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What is biomedical treatment?
"In simplest terms, it is the identifying of certain biochemical imbalances that when corrected allows the body to function better." -Excerpt from an article by Beth Vataker. Click HERE to read entire article.
Local DAN! Doctors :
(Information taken from Autism Research Institute website, please see that site for more information on DAN! protocol and their physician list.)
Dr. Amy Davis
6216 Baxter Rd., Ste. 110
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Telephone: 636-778-9158
Fax: 636-778-9162
Email: answers@cbth.biz
Tipu Sultan, M.D.
Environmental Health & Allergy
11585 West Florissant Ave.
Florissant, MO 63033
Telephone: 314-921-5600
Fax: 314-921-8273
Email: EHACST@EHACSTL.com
Website: www.EHACSTL.com
Websites:
Autism Research Institute (DAN!)
TACA (Talk About Curing Autism)
Generation Rescue
Treating Autism
Kirkman Lab (KIRKMAN® is the oldest and one of the leading manufacturers of nutritional supplements for individuals with food allergies, special dietary requirements and environmental sensitivities.)
Brainchild Nutritionals
Pfeiffer Treatment Center
The Great Plains Laboratory
Recovery Videos
EnteroLab
Showing posts with label Biomedical Treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biomedical Treatment. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Book Review: Children With Starving Brains
This book was written by a doctor who began researching autism and treatments when she realized her granddaughter was autistic. She is now a DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) doctor.
This book was written to educate parents and physicians on the new treatments available for Autistic children. Though it explains in details the pathologies and symptoms that they are finding, the lab tests, the treatments, it is easy enough for a lay person to understand. The appendices are a little more technical and I found myself scanning a bit more in them, but they were still informative to my lay mind!
The book is divided into a Introduction that describes how austitic children are children with real medical illnesses that can be treated and how the author became involved in biomedical treatment. Part one describes the foundation for a broad spectrum biomedical approach to ASD. It includes causation models (gentics, vaccines, heavy metals, immunity, diet, etc), GI Pathology-Nutrient Deficincies and Impaired Detoxification, Toxic Accumulations and Politics. Part 2 gotes in to Diagnosis and Treatment. This is where she describes the clinical and diagnostic evaluations, Gut healing, nutrients, chelation (removing heavy metals) and Immune issues. Part 3 includes an overview and what we can learn from all this. There are several appendices with future devopments and research.
I greatly appreciated the information in this book. It really helped to pull together some of the information I heard in the talks from Dr. Davis and Dr. Walsh. It answered a lot of questions. Dr. McCandless explains the reasoning behind the diets, gut healing, nutrients, chelation, etc. She describes the lab tests and when and why you would order the various tests. She gives information on where and how the samples can be gathered and sent. She explains who a typical DAN! consultation will go. She gives resources for parents who may be limited in what help they can obtain. I appreciated that she provided sources for nutrient supplements for those who can't test.
She describes in detail the chelation process. The medicines used, the dosage and frequency. How it works. I also really appreciated that she discussed the differences and similarities between DAN! chelation protocol and the process used by Dr. Walsh at Pfeiffer. This was just what I was looking for as we try to determine which route to take. I will probably reread that chapter over. It was very helpful.
I found the chapter written by her husband to be a little new agey and evironmentalist. If he had written the entire book, I would probably have put it down! His anectodotal obsevations were interesting, but it was kind of a strange section.
Overall, I found it to be very informative. I challenge everyone who has a loved one, or treats someone on the Spectrum to read this book and educate yourself on the illnesses that most ASD children experience and the variety of treatments there are out there. Whether you choose to go the BioMedical route or not, I think it is important to be aware and informed of the options avaiable to us. It is not just some genetic disorder that one just has to live with. Children are individuals and no treatment is guarenteed to work with all kids or at the same success rate. But any improvement we can help our children to reach is better than none!
