by Dr. Brian Udell | May 17, 2015 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Conferences, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Genetics, Patient experiences, Research, Special Therapies, Speech and Language, Stem Cells
A growing number of children with tiny genetic differences, known as copy number variations, have accompanied the steady increase of patients who visit The Child Development Center. Often, the conventional advice is that 1) such anomalies are probably not significant,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | May 3, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Conferences, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Special Therapies, Speech and Language
I had the privilege of speaking at the Talk About Curing Autism Conference, which was held in Philadelphia this weekend (5.1.15). The topic that I was asked to present was Mast Cells. Dr. T C Theoharides is a world’s expert on this subject, but couldn’t...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 26, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Speech and Language, Vitamin B12
The Physicians’ Desk Reference is the text that professionals turn to first, when checking on a prescription medication. Though it contains more a thousand pages describing 330 medications, the condition ‘speech apraxia’ doesn’t appear. That...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 18, 2015 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Speech and Language, Vaccines
“If you have seen one child with autism, you have seen one child with autism,” is an often-used aphorism. An important corollary: so far, there are only patterns to follow, and a single ‘cure’ may not be the cure. There isn’t one kind of...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 12, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Conferences, Diets, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Speech and Language, Vitamin D
Just about every one of our patients “do the diet”. It’s different for each child. Parents are asked to avoid the foods that test in the highest range of immunoglobulin-4 (that’s I-g-G ‘four’) levels. That is considered...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Apr 2, 2015 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Diets, Gastrointestinal Issue, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Sensory issues
Autism Awareness is not just about slogans, license plates, Autism Walks, or assorted news stories. The term carries a variety of implications, including: Public Opinion Awareness will come when we quit arguing about whether there is an autism epidemic or not. We need...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 22, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Anxiety, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Genetics, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Sleep, Speech and Language
Parents frequently express concern that their child’s progress is too slow. They want to be sure that something is not being missed. As months and years pass, and especially if there is little progress from conventional therapies, their search begins and/or...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 15, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, Conferences, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Special Therapies, Speech and Language
The Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs provides this semiannual standard-of-care meeting, which is dedicated to teaching physicians and other practitioners who care for patients with ASD. Various educational courses were offered, covering a variety of...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 8, 2015 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Diets, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, GcMAF, HBOT for ASD, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Research, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Special Therapies, Speech and Language, Stem Cells
Secretin, OSR, Namenda (memantine), Bumex (bumetanide), Actos, Spironolactone, and more, have all been prescribed to improve the signs and symptoms that ASD individuals experience and display. Some are only used in rare circumstances, others are no longer even...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 1, 2015 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Therapies, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Sensory issues
It became headline news, this week, when Wired magazine reported “The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress.” The usual reaction by those involved in the autism community has been, “Tell us something we don’t know!” The...
