14 DAY TRIAL // Experts with the MIND Institute at the university of California in Davis (UCD) found in a new study that more and more parents of autistic children turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for treating these disorders, or other forms of development delays that their kids display.
Interestingly, CAM approaches appeared to be favored by families where parents had high levels of both education and income. The team also determined that these therapies were not used because conventional treatments were unavailable, but rather to complement and add to the latter.
The investigation, led by expert Robin Hansen, MD, the chief of the Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the UCD School of Medicine, is detailed in the latest issue of the esteemed Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics, PsychCentral reports.
In this study, scientists found that parents preferred CAM approaches such as meditation, prayer, probiotics, alternative diets, homeopathic remedies, chelation therapy, or vitamin B-12 injections. The team warns that some of these treatments can be dangerous, especially for children.