ARTICLE called Leo Kanner who blamed mothers for autism . I don ' t know if you ' ve read that sort of literature . And he blamed maternal neglect as a cause of autism …
In essence , a group in the USA have looked at autistic children , and they took 18 or 16 autistic children and saw that these children had no prevotella organisms in their gut . They had a very dysbiotic microbiome - a not good microbiome . They then use faecal transplantation to reconstitute the bowels of these children and they found extraordinary results . Six or seven of these children completely recovered . Eight of the children out of the 16 had severe autism that went down to three . A whole group of these kids became completely non-autistic .
… they took the stool of the autistic patients , and gave that to mice and saw that the mice that received autistic patient ' s stool became autistic . It ' s difficult to measure autism in mice , obviously , but there ' s certain things that mice do that are very abnormal neurologically . And this is something that we see all over the microbiome that you can transfer diseases by transferring stool between a patient and a control , to a mouse . For instance , when you look at fatty liver disease , when you look at the alcoholic type of hepatitis , if you take the stool of a patient with alcoholic hepatitis , and you give it to a mouse , then that mouse develops the same sort of hepatitis problem . So the microbiome is driving the alcoholic hepatitis and the microbiome can transfer the alcoholic type of hepatitis phenotype to a different species . It ' s extraordinary data . But for me , the data on autism is extraordinary , because we know very , very little about it . There is no way that we know how to treat this disease . It ' s a very complex disease . And there ' s been a small study , you know , but a very well designed study , showing definite differences . And a transferability of a phenotype . It ' s extraordinary .
* EDITOR ’ S NOTE : The Assistant Editor of JATMS has a special interest in the education of children with autism and notes the potential of these findings to open an important avenue of research for both educators and CAM practitioners .
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