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Gout and autism

Posted by Alamo Joe on January 04, 2007 at 20:56:11:

About 15 to 20 % of autistic children have high levels of uric acid. Problems with gout and uric acid are not unexpected in overweight older men and women after menopause. One would not expect problems of gout or uric acid in a large number of autistic children, unless the cause of autism is also the cause of gout. The literature states that the levels of uric acid are directly related to the severity of sleep apnea. Another paper describes the reduction of uric acid when the subject uses a CPAP machine. The collective information suggests that sleep apnea is the cause of both gout and autism. Sleep apnea also seems to be the cause of reflux, enuresis, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, ear infection and diabetes, all disorders associated with autism. This fits with some of the thoughts of Piggott:

“Children called autistic probably represent a complex of clinically similar manifestations in a variety of different subgroups of children, each subgroup representing a basically different physiologic disturbance. However, the possibility remains that there is only one basic disturbance that in varying degrees affects many body systems and thus manifests in a variety of overlapping syndromes.”

Obviously I am of the opinion that sleep apnea is a prime factor in regressive autism. I am not a doctor.

Keep smiling

CA Alamo Joe

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