Gut/ autoimmunity/Research

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A.J. Russo, Ph.D.

Research Director

11/10/09. Scientists at the Health Research Institute/Pfeiffer

Treatment Center, in collaboration with scientists at the Thoughtful

House Center for Children in Austin, Texas have recently discovered

that autistic children with severe gastrointestinal (GI) disease have

low but significant levels of different auto antibodies. These

antibodies are also found in people with gastrointestinal disorders

like Crohn's Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). It has long

been suspected that autistic children, particularly those with GI

disease, are more susceptible to having autoimmune disease, but this is

the first report of a relationship between the type and number of these

auto antibodies and the severity of the GI disease found in autistic

children. The significance of these results includes a possible

opportunity to use the identification of these antibodies as a way of

categorizing the severity of GI disease and the type of therapy that

will be effective at treating the gut. Please click here to view the

study

http://www.hriptc.org/pdfs/Generalized-Autoimmunity-Paper.pdf