Single Dose of IL-6 Antibodies or TNF-ᾳ Inhibitor as Potential Disease-Changing Autism Therapies
We have noted in earlier posts that autism is a dynamic encephalopathy and this may help explain why a therapy that works in a child aged 10, may be of little help to another child aged 3. Not only are there many sub-types of autism, but each sub-type is evolving, as the child matures. None of the autism drug therapies I have implemented have permanent disease changing effects, they all seem to work, but the effect is lost once you stop taking them. Today’s post is about drugs that you take just once. For a parent trying to find a drug that works in the sub-type affecting their child, this has a big advantage. No need to keep trying for months to see if the drug has any effect. Perhaps the most important time to intervene with drug therapy is as soon as possible after the diagnosis; but with what? In an earlier post on trying to get a non-verbal child to talk, I suggested the use of corticosteroids to arrest on-going neuroinflammation. Drugs li...