Autism

Autism: symptoms, causes, and treatment

1. Contents of the page
2. what is autism
3. Syndrome
4. Causes and risk factors
5. Diagnosis
6. treatment

Alternative treatments

Autism (Autism) is a disorder of a group of developmental disorders known in the medical language as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), which appear at infancy, most likely before the child reaches the age of three.

Although the severity and symptoms of autism vary from case to case, all self-disorders affect the child's ability to communicate with those around him and develop mutual relationships with them.

Estimates show that 6 out of every 1,000 children in the United States have autism and that the number of diagnosed cases of this disorder is constantly increasing.

It is not known, until now, whether this increase is a result of detection and better reporting of cases, or is it a real and real increase in the number of people with autism, or the result of these two factors together.

Although there is no cure for autism, until now, intensive and early treatment, as possible, can make a noticeable and serious change in the lives of children with this disorder.

Symptoms of autism

Children with autism also suffer, almost certainly, from difficulties in three basic development areas:

1. Social relations are mutual
2. The language
3. the behavior.

Given the different signs and symptoms of autism from one patient to another, it is likely that each of two different children, with the same medical diagnosis, will behave in very different ways and each will have completely different skills.

But severe cases of autism are characterized, in most cases, by the absolute inability to communicate or to establish reciprocal relationships with other people.

Symptoms of autism appear in most infants, during infancy, while other children may develop and develop completely naturally during the months or years, the first of their lives, but they suddenly become closed to themselves, hostile or lose the language skills they have acquired up to this moment.


Although every child suffers from symptoms of autism, it appears of its own character and patterns, but the following features are the most common for this type of disorder:

1- Social skills

• He is not responding to his name
• No more direct eye contact
• Often he does not hear his interlocutor
• He refuses to hug or shrinks on himself
• He does not seem to realize the feelings and feelings of others
• He seems to love to play alone, expecting his own person in his world.

2- Language skills

• Speech (pronunciation of words) begins at a later age, compared to other children
• It loses the ability to say specific words or phrases that it previously knew
• Establishes visual contact when he wants something
• Speaks with a strange voice or with different tones and rhythms, speaks with lyric, tired or robotic voice (robot)
• He cannot initiate a conversation or continue an existing conversation
• He may repeat words, phrases or terms, but he does not know how to use them.

3- Behavior

• Perform frequent movements like vibrating, circling or waving
• It develops customs and rituals, which it always repeats
• He loses his knife when there is any change, even the slightest or smallest change, in these customs or rituals
• Always moving
• He is stunned and dazzled by certain parts of items, such as turning a wheel in a toy car
• Excessively sensitive to light, sound or touch, but unable to feel pain.

Young children experience difficulties when asked to share their experiences with others. And when reading a story for them, for example, they cannot point their finger at the pictures in the book.

This social skill, which develops at a very early age, is necessary to develop linguistic and social skills in a later stage of development.

As children get older toward adulthood, part of them can become more able and ready to mix and integrate into the surrounding social environment, and they may exhibit behavioral disorders less than that characterizing autism, so that some of them succeed in leading a normal life or lifestyle. Close to normal and normal.

On the other hand, others continue to have difficulties in language skills and in social intercourse, until their attainment only increases their behavioral problems worse and worse.

Department of kids, slow to learn new information and skills. Others have a normal IQ, or even higher than other, normal people. These children learn quickly, but have communication problems, to apply things they have learned in their daily lives and to adapt / adapt themselves to changing social situations and situations.


A very small group of children with autism are self-educated and have exceptional unique skills, especially concentrated in a specific area such as art, mathematics or music.

Causes and risk factors for autism

No single and only factor is known to be the definitively confirmed cause of autism.

But taking into account the complexity of the disease, the extent of self-disorder and the fact that there is a mismatch between two self-states, that is, between two autistic children, there are likely to be many factors for the causes of autism.

• Genetic disorders: Researchers discovered the presence of several genes that are likely to have a role in causing autism, some of which make the child more vulnerable to the disorder, while others affect the growth and development of the brain and the way brain cells communicate with each other.

Any genetic defect, per se and alone, may be responsible for a number of states of autism, but it appears, in a holistic view, that genetics generally have a very central, or even crucial, impact on autism disorder. Some genetic disorders may be inherited (others), while others may appear spontaneous.

