quotes from autism speaks dr

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Other alternative treatments parents reported trying for their kids ran the

gamut from hyperbaric oxygen, which involves pressurized chambers with

oxygen-rich air that usually are used to treat divers with the bends, to

chelation therapy, a treatment that removes heavy metals from the body. That

treatment stemmed from fears that mercury causes autism, Coury said.

Despite significant publicity about the methods, less than 1 percent of parents

had tried them, the study found. And that's a good thing, Coury said, because

there's no evidence that either works and some evidence that they might be

dangerous.