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Posted October 4, 2019: by Bill Sardi
News sources report a link between women who have morning sickness during pregnancy and having an autistic child. A study of 50,000 women with hyperemesis gravidarum, the technical name for morning sickness during pregnancy, reveals a 53% greater rick for having an autistic child. The news report stated that pregnant women who can’t keep their food down or have stopped eating because of repeated vomiting or dry heaves suggests a nutrient deficiency that is evoked by the emesis (vomiting) may be involved. The report is published in the American Journal of Perinatology.
Nausea and vomiting are symptoms of severe vitamin B1 deficiency apart from pregnancy.
Morning sickness may induce vomiting that expels food and dry heaves and cause the pregnant female to stop eating altogether, inducing an obvious deficiency of nutrients. Nutrients are critical at every phase of the pregnancy for the health of the developing fetal infant. It is recommended, but often overlooked, to provide vitamin B1(thiamine) to prevent vitamin deficiency-induced developmental problems in the pre-born. Women who attempt to overcome morning sickness at home may never receive instruction to supplement the diet with vitamin B1.
Derrick Lonsdale MD, the reigning expert in vitamin B1 therapy, writes there is a relationship between B1 deficiency and autism.
One study shows that even infants whose mothers exclusively breast feed have measurably lower blood levels of vitamin B1. Vitamin supplementation beyond birth are suggested.
The treatment of autistic children with vitamin B1 (as allithiamine) rectal suppositories improved clinical symptoms in 8 of 10 subjects, 3 who were B1 deficient and 7 that had normal blood levels.
Brainstem damage is believed to be involved in autism. Dr. Lonsdale claims the brainstem of infants may be damagedby alcohol use (which depletes vitamin B1) or vitamin B1 deficiency apart from alcohol use.
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (brain disease) occurs in adults who drink alcohol and become B1 deficient. Autistic children may not eat adequate amounts of food and become vitamin deficient. The case of an autistic child with a severe eating disorder who developed B1 deficiency and was diagnosed with Wernicke’s encephalopathyhas been reported, a disorder that is generally confined to adult alcoholics.
Given that autism is such a horrible disorder, and the association between thiamin vitamin B1 deficiency and autism is growing, and thiamine supplementation is benign and economical, society can’t afford to wait for more evidence to be reported and scientific consensus reached before B1 supplementation for breast-feeding mothers and at-risk children be universally recommended.
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