• Environmental factors: A large part of health problems are the result of both genetic and environmental factors combined. This may be true in the case of subjectivity, too. Recently, researchers are examining the possibility of a viral infection, or environmental pollution (air pollution, in particular), for example, a catalyst for the emergence and emergence of autism.

• Other factors: There are other factors, too, that are subject to research and study recently, including: problems during labor, or during childbirth itself, and the role of the immune system in everything related to self. Some researchers believe that amygdala - a part of the brain that acts as a detector of danger situations - is one of the factors that stimulate the onset of autism.

One of the central points of contention in everything related to autism revolves around the question of whether there is any relationship between autism and a part of the vaccines (Vaccines) given to children, with particular emphasis on:

• MMR Triple vaccine - Measles (Rubeola / Measles) and Red (Rubella / German Measles)

• Other vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative that contains a minimal amount of mercury.

Although most of the vaccines given to children today do not contain thimerosal, as of 2001, disagreement and controversy remain. Recent comprehensive studies and research have shown that there is no relationship between vaccines and autism.

Autism risk factors

Self may appear in any child of any origin or nationality, but there are known risk factors that increase the risk of autism. These factors include:

• Child gender: Research has shown that the likelihood of infecting male children with autism is three to four times greater than the risk of infecting females
• Family history: Families with an autistic child have a higher chance of having another child with the disease. A well-known and common thing is that parents or relatives who have a child with autism suffer, themselves, from certain disorders in some developmental or developmental skills, or even from certain self-directed behaviors.Other disorders: Children with certain medical problems are more likely to have autism. 
• These medical problems include: Fragile x syndrome, an inherited syndrome that leads to mental disorder, tuberous sclerosis, which leads to the formation and development of brain tumors, a neurological disorder known as "Tourette syndrome" Epilepsy, which causes seizures.
• Parent's age: Researchers tend to think that paternity at a later age may increase the risk of autism.

A very comprehensive research has shown that children born to men over the age of forty years are 6 times more likely to develop autism than children born to parents under the age of thirty. Research shows that the mother's age has a marginal effect on the likelihood of autism.

Diagnosed with autism

The treating pediatrician conducts regular growth and development checks to detect a child's developmental delay.

In the event of symptoms of autism in the child, you can refer to a doctor specializing in the treatment of autism, who, in cooperation with a team of other specialists, an accurate evaluation of the disorder.

Because autism ranges between very many degrees of the severity of the disease and the severity of its symptoms, diagnosing self-identity may be a complex and complex task, as there is no specific medical examination to detect an existing condition of self-identity.

Instead, the formal assessment of autism includes a child’s doctor’s examination, a conversation with parents about a child’s social skills, language abilities, behavior, and how and how these factors change and develop over time.

In order to diagnose the symptoms of autism, the doctor may request that the child be subjected to several tests and tests aimed at assessing his verbal and linguistic abilities and examining some psychological aspects.

Although initial symptoms of autism often appear before the age of 18 months, the final diagnosis is, sometimes, when a child reaches the age of two or three years, only, when there is an imbalance in development, a delay in acquiring language skills , Or an imbalance in social relations that are evident at this stage of life.

Early diagnosis is very crucial, because early intervention, as possible, especially before the child reaches the age of three years, is a very important element in achieving the best prospects and opportunities for improvement in the situation.

Autism treatment

To this day, there is no single treatment appropriate for all patients with the same amount. In fact, the range of treatments available for autistic patients that can be adopted at home or at school is amazingly varied and pluralistic.
The attending physician can help find the resources available in the housing area that can be helpful tools in working with an autistic child.

Autism treatment includes:

• Behavioral Therapy and Speech - language pathology
• Educational - educational therapy
• Drug therapy.

Alternative treatments

Because autism is a very difficult and difficult condition that does not have a cure, many people resort to solutions offered by Alternative medicine.

Although some families reported that they had achieved positive results after treating autism with a special diet and other alternative therapies, researchers cannot confirm or deny the efficacy of these various treatments for autistic patients.

Some very common alternative treatments include:

• Creative and innovative treatments
• Their own diets.