Attention Parents! Discover What Works For Autism (Video)

So you're a parent of a child who has been recently diagnosed with autism? If you're a parent who does research on the Internet, then it is likely that you've stumbled across biomedical solutions that may help your child. Unfortunately, weeding through the choices of what works for autism can be overwhelming. According to Dr. Kurt Woeller, biomedical treatments are the sure way to help your child improve - roughly 75-80% of children make improvements.

Since you know that so many people say that biomedical treatments are the way to go, the next step is finding out what exactly works.

Dr. Woeller says that the single most important intervention revolves around digestive health, like supplements and modifying a child's diet. He also suggests that children with autism have problems with their methylation pathways in the body, which injections of methyl-b12 - a vitamin, can help correct.

He says that many of these kids can improve from other vitamin supplementation, from calcium all the way to selenium.

He also credits fatty acids as being important, like the Omega-3 fatty acids in cod liver oil in order to help repair the brain.

Since many of these children have problems detoxifying and have very limited diets, cleaning up a child's diet and supplementing can help fill some of the nutrition needs of the child.

Separate from nutrition, antiviral therapy can prove to be very affective because of the "viral overload" that often occurs with these children because they do not detoxify. One specific drug that can be used with fairly quick results is Valtrex, according to Woeller.

One of the most effective treatments for autism involve anti-fungals. Many of these children have yeast overgrowth that occurs in their intestines, which can contribute to many of the symptoms of autism. A drug that doesn't go into the bloodstream that is very safe is called Nystatin - this drug just passes right through the body. Other antifungals, like Diflucan, are systemic and they very effective in treating types of yeast that affect various parts of the body.

As far as detoxification is concerned, many of these kids respond very well to heavy metal detoxification programs, like chelation, in order to help reduce the heavy metal load inside of their bodies.

Lastly, hyperbaric treatment therapies have been shown to be very beneficial by restoring oxygen to specific parts of the brain and increasing oxygen to the body, in general.

Diet And Supplement Troubleshooting - What Went Wrong?

Sometimes parents experience forks in the road when treating their children. Sometimes, children can be doing very well and progress with supplements, when suddenly they experience a regression of symptoms. According to Woeller, this is most likely caused from yeast overgrowth or from a food infraction, like gluten or casein if your child is on a restricted diet.

Overall, what a parent can do to help their child is to be consistent with treatments. This means that dietary changes and supplements need to stay the same once a child stabilizes and starts making good gains. It is important for a parent to stay alert and to know when yeast or bacteria overgrowth occurs by observing a childs behavior every day.