's extremely difficult behaviors for 14 years, I came up with a hypothesis about the cause of agitation, self-abusive behavior, and other symptoms of this disorder. I researched the topic in the medical literature and found support for the hypothesis. Based on my hypothesis, I also found what I believed to be a new potential treatment that is currently being used for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, two autoimmune disorders. I wrote a research paper and presented it to my son's doctor, who agreed that this was well researched, plausible, and should be pursued. I got the agent and we began treatment of my son. After 10 weeks, all my son's symptoms of agitation, self abusive behavior (smashing his head with his fist and biting his hand), anxiety, obsessive thoughts and behaviors, impulsivity, compulsivity, behavioral rigidity, repeated questioning and stimming completely disappeared. He went from smashing himself in the head 20 times a day and having to be physically restrained to not doing it at all. All the OCD vanished. No more inflexibility and extreme desire for sameness. No more anxiety. No tantrums or melt-downs. He continues to take the agent every two weeks and the symptoms have not returned for 15 months so far. Given the fact that my son had 13 years of intensive therapies (including pharmacology) in an effort to eliminate these behaviors (to no avail), the results left me and his doctor speechless. He asked me to present this to the entire research team at his hospital (which I did back in November 2006) and I will also be presenting it at the annual Autism Research conference at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York coming up on October 28th. We have filed for an NIH grant to conduct a double blind, placebo controlled study of this agent in autism. In the meantime, I feel guilty not telling my story. Maybe it's a fluke, maybe he just happened to lose all these behaviors coincidentally after ten weeks on this therapy. Or maybe not. I created a website to tell the story and hopefully stimulate interest so that this can be studied in a controlled fashion. The entire story can be found at www.autismtso.com < http://www.autismtso.com /> . I am not selling anything, I have no affiliation with the company that makes the treatment agent, and I receive no compensation of any kind with regard to this from anyone. All the costs associated with the development and maintenance of the website are from my own pocket. I'm not suggesting anyone try this. I just think the story is too remarkable not to tell, and by telling it to as wide an audience as possible, the result may be that controlled studies happen sooner rather than later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Anyone know where I can order a box of chiggers? I'm just kidding. I have been reading about studies with parasites and autoimmune diseases but this is the first time I've seen it with autism. It seems like most of these studies are done in countries other than the US. Apparently the parasites are able to "cool off" the overactive t cell reaction somehow and this stops the body from attacking itself. I wonder if other parasites would work. Steak Tartare anyone? Rita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 I’m starting to wonder if our bout with Cryptosporidium might have been a good thing in the long run. Didn’t see huge changes in my ASD little guy but in my older daughter with weight issues, allergy cell patches, food intolerances and memory recall the crypto seems to have made a difference. She has had such a better time at homework since crypto. Wouldn’t recommend it as a course of action though since my son looked like he would die from it at one point. Just interesting….- From: EOHarm [mailto:EOHarm ] On Behalf Of Rita Branson Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:48 PM EOHarm Subject: Re: ABOUT RECOVERY LATER Anyone know where I can order a box of chiggers? I'm just kidding. I have been reading about studies with parasites and autoimmune diseases but this is the first time I've seen it with autism. It seems like most of these studies are done in countries other than the US. Apparently the parasites are able to " cool off " the overactive t cell reaction somehow and this stops the body from attacking itself. I wonder if other parasites would work. Steak Tartare anyone? Rita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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