(Review written April 2007)
This book was written to educate parents and physicians on the new treatments available for Autistic children. Though it explains in details the pathologies and symptoms that they are finding, the lab tests, the treatments, it is easy enough for a lay person to understand. The appendices are a little more technical and I found myself scanning a bit more in them, but they were still informative to my lay mind!
The book is divided into a Introduction that describes how austitic children are children with real medical illnesses that can be treated and how the author became involved in biomedical treatment. Part one describes the foundation for a broad spectrum biomedical approach to ASD. It includes causation models (gentics, vaccines, heavy metals, immunity, diet, etc), GI Pathology-Nutrient Deficincies and Impaired Detoxification, Toxic Accumulations and Politics. Part 2 gotes in to Diagnosis and Treatment. This is where she describes the clinical and diagnostic evaluations, Gut healing, nutrients, chelation (removing heavy metals) and Immune issues. Part 3 includes an overview and what we can learn from all this. There are several appendices with future devopments and research.
I greatly appreciated the information in this book. It really helped to pull together some of the information I heard in the talks from Dr. Davis and Dr. Walsh. It answered a lot of questions. Dr. McCandless explains the reasoning behind the diets, gut healing, nutrients, chelation, etc. She describes the lab tests and when and why you would order the various tests. She gives information on where and how the samples can be gathered and sent. She explains who a typical DAN! consultation will go. She gives resources for parents who may be limited in what help they can obtain. I appreciated that she provided sources for nutrient supplements for those who can't test.
She describes in detail the chelation process. The medicines used, the dosage and frequency. How it works. I also really appreciated that she discussed the differences and similarities between DAN! chelation protocol and the process used by Dr. Walsh at Pfeiffer. This was just what I was looking for as we try to determine which route to take. I will probably reread that chapter over. It was very helpful.
I found the chapter written by her husband to be a little new agey and evironmentalist. If he had written the entire book, I would probably have put it down! His anectodotal obsevations were interesting, but it was kind of a strange section.
Overall, I found it to be very informative. I challenge everyone who has a loved one, or treats someone on the Spectrum to read this book and educate yourself on the illnesses that most ASD children experience and the variety of treatments there are out there. Whether you choose to go the BioMedical route or not, I think it is important to be aware and informed of the options avaiable to us. It is not just some genetic disorder that one just has to live with. Children are individuals and no treatment is guarenteed to work with all kids or at the same success rate. But any improvement we can help our children to reach is better than none!
(Review written April 2007)
Monday, October 20, 2008
Book Review: Healing the New Childhood Epidemics
I found this to be a very informative book. It was well written so that it really delved into quite a bit of information and yet was easy enough for a lay person to understand. It presented some of the same information as books such as Children With Starving Brains and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Childhood Vaccinations, and yet in a much easier to read format and with a lot more information as well. I especially found all the information about the different parts of the brain and what they do and how they interact very fascinating and helpful. It really helps to understand why certain symptoms manifest in the different disorders.
I also really appreciated the detailed information on the various aspects of the healing program. This is the kind of information I needed to really understand what the various supplements do. I know it was covered in Starving Brains, but it was presented differently here. This is an invaluable resource for anyone using DAN! protocol.
I was surprised to see the section on medications but appreciated his point of view on why they are sometimes useful and necessary, even in conjunction with biomed treatment.
I highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with any of the 4-A disorders (autism, ADHD, Asthma, and allergies) and those who would like to understand biomedical treatment better.
I also really appreciated the detailed information on the various aspects of the healing program. This is the kind of information I needed to really understand what the various supplements do. I know it was covered in Starving Brains, but it was presented differently here. This is an invaluable resource for anyone using DAN! protocol.
I was surprised to see the section on medications but appreciated his point of view on why they are sometimes useful and necessary, even in conjunction with biomed treatment.
I highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with any of the 4-A disorders (autism, ADHD, Asthma, and allergies) and those who would like to understand biomedical treatment better.
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