Abstract
40 infantile autistic patients were studied. They ranged from 6 years to 15 years of age at entry. 22 were cases of classical infantile autism; whereas 18 lacked one or more clinical defects associated with infantile autism (“pseudoautism”). Of the 22 with classic autism, 21 responded to transfer factor (TF) treatment by gaining at least 2 points in symptoms severity score average (SSSA); and 10 became normal in that they were main-streamed in school and clinical characteristics were fully normalized. Of the 18 remaining, 4 responded to TF, some to other therapies. After cessation of TF therapy, 5 in the autistic group and 3 of the pseudo-autistic group regressed, but they did not drop as low as baseline levels.
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Abbreviations
- AD:
-
Alzheimer’s Disease
- CFIDS:
-
chronic fatigue immune dysregulation syndrome
- DLE:
-
dialysable leucocyte extract
- DLyE:
-
dialysable lymphocyte extract
- PAS:
-
pseudo-autistic syndrome
- SSSA:
-
symptoms severity score average
- TF:
-
transfer factor
- TA:
-
true autistic
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Fudenberg, H.H. Dialysable lymphocyte extract (DLyE) in infantile onset autism: A pilot study. Biotherapy 9, 143–147 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02628672
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