Six Tips for Parents of Autistic Children

 

Autism rates have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, with the most significant increases occurring in the past decade, so I suspect there are more than a few of you reading this who have children with autism.

Though this can be a challenging disorder to treat, you DO have options. Taking your child to therapy programs that focus on developing communication, social, and cognitive skills is highly recommended, and studies show that the earlier you do this, the better.

Autism is a tragic disease and I am committed to helping those afflicted with it. In a few weeks I am attending an autism think tank in California with some of the leading physicians in the U.S. and I hope to provide you with some practical tips from that meeting.

In the meantime you can also help relieve some of your child’s symptoms with the following lifestyle changes:

1. Have your child eat a diet tailored to their nutritional type. In my experience, nearly ALL children seem to respond favorably to the dietary changes when properly implemented.

2. Avoid giving your child pasteurized milk. This is imperative to the treatment of autism, and includes all milk products, such as ice cream, yogurt and whey. Even natural flavorings in food must be avoided unless the processor can guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that caseinate is not included. Anyone managing this illness without restricting milk is deceiving themselves.

3. Eliminate sugar, juice, soda, French fries and wheat (pasta, bagels, cereal, pretzels, etc) from your child’s diet.

4. Make sure your child is getting proper sun exposure, as there is a link between rampant vitamin D deficiency and the proportionate jump in autism. As I said earlier, the vitamin D receptor appears in a wide variety of brain tissue early in the fetal development, and activated vitamin D receptors increase nerve growth in your brain.

5. Use an effective intervention to address any emotional stresses your child faces as soon as possible. Tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are excellent for this purpose. You can do EFT with your child, and also teach him how to do it himself.

6. Homeopathy may also help ameliorate symptoms.