Autism Treatment and Biomedical Intervention

Biomedical autism treatment is an expanding area of medicine that recognizes for the majority of autism-spectrum children, teenagers and adults they are dealing with underlying medical issues that are at the root cause of their autism condition. Specialists such as physicians, scientists, general healthcare practitioners, and parents have known for years that autism biomedical treatments work for a large majority of individuals with autism. These biomedical autism treatments include diet, digestive treatment for yeast, bacteria and enzymes, supplement therapy, immune support, and more. The main areas of improvement often recognized, but not limited to, are the following:

    * Better cognitive skills – learning, memory retention, etc.
    * Improved social skills – more appropriate interactions, willingness to engage socially.
    * Eye contact, attention, focusing enhanced.
    * More stable behaviors – less aggressive, tantrums, and irritability
    * Improved capacity for speech development
    * Increased environmental awareness
    * Less self-stimulatory behavior

Traditional medicine for years (and continues to do so even today) simply describes autism as a neuro-developmental disorder with no hope for recovery. Their limited scope of treatment involves psychiatric medications, and behavioral therapies. These therapies can be helpful for some individuals, and particularly certain psychiatric drugs may be necessary at times for certain behavioral problems such as aggression and self-abusive behavior. However, the biomedical field understands that autism is more than just a brain disorder. It views autism as a multi-system disorder that adversely affects the brain.

Multi-system means the immune, digestion, hormone, detoxification and blood chemistry systems all play an interactive role in many cases of autism. Imbalances, deficiencies and dysfunctions in the normal functioning of these body systems can adversely affect a person’s health and brain function – leading to what we call autism or an autism-spectrum disorder. When a person with autism is assessed medically, and their multiple underlying medical conditions are addressed through biomedical autism treatments, many times their autism condition improves or completely goes away. The medical community that addresses autism this way by implementing autism biomedical treatments recognizes that autism is treatable and reversible for some autism-spectrum individuals.