Autism and inflammatory bowel disease

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Interesting article, albeit it doesn't explain some of the logic behind the

treatments.

http://www.sundayherald.com/40427

However, the Sunday Herald has discovered that children who underwent treatment

in the US centre have had a marked reduction in the severity of their autism.

Ken Ross, a lawyer from Edinburgh, was told his son would never talk and

would have a poor quality of life. His bowel problems were dismissed as

“nothing, other than diarrhoea”.

After being refused treatment at centres across the UK, the family had to pay to

fly to the US and have their son treated by Jeff Bradstreet, the medical

director at Florida’s Inter-national Child Development Resource Centre.

was found to have internal inflam mation and was treated with medication, His

parents were advised to put him on a gluten-free diet.

Now the child is speaking and is attending mainstream school. The severity of

his autism has decreased markedly.