5 Of The Most Commonly Used Autism Treatments
Autism is a puzzling disorder. Almost too appropriately, the universal logo and symbol of Autism is a puzzle. When you find out that your child has Autism, you’re going to be flooded with information on treatment methods from doctors and specialists. There are a variety of available treatments, but when you’re still suffering from the shock of the diagnosis, it’s difficult to tell the difference of each treatment. Here are a few of the most commonly used treatment options.
1. Behavioral Modification
Often in cases of Autism, children have difficulties with maintaining acceptable behavior. Hitting, self injury, temper tantrums, and other like behaviors are common and damaging to the child and their families. Behavior modification treatment focuses on refining the behavior by initiating a reward system for acceptable behavior. Children are rewarded with hugs, high fives, toys, or something that they enjoy so that they associate good behavior with positive reinforcement.
2. Dietary Modification
It has been found that diets that are high in gluten or casein can be damaging to the autistic body. Eliminating these wheat and dairy items can be easier said than done because they’re often such a large part of a child’s diet. With substitution and new skills, parents can learn how to remove these foods from their child’s diet and allow their inflamed guts to heal.
3. Communication Treatment
Social interaction is another area in which children have a hard time performing in when they are diagnosed with ASD. Very often, Autistic children are unable to speak or communicate effectively and this makes it difficult to understand what it is that your child needs or wants. Communication treatment or Speech therapy explores other methods of communication such as non-verbal communication that can enable ASD children to communicate on a level that can be understood.
4. Chelation
Chelation is the process utilized to remove damaging heavy metals from the body. Mercury, iron, and other metals are often found in the Autistic body and can have negative effects on the brain making Autism symptoms even worse. Another source of damaging metals is Thiomersal, which is found in many childhood vaccines. Chelation Therapy includes the administering of chelating agents to remove heavy metals.
5. Treatment with Medication
When it comes to treating Autism with medication, since the ultimate cause isn’t known, you aren’t really treating the Autism so much as the symptoms. With Autism often comes depression, anxiety, and behavioral challenges in which doctors are quick to hand over a prescription for an anti-depressant. While this can give symptoms a pacifier and can make living with Autism somewhat easier, there’s no one medication to treat autism.
An ideal treatment plan will focus on your individual child’s needs and interests. For example, if you have a child is is very interested in toys and enjoys playing with them, toy therapy may be a beneficial treatment for them. It’s perfectly okay to explore different methods of treatment to find which one works best. While there is no cure for Autism, there are a decent number of treatment options that can be very beneficial to treating the symptoms and body damage that Autism brings with it.
Tags: autism, Autism Communication, autism treatments, Chelation
July 5th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Could you please inform me about anti viral ( Valtrex) plus Azol anti fungal ( like Nizoral or Diflucan)
in treatment of Autism i read a lot about them and what’s your recommendations for that . i read also history of success from parents comments which recommend this way of treatment.
Thanks for all support
July 6th, 2010 at 2:24 am
We really do need to find a CURE for this devastating disorder.
If a cure cannot be found, at the very least a screening process is mandated to prevent more autistic children being born.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for austism. In fact, there is nothing remotely resembling a cure in sight. With all our “advancement/treatments” (hbot, chelation, ABA, Biofilm, bla, bla, bla), autism remains an incurable disorder. The aforementioned treatments, regretably do not even account for 5% of autistic children improving to the degree that they can one day live independent lives. It’s a sad state of affairs.
A breakthrough is mandated. Until a cure is found, millions of children around the world (along with my own) and their parents will continue to suffer. The amount of suffering? Well, suffice it to say that only a parent of an autistic child knows the degree of suffering involved. How much can one endure? What is life worth without any quality or hope?
My own personal opinion is that a cure for autism will never be found.
John
July 6th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Hi
We have a boy who is now 5+ and is autistic. A real difference we found is with Ayurveda treatement (ancient indian medicines). We took him for an ayurveda therapy session for 17 days as in patient in a big hospital in the state of Kerala in India. We are finding minor changes and as per the hospital we have continue doing such sessions at interval of 3 months at least for about 5-6 times to get real benefit
Thougt of sharing this with you for the benefit of others
regards
Madhu
July 6th, 2010 at 6:21 am
what about PCA-RX? I have heard that is a very good option. What aanalysese should I do to my child before using PXA-Rx? Please write to me
July 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Hi Figo, PCA-RX is a good safe protocol. You should still do the BEFORE test like heavy metals testing using hair and then a AFTER test 8 months of usage. Do you need help?
July 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Thanks Madhu for sharing and we also believed in Ayurvedic medicine as we share a common roots with Chinese medicine.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Madhu,
Would you please mention the hospital? and Place? Is it Kottakkal? I’m from Kerala too my child is autistic and he is now 4 and 1/2 yrs.
July 7th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Admin,
What are the options available in Chinese medicine? Can you specify? I heard of stem cell therapy What is it?
July 8th, 2010 at 9:36 am
what is pca-rx
July 8th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Hi Stephen, You could goggle it but here is what PCA-RX is “PCA-Rx is a living bacterial organism in a bottle: a powerful yet safe alternative to traditional chelation therapy that utilizes the unique concept of clathration to cleanse the body of this unwanted and often-dangerous toxicity. While chelation is usually achieved with drugs and chemicals, PCA-Rx is a living formula actually made up of helpful bacteria and other microbes that, when used, become a natural, living part of the body’s immune system. PCA-Rx is the most effective nutritional support product available for physiological toxin removal and cleansing.” My 2-cent word is this product uses some specific microbes to do the chelation therapy and we at DAN knows for the longest time that certain probiotics can chelate metals, and this is why we prescribed them all the time.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Hi Johnson, I was trying to compare the Ayurvedic medicine with Chinese medicine: Shen (spirit), TuiNa (massage therapy), Herbs, Manipulation, all these treatments had its place for treating autism. Checkout my earlier blogs on Stem Cell Therapy.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Hi John, I too agreed with you that we should try to find a “cure” for autism asap but meanwhile, we should try to do much naturally to give these kids a chance in life. However, I disagreed with you about that there would never be a cure for autism. Maybe, it is not the correct word to use as politically correct the terminology should be “recovered”, that is, most of these so-called cured kids has been recovered back to mainstream society via DANs for the longest time.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Hi Hatem, the antiviral and antifungal would work best if the kid is tested positive for immunological deficit and/or presence of yeast in the body/GI. A lots of time autism is caused by just this way once upon a time.
July 20th, 2010 at 12:06 am
This request is addressed to Madhu. I wd like take my Grandson for Ayurvedic Treatment.
Can you furnish details of thisparticular Hospital? Is it Kottakkal?
As we are planning a trip to Guruvayuoor by the end of this month, your prompt
response is solocited.
With regards.
D.S. Jayaraman