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Stem Cell treatment

gemma123
over 7 years ago

Hi there,

I have a 12 year old girl diagnosed with Aspergers at age of 3. She is coping well academically, but struggling with social interaction and friendship terribly! We tried all sorts of supports but nothing seemed working. We are debating if to try a course of stem cell treatment. It's such an innovative, invasive and expensive treatment, just wondering if anybody out there have ever experienced or knew somebody had such treatment! There are quite a few centres in Europe. They charge  between $10000 to $20000. We are not sure if they are as good as they claimed to be. Any thoughts/ advices would be greatly appreciately!

Thank you very much!

Gemma

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  • over 7 years ago

    Hi Gemma

    Stem cell treatments for ASD are a scam, they are a scheme designed to separate desperate parents from their hard earned cash, they are roughly as effective as burning some herbs and a small straw doll whilst dancing around in a circle and chanting to Lord Vader for salvation.

    ASD is caused by genetics (it’s proven to be totally non-environmental, despite the idiot MMR doctor), your child’s brain is made of approximately one hundred billion brain cells, most of which will already be formed in a 12-year-old, some of which are still forming but can’t fundamentally be changed short of major neurosurgery.

    I’m not going to go into how stem cells function, that information is available all over the internet but if you want start with Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell) however to really understand it you may well need a reasonable understanding of molecular biology.

    There are medical applications for stem cells, there are no approved stem cell treatments for ASD, no working stem cell treatments for ASD and at the moment it looks highly unlikely that there is even a theoretical basis for stem cell treatment of ASD.

    You have to accept that your daughter with her ASD will never be a hugely social person, that’s part of who she is, it is in every cell of her body, every neuro and synapse of her mind and that’s impossible to change, however the best thing you can do is to help her (and if that requires therapists then that £20,000 will come in far more useful) understand herself and create coping mechanisms and ways to deal with life. She won’t ever be normal, none of us with ASD will be, but she can be herself, she can be your daughter, she can have a happy and content life but the key to that is for her to be able to accept who she is and learn how to deal with the downsides of her ASD whilst maximising its upsides.

    There are many things that can be done to help her, giving £20,000 away to charlatans and letting them inject her with unknown and medically and ethically unsound substances isn’t one of them.

    Matt

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Deleted user

    Stem Cell therapy in Duke University trial shows promise and has proved to improve socialisation abilities in people with ASD. The Duke University trial demonstrated this. There will be a cure for ASD in the future and plus there are no positives of having ASD.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to NAS50351

    I think alot of people may disagree with the last part of your statement 

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