Another supposed “cure” for autism

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This article appeared on my Facebook feed.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. There are people who are dumb enough to try anything.

Why am I trying to figure out how the phrase "Full of s***" applies?

I've tried Metamucil. Now for plan I for Imodium.

Like horse de-wormer for covid, perhaps?

Did anyone here actually bother to read the article before insulting it?

In case any simpletons would rather educate themselves than make jokes:

I even took the time to draw attention to the key points, but carry on like the scientists are the ignorant ones.

Easiest solution would be for one of us to give it a test.

Funeralxempire is correct. The article is actually interesting.

Biology is super-complicated and few drugs are so simple that they do only one thing. That's why side effects exist. Of course, whether something is the effect or the side effect is entirely a matter of what you're trying to do. If your anti-diarrhea drug also happens to make people feel good, that's a side effect you'd hardly bother warning anyone about.

I have two disabled kids, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that there's a link somewhere. One of them, of course, is autistic. The other one has Crohn's, which causes (among other things) chronic diarrhea. So I would not be surprised at all if a medicine that looked promising for one looked promising for the other.

If someone could help either of my boys, I would be grateful forever.

I had food poisoning last night. Wish I had some of those tablets. Probably would have made my night a bit more bearable and maybe cured my autism while I was at it. But jokes aside, I really dont view my autism as being broken. I cant speak for anyone else, but I dont feel broken. I have empathy. In fact, I often seem to be able to understand different points of view better than most people. I understand body language, tone of voice and facial expressions just fine. What I need is a bit of respect. What WE need is a bit of respect. Not trying to diminish anyone elses experience of autism, everyones different and if someone feels broken, who am I to tell them theyre not?

I don't feel broken, either. I think I'm just different, though I don't even feel different...I have concluded I must be different because that is the only way to explain how the world has treated me.

Biology and chemistry are not my fields but I did notice that a base premise in that study is that I'm not different, I'm broken.

And reality is just begging for jokes when they are looking at anti-diarrhea medication to "cure" social and communication differences.

Doesn't seem that lucrative of a cure.

It's not but luckily it doesn't matter anyway. The concept of diarrhea meds somehow mitigating against a serious social disorder is so absurd that it belongs as a joke in Monty python.

Same as the "cure" that involved transplanting NT human s**t into the gastrointestinal tract of autistics.

They're scientists and all but even they should know better than this.

It's a good money making scheme for them I guess while they get paid to "research". It's interesting actually that such strange concepts even put on the table.

Desperate enough to try anything.

In which case the view that this is a Quack item only seems strengthenned - by analagy, alcohol is often associated with a lowering of inhibition which some people finds eases social situations; by showing animprovement in observed ease in social situations, is alcohol also a cure for autism ?

Binding to a receptor and firing a nerve cell is not the same as altering an underlying interconnection scheme.
Any more than an experiement in cell culture is a conclusive proof that a drug formulated and tested against Paraiste diseases somehow will definiately work agains diseases caused by a virus.

I'm sure I remember a time when the received wisdom was that there's no medication for ASD. I'm somewhat alarmed at how hard they try to get us onto tablets.

I wonder if they've looked into the potential side-effect of constipation? Anyway, we'll see what becomes of the idea in a year or two. I'll wager it won't emerge as an effective treatment, and those mice will have been tortured and killed for no good reason.

most adults and about half of children and adolescents with ASD are treated with antipsychotic drugs, which have serious side effects or lack efficacy in ASD

Do they really prescribe antipsychotics that often, or are the authors exaggerating things to justify what they're doing? That's not a rhetorical question. I see the UK appreciates there's a problem with overprescribing antipsychotics to us, but the numbers aren't as bad, so maybe it's more of a problem in the USA which is notorious for overtreating and getting worse outcomes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... troduction

I think those who say people should read the article before commenting have a strong point, but I wish they'd express it more courteously. I don't think putting people's backs up will help to get the message across. Nobody's even said they didn't read it, so it seems a tad strange to me that anybody would go on the offensive about a problem that might not exist.