Jacqueline McCandless
In her book Children with Starving Brains , McCandless invites parents to visualise the choice of trying alternative treatments or the lack of traditional treatments to standing on a pier while watching their child drown.
"You desperately look for help or a life preserver (a physician or treatments that might work). You find a rope tied to the pier (special diets, nutritional supplements, anti-fungal/anti-viral treatments, secretin, chelation for heavy metal toxicity — all of which you have learned are safe and help many of these children). However, authorities warn you not to use it because it has not been proven that the rope is strong enough (the treatment option has not received final approval by ‘authorities' who are waiting for reports of completed scientific studies appearing in peer-reviewed journals). Meanwhile your child is still drowning (exhibiting autistic/ASD symptoms)".
"If you were that parent on the pier you wouldn't wait for the completion of the double-blind clinical trials to assure you that that rope is strong enough. You would pick it up and throw it to your child. The worst that could happen is that the rope would break with your child closer to the pier! In real life, numerous parents, some of whom are physicians, have been finding that removing toxic metals is an effective treatment for their children."
Parents of ASD children cannot afford to wait for approval of the guiding agencies appointed to protect our children's health to try treatment options these agencies consider “alternative medicine”, particularly when the “traditional experts” have nothing better to offer. This is especially true as the parents learn that the very actions they dutifully followed on the recommendations of these authoritative agencies may have been the cause of their child's autism, such as accepting the mandate that their newborn be vaccinated with unsafe levels of ethylmercury via the HepB vaccine.
"For the first time in his life my son is telling us that he loves us as much as we love him. In an untreated autistic child this is unheard of," said Carolyn Yount about her recovering son Chandler. "For pediatricians to tell parents that there is nothing for them to do is wrong. There is so much we can do."
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