BIOMEDICAL APPROACH TO MANAGING AUTISM
Background
How can you treat a Genetic Disorder?
In the same way you can overcome genetic eye power defect with specs, and high blood sugar in diabetes with antidiabetic drugs, and blood high cholesterol with lipid lowering drugs.
Leave the genes alone. We will fight them another day.
Today, we assess the child clinically, see what abnormal manifestations are present, use our experience and knowledge to figure out why they are happening or what physiology went wrong, and then TREAT THAT CONDITIONS WITH AVAILABLE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE DRUGS, FOOD, LIFE-STYLE, PHYSICAL / COGNITIVE THERAPIES, ETC.
Who is guiding us?
The USA based Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (www.MedMaps.org) was set up recently by a batch of pioneering frontline research oriented biomedical practitioner Physicians, to organise therapies, standardise treatment protocols, and train a interested physicians who would herald an era of scientific evidence based management of the pathologies that go wrong in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
This group is lead by Dr. Dan Rossignol, Dr. Frye, Dr. Usman, Dr. Bradstreet, etc.
From India, very few doctors have completed the Module 1 Training to become Members of MAPS, while 1 has completed the Module 2 Training in preparation for the Fellowship (only 1 so far) has completed all modules, evaluation examibations and Mentorship to become a Fellow and also the first Asian Faculty Member of MAPS.
What are the major concerns that Biomedical Therapy addresses
- Balanced Diet, avoiding foods that can potentially cause harm, while at the same ensuring that age and sex appropriate well tolerated calories, protein, fats and carbohydrates are given, choosing carefully from among those food items that would ensure the nutritive factors the individual child should get, within the calory range permitted.
- Test based appropriate doses of vitamins and minerals, including specialized nutrients if and when needed, like MB12 injection, NMDA receptor regulators, Tetrahydro Biopterin, Neopterin, TMG/DMG, Glutathione, etc.
- Management of Mitochondrial Dysfunction (We are not referring to Mitochondrial Disease, which co-incidentaly is also present in a fair number of children with ASD), that may cause listlessness, motor disabilities, floppy body with low muscle tone, drooling of saliva, etc.
- Very selective need-based test-established use of medications like NMDA receptor regulators, 5HTP, Resperidone, Ariprazole, Atomoxetin, Methyl-phenidate, Folinic Acid, Anti-epileptics, bowel regulators, free radical scavengers, melatonin, etc.
- Infection control, mainly at the Gut passages, to control Gut Dysbiosys, which generally involves 2 specific bacteria in such cases
- Certain specific infections of Gut, that may cause inflammation and toxin-release in intestines, causing propensity injure self and / or others, etc.
- Certain specific non-bacterial infections of gut that often causes the child to behave in a foolish way with inappropriate behavior, laughing, bowel irregularities with foul smell
- Certain specific systemic bacterial infection that can cause an auto-immune neuro-developmental abnormalities in pediatric age group due to the endotoxins released
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