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Originally Posted by mcewen
Thanks for that, the CFGF diet is widely used with some startling results for some. However, one of my little chaps is 'neophobic' = eats less than 20 foods [7 currently] so if I cut anything out he might fade away completely!
All the best for the New Year and thanks for the tip
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Do you have him on vitamin supliments?
I worked as a nurse with autistic kids 30 years ago
I just read the blog reference you gave. I ddn't read it all (Is it you?)
but was stopped in my tracks by this
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“What is the badest smell dear?”
“It is you! You are the badest smell. You are worster than peanuts!”
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Do some/one/all, autistic children have heightened sense of smell?
See the
fragrance & perfume thread (and check your CP rep)
PS
This NIH study is something to look at
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A version of a gene has been linked to autism in families that have more than one child with the disorder.
Inheriting two copies of this version more than doubled a child’s risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder,
. . .
While most previous studies had focused on genes expressed in the brain, Levitt’s team saw a clue in the fact that some people with autism also have gastrointestinal, immunological or neurological symptoms in addition to behavioral impairments. They focused on a gene that affects such peripheral functions . ..
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WebWire® | Gene Linked to Autism in Families with More Than One Affected Child
The stomach has its own brain according to Dr. Dean Edell.
( seen in
The Odd Body 2 S juan)
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NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DAMAGE IN AUTISM: AN INFECTION-BASED MODEL
Exposure of the fetus and newborn infant around the time of
birth ("perinatal exposure") to infectious agents and toxins has
been linked to the pathogenesis of certain human neuropsychiatric
disorders, particularly *autism.
But the mechanisms by which environmental factors such as infectious agents and toxins interact with developing immune and neural systems to create neurodevelopmental disturbances are only poorly understood.
Autism disorders occur as frequently as 1 in 500 children, a
rate that may be increasing in some geographical regions.
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ScienceWeek
Here:
Entrez PubMed
are 15 papers on
Borna virus and Autism
eg
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1: Lancaster K, Dietz DM, Moran TH, Pletnikov MV.
Abstract Abnormal social behaviors in young and adult rats neonatally infected with Borna disease virus.
Behav Brain Res. 2007 Jan 10;176(1):141-8. Epub 2006 Jul 21.
PMID: 16860408 [PubMed - in process]
2: Libbey JE, Sweeten TL, McMahon WM, Fujinami RS.
Abstract Autistic disorder and viral infections.
J Neurovirol. 2005 Feb;11(1):1-10. Review.
PMID: 15804954 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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