Autism Improvement in Young Children - 3 year old Girl Case Study

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3 year old female born 3 weeks premature to a mother with mild toxemia; fetal distress, emergency C-section. Extensive neurological workup over the next year.

Final diagnoses: Persistent Developmental Delay/Autism/Mild, Mental Retardation.

• Can't talk or walk (walks on knees)
• Minimum eye contact.
• Afraid of crowds and people.
• No self-help.
• Self-abusive behavior.

First scan: Marked reduction in blood flow to temporal lobes, less so to cerebral lobes.

80 HBOT treatments

• Walks with a walker.
• Makes eye contact and is interactive and playful.
• Comfortable in crowds and with people.
• Feeds self.
• Decreased self-abusive behavior.

Second scan: Marked improvement in blood flow to temporal and cerebral lobes.
Generalized increase to rest of brain.

7 months later: Continued generalized improvement.

• Full ambulation.
• Playful, interactive, affectionate, loving.
• Self-abusive behavior nearly gone.