UK’s NHS Report Suggests Autism Increase Due to Oversight?
September 25, 2009
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NHS Autism Report suggests the increase in autism in recent years was all down to an oversight …
Polly Tommey is the mother of a thirteen year old son with autism. She is also the Editor of www.autismfile.com. In both roles, as a mother speaking with other parents day in, day out, and as a journalist dealing with constantly increasing numbers of calls describing personal crises for the last ten years, she has had direct experience of the increasing pressure being caused by the numbers of people dealing with autism.
Polly, like many others, has also attended conferences, seminars and work shops worldwide for the last decade and has heard endless research reports and debates on what is the cause of the increase in the prevalence of autism in countries across the world. Statistics citing 5 in 10,000 with autism in 1990 increasing to 1 in 100 today have been used by many from all backgrounds. However it ‘appears’ that it was all now a mistake and that there has been no increase at all … the apparent 95% step up was simply down to an oversight, a lack of awareness and non-diagnosis.Autism isn’t a new problem at all, we’ve had the same level all along – and perhaps, if the data is critiqued, it is actually in decline!
Scepticism surrounds the interpretation of this new report … “Why on earth did this ‘ground-breaking’ news get forced up the news bulletins in the way that it did on Monday evening here in the UK?”, asks Polly, “Are we really able to believe all that we hear on such important subjects, or is there a stronger hand with adifferent agenda behind it?”
A review of the detail behind the headlines will enable any objective reader to draw their own conclusions … continue reading here.
Autism Allergy: Do Allergies Cause Autism in Children Part 2
July 22, 2009
These tests cost some amount of money. If you don’t want additional expenses, you can still have another method by simply knowing the food that you should avoid. You can try eliminating foods that can trigger high-risk allergies. You should observe if through these methods, the child experiences improvements. You can bring back some food into the diet after a while to check if they could be safer to eat by then. Follow the rotation diet and observe for four days. When there is no reaction, you can once again eat that kind of food.
This form of treatment must be enforced permanently if the child manifests continuous irritation and allergy. There are also other instances when allergies disappear as the inflammation heals, and the digestive and immune system becomes normal once again.
Additionally, different studies that have also been conducted in the past support the fact that children with autism normally have food allergies. In relation to this, a study of Kushak and Buie shows that a person with autism does not fully digest the food he eats because of underactive digestive enzymes for complex sugars. As a result, the person finds it hard to digest foods that contain starch and also sugar.
More studies proved that this kind of treatment works. Lucarelli et. al. conducted a study on 36 children with autism, and they found out that within 8 weeks that the children avoided eating allergic foods, there was an improved change in their behavior.
Gut inflammation is found to be common in children with autism, and this is one of the seen causes why most of these children suffer from food allergies. With their guts inflamed, food eaten is not fully digested. It passes through the blood of the individual and triggers the allergic reaction.
If you will enforce this treatment method to a child with autism, there are more chances for improvement in the behavior of the child. Also, it would be easier to catch his attention and retain it.
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Autism Genetic Research Indicates Which Parent’s Children are at Risk for Developing the Disorder
July 1, 2009
Autism genetic research has shown that it is one of the most heritable disorders. Despite an increasing amount of autism genetic studies being performed each year the researchers are still trying to discover the multiple genes believed to be the reason for autism.
There have been numerous studies, completed and ongoing, on twins and siblings. Identical twins, who share one hundred percent of their nuclear DNA, where one has autism, have about a sixty percent chance of the second child having autism and a ninety percent chance of the identical twin having some type of autistic spectrum disorder. With fraternal twins, where the genes shared number only fifty percent, the chance of the second twin being autistic lowers dramatically to four and half percent, just like it would with any sibling. For the average person the chance of having autism is .2%. These numbers speak strongly in favor of evidence that links autism with heritability.
Autism genetic studies of twins have been going on since the middle 1970s. Of nine studies conducted worldwide between 1977 and 2004 all of them came to relatively the same conclusion regarding identical twins and the chances of a second twin having autism. One study felt that the delivery highly influenced the chance of an autistic child, but overall the conclusions were very similar.
Many family studies have been conducted as well. A Danish study in 2005 looked at risk aspects of the entire family. If the autistic child had Asperger’s syndrome the risk for other children to have some type of autism was believed to be 1.04% while if the child had other forms of autism the feeling was a risk factor of 1.76%. These risk factors were double if the mother had ever been diagnosed with any form of psychiatric disorder. These conclusions were formed after a thorough study of the entire family including collecting information on the parent’s place of birth, their age, the location the child/children were born, and the family history for depression or psychiatric difficulties. Although paternal age seemed to be an issue, maternal age was not.
These studies have left almost as many questions unanswered as they have answered. If identical twins show such an increase in heritability why don’t fraternal twins? Why are parents of autistic children almost always people who do not have autism if heritability is so definitely a factor in this disorder? Some researchers question if autism has become the word of its time and perhaps too many children are being lumped into this group for ease of diagnosis. All these unanswered questions will only be answered once more studies into the heritability of autism are conducted and results are known.
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Causes of Autism
September 29, 2008
Autism is a very complex neurodevelopmental disorder and due to this face there are many proposed theories on the causes of autism. Even though these theories can explain some cases, it’s hard come up with an exact case for this disorder. What makes autism a very special case is that there are more theories that come from a controversial angle, such as vaccinations, even though there isn’t any convincing scientific evidence to back this up.
Genetics
Genetics is considered one of the most likely reasons autism occurs. It is estimated that 90% of autism is a result of genetics. As you know, genetics is a very complex science that is relatively new in our age of science. It isn’t believed that the particular genes that cause this disorder are inherited, but that they actually are a mutation.
Even though this is believed to be the best theory on the causes of autism, the actual explanation for why these mutations happen is unknown. Some scientists have theorized that it comes from environmental effects and others believe it is a chemical imbalance that causes some parts of the brain to overgrow.
Pesticides
This happens to be one of the prenatal environment theories. A study by the California Department of Public Health reviewed pregnant women that lived near fields that had pesticide being sprayed. The type of pesticide was organochlorine pesticides dicofol and endosulfan. The study concluded that these women were several times more likely to have an autistic child born.
There has been a lot of skepticism of this study, mainly for the reason that there just weren’t enough women involved in it. Some of the pesticides were later tested on lab rats and showed that prenatal exposure to these may contribute to an autistic child being born.
Stress
Stress is believed by some to be one of the leading causes of autism and with all the other research on the effects of stress; it seems highly probable that this could be the case. Studies both in humans and animals have shown that stress during pregnancy can actually lead to disruption in brain development.
Ultrasound
This is one of the causes that fit into the more controversial category. There was a science related study on ultrasound waves can actually disrupt statistically small amount of neurons in neuronal migration. It is believed to be highly unlikely that this would be a cause of autism.
Toxicity From Mercury
Another suggested cause, that is gaining a lot of attention, is the amount of mercury we ingest into our bodies. The FDA actually released a report warning children and the elderly to limit the amount of intake on marine foods like tuna. There are other ways of getting too much mercury, such as living to close to a coal plant.
Studies have shown that the rates of autism actually were much higher for those people that live around mercury sources such as coal.
These are the main causes of autism and I think they deserve some attention to parents or soon to be parents. When we get right down to the facts, the medical community isn’t quite sure what causes this disorder. I think it is apparent for your health and the health of your child to consider all these characteristics.
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