http://iacc.hhs.gov/events/2013/full-committee-mtg-comorbidities-july9.shtml

IACC Full Committee Comorbidities (References) - July 9, 2013
Below you will find links to the recent articles and guidelines on medical comorbidities in autism.[/div class="excerpt"]

..includes the following links:

Buie T. The relationship of autism and gluten. Clin Ther. May 2013.

Shorter and Wachtel. Childhood catatonia, autism and psychosis past and present: is there an 'iron triangle'? Acta Psychiatr Scand. July 2013.

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Read more: http://iacc.hhs.gov/events/2013/full-committee-mtg-materials-july9.shtml

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INFORMED COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/07/katie-wright-on-iaccbuie-educates-wachtel-shocks.html#more

Katie Wright On IACC: Buie Educates, Wachtel Shocks

By Katie Wright
July 10, 2013 at 5:44 AM

Dr. Tim Buie gave an incredible and impassioned presentation on the pervasiveness and severity of GI disorders among the ASD population. Buie provided devastating video footage of young ASD adults with pre GI treatment engaging in aggressive and self-injurious behavior. He spoke about how vastly under diagnosed this problem is and how the manifestations of pain are largely treated as troublesome behaviors, treated with anti-psychotics. Over and over Buie detailed classic signs of GI pain in the severely affected and minimally verbal ASD population:

1) Strange posturing, laying on table and chairs
2) Self injurious behavior
3) Aggressive behavior, biting and scratching
4) Food refusal
5) The obvious: constipation and diarrhea

Buie estimated that over 50% of ASD children have GI disorders yet only small percentages actually receive treatment. Even today as the AAP accepts that GI disease among ASD children is real, most pediatricians and pediatric GIs do cannot recognize the signs of GI pain nor correctly diagnose the problem.

Immediately afterwards Dr. Buie Dr. Lee Wachtel of Kennedy Kreiger gave a talk that was as bizarre as it was disturbing. Watchel theorizes that a number of symptoms commonly found in ASD people are actually a psychiatric disorder called “catatonia.”

What are the symptoms of catatonia?

1) Strange posturing
2) Self injurious behavior
3) Food refusal
4) Constipation

Guess what the treatment for “catatonia” is? ECT -ElectroConvulsive Therapy. (Yup, shock treatment.)

I mean really, the woman was sitting through Buie’s presentation but is so determined to proceed with her wacky theories and barbaric treatment she just blocked it all out?

Kennedy Krieger’s autism unit is entirely psychiatric. No GI experts, no immunological clinicians, and no discussion of possible celiac or debilitating food allergies, nothing about regression…..It is all in your head, baby.

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