An article by Dr. Andrea Bolognesi
We all remember in the 70s the book "The Empty Fortress" by Bruno Bettlheim, which "revealed" to the scientific community Autism in all its drama. This text has made history and unfortunately has influenced generations of psychologists, child psychiatrists, doctors, psychiatrists, and only now, with much difficulty, began to appear in all its falseness. The tragedy of many families also joined the unnecessary burden of guilt for those mothers labeled "refrigerator mothers", alleged causes of the disaster mental. One of the most blatant examples of "collective delusion" fruit dell'ubriacatura 60-70 years of psychoanalysis.
And to think that in those years, in his book "Infantile Autism" (1964) Dr. Rimland have been developing his theories that reported the disease in its natural biomedical field, but remained in the shadows and only many years later were taken up and was recognized in the DAN!
The reality of this disease is entirely different and is slowly coming to light.
I was recently in Rome at the First European Forum of the Association DAN! Autism and our future "and I learned a lot more in two days that in years of medical and psychiatric profession. First of all, that autism is much too small and neglected, compared to an exponential increase in the past two decades: the prevalence of the 80 was 1:2000, 1:166 currently (sic) and did not eg. the same protection of celiac disease, whose prevalence is around 1:350.
Autism is a disorder of multifactorial etiology and approach DAN! E ', therefore, multidisciplinary, while having as fixed points:
1) the NEUROBIOLOGY and not psychological genesis of the disease, particularly related to noxae toxic, infectious, metabolic disorders that, acting alone or together in an early stage of neurological development (16-24 months), cause, in genetically predisposed individuals, a stop more or less serious consequences of this development with behavior, language, cognitive and social skills,
2) the continued cooperation with parents that best specialist perceives and "translate" the messages of their children.
Autism affects more than the gastroenterologist, neurologist because these children are almost always severe lesions in the gastrointestinal tract, often responsible attitudes, unusual and bizarre postures (actually analgesic). These lesions, verifiable with endoscopy, are autoimmune in origin and have to do with gluten and casein so that one of the cornerstones of therapy is the maintenance-free diet these principles.
Treatment of Autism, which is also very complex and articulated, is made of special vitamin supplements, probiotics, chelation of heavy metals and toxic endogenous and exogenous of medical treatments for gastrointestinal disorders and for candidiasis, rehabilitation at multiple levels and many other individualized interventions always and managed by a team with the major contribution of the parents of the sick child.
Medicine , especially in Italy, is still deaf and blind to all this evidence and continues to have in reference to the neuropsychiatry that, in fact, should be the last professional to appear on the scene. This is one of those cases in which parents, with their despair, have allowed medicine, perched in his absurd beliefs to change attitudes and open their eyes to reality but still complex more decipherable.
Just the parents' associations, co-ordinated around the world, are the engine of the project DAN! and have been heard in Italy in the prof. Verzella Franco, President of DAN! Europe and the conference organizer. and Dr. Balzola Frederick, gastroenterologist at the University of Turin.
speakers were also of the politicians and, in the video message, the Turkish Minister of Health, with the usual general-purpose language and persuasive, however, expressing understanding and availability. I asked one of them why the Health Service is still offering all the years new vaccines for children, when for decades Established that its vaccines are a cause of autism . He said they would wait to read the Acts of the Congress to decide and what I realized how much we are still far from a real awareness of the problem.
I was very participatory and involved the enthusiasm of parents in the room facing the stress of the representative of the American Association and I hope this will serve them strength and courage to finally shake off the lethargy of the Italian medical institutions. A first result was the declaration by the Italian Neuropsychiatry of not belonging to the Autism Psychosis (better late than never!) I hope they will follow a "step aside" monopoly for decades in the management of this disease.
For those who want to know more I give the following addresses:
www.autism.org
http / / www.genitoricontroautismo.org
http://www.autismresearchinstitute.com
Autism Research Rewiew
FLORENCE 06/03/2007 Dr. Andrea Bolognesi
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