by Dr. Brian Udell | May 26, 2013 | >ALL<, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Diets, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Sleep, Speech and Language
Gastro-esophageal reflux (GERD) is a disorder in which the stomach contents slosh back up into the esophagus (tube that goes from the mouth down to the stomach). When GERD happens in newborns and infants, it may be diagnosed as ‘colic’, it may be...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Jan 2, 2013 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Autism Therapies, Chelation, Earliest Red Flags, Gastrointestinal Issue, Patient experiences, Reversing autism, Sensory issues, Sleep, Speech and Language
When Leo Kanner published his landmark Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943, a contemporary wrote, “he thought what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” It’s seventy years later, we’re knee-deep in an epidemic with...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Dec 4, 2012 | >ALL<, News-Maybe-Worthy, Sleep
I spend a great deal of time and energy convincing my patients to administer melatonin to their autistic children. I wish that parents would admit to more sleep problems, so the natural supplement would get used more often. It helps biorhythms, sleep, REM sleep,...
by Dr. Brian Udell | Aug 20, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Diets, Holidays & Vacations, Sleep
One of our busiest times of the year is October, actually. Four-to-six weeks into the school year, many issues arise which require some sort of attention, or else it feels as if everything is going to fall apart. Focus. Anxiety. Fear. Teachers. Schoolmates....
by Dr. Brian Udell | Mar 19, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Patient experiences, Sleep
Parents take their child to one doctor who says, “He’s a boy, they talk late. Don’t worry.” Another doctor says, “He’s too young to make a specific diagnosis. There’s some speech and language delay (ya think?) and some OCD....
by Dr. Brian Udell | Feb 28, 2012 | >ALL<, AD/HD, Alternative and Complementary Medicine for ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, Chelation, Diets, HBOT for ASD, Holidays & Vacations, News-Maybe-Worthy, Patient experiences, Sleep, Vaccines
At the time of this post, there were over 80 million Google pages which answered to a Search request for “Autism”. There were 9 million pages for “Autism Cure”. We can’t cure autism yet; we can treat it, however, quite successfully. Such...