Autism Therapy: mycoplasma

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The Association between Tick-Borne Infections, Lyme Borreliosis and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Medical Hypotheses, by Bransfield, RC, Wulfman JS, Harvey WT, and Asman AI, published in 2008, summarized May 23, 2008

Antibiotics that treat Lyme disease may help some people with autism.

This article was written to describe the possibility that autism is made worse by Lyme disease. Many doctors and parents have noticed that mothers who had Lyme disease were more likely to give birth to children with autism. Also many adults who get Lyme disease have symptoms that are like autism. The authors believe that 20-30% of autism may be caused by the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. They believe that another infectious agent (Mycoplasma) may be a factor in 58% of cases of autism.


Evidence for Mycoplasma ssp., Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Human Herpes Virus-6 Coinfections in the Blood of Patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Journal of Neuroscience Research, by Nicolson, GL, Gan R., Nicolson NL, and Haier J., published in 2007, summarized Apr 30, 2007

Children with autism may have more long-term infections than other children.

These authors have shown that soldiers from the Gulf War had chronic infections that they also passed on to their family. This study was done to see if children with autism had more infections than other children. They found that children with autism were more likely to have three types of infections: Mycoplasma (bacteria), C. pneumoniae (bacteria), and HHV-6 (virus). The study had only 48 children with autism and 45 age-matched controls. The authors suggest that treating these infections may help to improve the symptoms of autism.


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