Autism / Antibiotic Clinical Trial

[PacificMama]

Saw this the other day in a lyme email. The new study is "controversial"... surprise.

 

Here is a short excerpt with link:

 

Luc Montagnier is applying unorthodox ideas to the treatment of autism. With support from the Autism Research Institute (ARI), based in San Diego, California, the Nobel laureate is about to launch a small clinical trial of prolonged antibiotic treatment in children with autism disorders. The trial will also use techniques based on Montagnier's research into the notion that water can retain a 'memory' of long-vanished pathogens, and that DNA sequences produce water nanostructures that emit electromagnetic waves, published last year. But experts are critical and worry that the nobelist's status may lend unwarranted credibility to unconventional approaches to autism.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468743a.html

[MichaelTampa]

Thanks for posting, great to hear that at least some real research is going on.

 

Yes yes, very scary to have research going on regarding things that have worked for some people. It always sounds so crazy when they refer to actual experiences as not "evidence based".

[sptcmom]

thanks so much for posting. I took a print out for the parents at my work. Atleast some hope for them. Its a long way off but its a start. All pioneers have to face the wrath of the dinosaurs in the business. Good for the good old doc!

[mom love]

That is a very interesting article. He is a nobel prize winner for co-discovering HIV and he received alot of backlash and doubt back then for it. There is a movement within the autism community reseaching more about PANDAS/strep and its role and likely link/cause of autism in many cases, especially for non responders to the DAN! protocol. My guess is that his study will show that antibiotics will show a significant improvement in the autism cases. Hopefully he will do all the microbe testing first for strep, lyme, myco p to know what the abx are helping.

[lyme_mom]

Saw this the other day in a lyme email. The new study is "controversial"... surprise.

 

Here is a short excerpt with link:

 

Luc Montagnier is applying unorthodox ideas to the treatment of autism. With support from the Autism Research Institute (ARI), based in San Diego, California, the Nobel laureate is about to launch a small clinical trial of prolonged antibiotic treatment in children with autism disorders. The trial will also use techniques based on Montagnier's research into the notion that water can retain a 'memory' of long-vanished pathogens, and that DNA sequences produce water nanostructures that emit electromagnetic waves, published last year. But experts are critical and worry that the nobelist's status may lend unwarranted credibility to unconventional approaches to autism.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468743a.html

Very exciting! The water thing sounds like biofeedback similar to what the ondamed machine does -testing for frequencies of bugs and viruses. Very cool.