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You do not need to have any particular view about vaccines and autism; but there are some very strange connections between mercury and autism. I came back to look at this subject, having noticed that one of the more rational/objective researchers included a chelating agent in his patent for autism treatment.    Chelating agents remove heavy metals like mercury or lead from the body, but they also remove important elements like calcium.   Very high or low levels of electrolytes like Ca or K can kill you. In 2006 clinical trials on chelation therapy in autism were halted by the US National Institute of Health on “safety reasons”.   But in 2012, a much bigger 5 year long, $30 million study called Trial to Assess ChelationTherapy (TACT) in coronary heart disease reported back that this “fringe” therapy did indeed work, though for reasons unknown. Chelation Therapy: What To Do With Inconvenient Evidence The autism trial was to use a chemical called DMSA,   while t...

This may sound like a very odd subject for my blog.   In 2002 US President George Bush first used the term “Axis of Evil” to refer collectively to Ian, Iraq and North Korea.   Later that year the then-Undersecretary of State John Bolton gave a speech entitled "Beyond the Axis of Evil"; in it he added three more nations to be grouped together: Cuba, Libya and Syria. Finally, in 2005 Bush’s Secretary of State came up with “Outposts of tyranny” to refer to Cuba, Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe. Many readers of my blog are from the US and may think that not much good can be going on in Iran.   The reality is quite the reverse, at least in the field of autism. In spite being under all kinds of economic sanctions, Iran has generated a substantial body of insightful research.   There are 75 million Iranians which is just under the population of Germany.   I do not recall seeing much German research into autism.   One particular researcher, Shahin Akhondzadeh , has don...

I wrote extensive earlier posts about using H1 anti-histamine drugs to control autism flare-ups.   Summertime allergies can result in anger, loss of control and ultimately, self-injury. Controlling Anger In Autism with H1 antagonist, Claritin Histamine, allergies and reducing challenging “autistic-like” behaviours More on anti-histamines in Autism and introducing H4   Although this blog is about pharmacological interventions that can help in autism, I am firmly in the ABA behavioural intervention camp.   The drugs can indeed help, but are always going to be secondary to a very labour intensive intervention.   Anger in autism Depending on how lucky you are, parents experience widely differing levels of anger from kids with ASD.   For those who have not experienced the extremes, here is my summary:- Level 1            Bad temper Level 2            Tantrum w...