New STUDY SHOWS COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF major intestinal immune disease in children

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Sheri Nakken

Sunday, July 31, 2005.

 

New STUDY SHOWS COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF major intestinal immune disease

in children with autism

 

Thoughtful House scientists and collaborators confirm link between autism

and new inflammatory bowel disease

 

Austin, Texas - In a study that provides further clues to understanding

the origins of autism, scientists and physicians from Thoughtful House

Center for Children in Austin, Texas, supply considerable evidence of

a new

inflammatory bowel disease in children with autism. The study will be

published this month in the European Journal of Gastroenterology and

Hepatology. (this is posted at http://thoughtfulhouse.org/pub_06.htm)

 

The team studied 178 children undergoing intestinal investigation for

gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. More than

140 of these children also had autism, most having regressed after normal

early development. The children with autism had an increased rate of

swelling of the intestinal lymph glands (lymphoid nodular hyperplasia) - a

feature of viral infections and immunodeficiency diseases such as AIDS.

 

Additionally, the children with autism experienced associated inflammation

of the intestinal lining, while the children examined in the study without

autism did not. The degree of swelling of the intestinal lymph glands was

also more severe in children with autism compared with developmentally

normal children.

 

" The results of this study give us additional clues on understanding what

is going on in the gut and how it may lead to the brain disorder, "

says Dr.

Andrew Wakefield, Executive Director of Thoughtful House and the lead

author on the paper. " We are working on the idea that what starts in the

intestine can be severely disruptive to normal brain development. "

 

The paper dispels the common misconception that the presence of swollen

lymph glands is a normal finding in children.

 

" When we compare the intestinal findings in children with and without

autism in a systematic way, the differences become obvious, " says Dr.

Wakefield, " Colonoscopies are not performed on normal children, but on

children with gastrointestinal symptoms, so it is not possible to state

that this is a normal finding. The findings of this new study add to the

clear evidence of a novel and treatable disease of the intestinal immune

system in children with developmental disorders. These are medical

diseases

which should be treated as such. Children are suffering needlessly and

this

has got to change. "

 

The presence and severity of the swollen lymph glands was not influenced

by exclusion diets that some children were on, suggesting that food

allergy

or intolerance was not the cause. The fact that these children also have

abnormal immune systems and the resemblance of the disease to the

intestinal findings in some patients with HIV infection suggests the

disease may be associated with a smoldering viral infection.

 

" This study, in combination with previous work, raises the possibility

that treating bowel disease may alleviate some of the symptoms of autism

itself, " says Dr. Wakefield. " This is something Thoughtful House will be

putting to test in the near future. "

 

 

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath

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