First and foremost, note that I am extremely wary of medicating children at all. I do NOT give my ASD son ANY drugs over than the occasional tylenol or ibuphrofen for pain or fever.
My question would be this: what PART of ASD does this pill claim to treat? ASD presents with a huge palet of symptons, and not all are common to all children. It would not be even theoretically possible, to me, to treat all of that huge paletl at once. So any medication would be targeted to a particular concern. I am sure the makers of the pill have a target aspect to treat. A parent would need to know WHICH concern/aspect is targeted to even begin the discussion of if the pill should be considered for their child.
If the commercial never mentioned it, what the target aspect it, then I'm extra suspect from the start (I'm always suspect of the idea you can treat AS with a pill, but extra suspect of the concept of blanketing such a complex pallet with a single pill). Did the commercial provide any specifics?
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Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).
31 Jul 2008, 1:30 pm
