Controversy over vitamin jab for autism

By Rachelle Money

A CONTROVERSIAL vitamin injection claimed to help autistic children recoveris to be promoted in Scotland by its American developer.

Dr James Neubrander, who will discuss the injection at a conference onautism in Edin burgh this week, has a private clinic in New Jersey where he says he has given more than 75,000 shots of methyl cobalamin B12 since May 2002, with, he claims, 94% of children showing improvement.

Methylcobalamin B12 is a type of vitamin B12 produced naturally by bacteriain the colon and then absorbed. Some scientists believe that people withautism are unable to absorb this material.

Neubrander said one injection is given every three days and the effects canbe seen within five weeks. "My kids can lose their diagnosis [as autistic]within a year and a half to two and a half years and be in a normalclassroom where nobody would know they had autism. When they stop the shotsthey regress in the same manner a diabetic who stops taking insulin would regress.

"When we first see these kids they can't talk and now they are totally recovered. This is to the autism world what antibiotics was to the modern world."

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