Parents of children with ASD are frequently asking me about oxygen therapy for their children. I need some evidences about the topic. Do you agree using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for autism? is there any evidence about it?
The popularity of oxygen therapy’s experimental uses has raised concerns that patients are being financially exploited in exchange for false hope.
Thanks for your answer, I hope to find research evidences about the topic
A recent randomized trial indicates that the use of oxygen therapy produces no clinically significant improvement in children with ASD. Please see Granpeesheh et al. (2010) in volume 4 of the journal titled Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, pages 268-275.
Please take a look on these articles. They support it.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110863014000214
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22987458
Thank you Mr Zanon, but I am not sure if there is an attachment with your answer.
"Until better evidence accrues through carefully controlled evaluations, individuals with
Autistic Spectrum Disorders should not be subjected to expensive sessions of HBOT"
Dunleavy, D., & Thyer, B. A. (2014). Is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy an Effective Treatment for Autism? A Review. Journal of Adolescent and Family Health, 6(1), 5.
You are welcome! The same authors also suggest this link. You may find it useful when talking to parents.
http://www.asatonline.org/
http://www.asatonline.org/
Ahmad, neither of the two links you provided in support of the treatment actually support it. The first, the trial, concludes that 'no overall clinically significant benefit from HBOT could be shown' and the second is a brain imaging study that showed brain oxygenation changes following oxygen treatment. That's hardly proof of anything other than that the brain uses oxygen.
No. There is no scientific evidence that it can. This is yet another pseudoscientific "cure" for autism that gives false hope to vulnerable, desperate parents.
Could we consider or suppose autism to be like a wrongly wired circuit? No two people are ever the same are they? However if this 'hard wiring' of the brain is in the genetic make up of those unique individuals who have this , then only way it could be manipulated would be through DNA splicing. Can't see how drugs or oxygen therapy would make any significant difference . Maybe we all have a little of this trait in our personalities and our genetic make up. Who is to say what is normal and what is not? We are expected to pass comment on what is not normal and this is usually behaviour which is outside our comfort zone. Do we want to cure these people who add colour and challenge to our otherwise boring lives. Most people like and stick to routine and meet deadline and goals, we like order and dislike chaos, in the main we all conform....just raising the point.
Nice to see an answer from philosophical perspective... Thank you dear Christine Barker. I agree with you, and I always instruct parents of children with ASD to simply see ASD as a "dimension of human difference" not as a defect. However, it is difficult to support such ideas in a positivist-dominating world.
Ahmad, here is a link for you to check out. I have yet to read through the site thoroughly; however, it does appear to hold some answers for you concerning Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for autism.
http://oxfordhbot.com/hbot-for-autism/
Ahmad there are some authors who reported improvement with this type of treatment, however their response is limited, and other authors do not find improvement in the symptoms of autism.
Currently, there is insufficient evidence to support use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to treat children with autism. Please have a look at the following PDF attachments.
Traditionally, hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) is indicated in several clinical disorders include decompression sickness, healing of problem wounds and arterial gas embolism. However, some investigators have used HBOT to treat individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). High-pressure oxygen therapy for children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with problems in social communication and restricted behaviors. High-pressure (hyperbaric) oxygen therapy has been proposed as treatment for these ASD symptoms.
Regards
To date, a small population (60 children) based study evaluated high-pressure oxygen therapy for ASD. This study reported there is no evidence that high-pressure oxygen therapy improved social interaction, behavioral problems, speech or language communication, or mental function in children with ASD. However, children who received high-pressure (hyperbaric) oxygen therapy showed an increased occurrence of ear barotrauma events when compared with those in the control group. [see Article Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of childhood autism: a ra...
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I think it is useful to read these links:-
Article Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder
https://www.cochrane.org/CD010922/BEHAV_high-pressure-oxygen-therapy-children-and-adults-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd
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