by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 22, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Holidays & Vacations, Patient experiences
For this post, my compassionate and ever-helpful office manager, Karen, suggested the title “I Had a Holistic Summer”. She was referring to the annual autumn influx of parent attempting various nutritional supplements in order to address their...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 13, 2011 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Patient experiences
Well, I did it! I have made some progress informing the pediatric community – at least some of the local ones – about the diagnosis and treatment of what we call autism.In the first instance, one of my female youngsters was being examined for a possible...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Oct 3, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Patient experiences
In 5 or 10 years, when medical science begins to make some sense of what we, today, call ASD, there will be a new name that better reflects this 21st century epidemic and there will be subcategories that best fit the individuality which is part of this syndrome. So,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Sep 18, 2011 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Holidays & Vacations, Patient experiences
One of the more controversial autism treatments is a diet that excludes milk and wheat protein. This observation has been so strong in the complementary and alternative medicine community that the restricted diet is consistently listed among the top therapies which...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Sep 11, 2011 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Diets, Patient experiences
Mention vitamin treatments for developmental problems and you will get plenty of raised eyebrows and non-believing looks. Well, first, if you think that ASD or ADHD are basically genetic diseases that can’t be treated, such an intervention will certainly make...