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Pamela's Place topic and guest for Friday 7/19/13 Can a Vitamin Deficiency Cause Autism?
Thursday, July 18, 2013
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Can a Vitamin Deficiency Cause Autism? Expert Pushes for Testing for Pregnant & Nursing Moms
Sally Pacholok, R.N.,author of “Could It Be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses” ( www.b12awareness.org ) has been an emergency room nurse for 26 years with 34 years of health-care experience. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Wayne State University in Detroit, and worked as a paramedic throughout her schooling. Pacholok recognized herself as B12 deficient in 1985 and has been researching and writing about this amazing vitamin ever since. She is passionate about raising awareness, preventing injury, disability and poor outcomes.
For decades, researchers have worked to solve the mystery of what causes autism, a neurological disorder characterized by difficulty communicating and forming relationships.
With the number of affected children growing at an alarming rate – today, one in every 88 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with some form of autism – the need for answers has gained urgency.
For many pregnant and nursing mothers, however, preventing developmental delay in their children is as simple as testing for and treating a common vitamin deficiency,” says registered nurse Sally Pacholok , author of “Could It Be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses” ( www.b12awareness.org ).
“A pregnant mom can pass along her vitamin B12 deficiency to her baby, and this can cause developmental delay and brain injury to the growing fetus,” Pacholok says.
“If B12 deficiency is untreated or not recognized in infancy, the child easily can be diagnosed on the autism spectrum,” she says. “Why? Because the signs and symptoms of B12 deficiency in children are identical to ‘autistic’ symptoms.”
Risk of brain injury grows as time untreated passes, especially in those moms who breast feed. In addition, even before birth these babies are at risk of neural tube defects and premature birth, among a host of other problems.
One problem in identifying the deficiency in pregnant moms is that they’re prescribed vitamins that include high-doses of folic acid. That masks the traditional signs of B12 deficiency in the blood count, Pacholok explains.
“We can do something about the growing number of children with autism, and we can also prevent countless disabilities simply by testing for B12 in pregnant, nursing mothers, symptomatic children, or any child diagnosed on the autism spectrum” she says.
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