Antibiotics against autism: investigation opened in Paris for "endangering others"
According to the president of SOS Autism, some 5,000 children have been affected by these treatments since 2012. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP
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The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation after being seized by the ANSM, the Medicines Agency, of the case of doctors suspected of making dangerous prescriptions to autistic children as a "treatment", in particular of antibiotics.
The SOS Autism association which launched the alert denounces "unauthorized tests" on thousands of children.
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It was this summer that the Medicines Agency challenged the courts on the prescription to autistic children and "
over long periods
" of "
anti-infectious drugs
", such as antibiotics, as well as "
substances supposed to eliminate the heavy metals in the body
”.
However, "
these drugs have not shown any proof of their effectiveness
" and "
expose these children to risks, in particular during prolonged use
", underlines the ANSM.
"
It's quite simply charlatanism
", takes offense Olivia Cattan, who herself alerted the agency in 2019. The president of the SOS Autism association speaks of the thousands of children concerned and designates around sixty evolving doctors in the wake of the Chronimed association, founded by the controversial Nobel Prize for Medicine, Professor Montagnier.
“
For them,
autism
is an immune-inflammatory disease of infectious origin.
They therefore set up protocols, most often based on antibiotics prescribed over long periods, up to 4 years, parents told me.
But some also add their paw, cortisone, a drug against herpes or against alcoholism
”, says Olivia Cattan.
"
They plead for the freedom to prescribe but these so-called treatments are not the object of any scientific consensus, it amounts to using children as guinea pigs
", she denounces.
The president of SOS Autism quotes in particular tests which would have taken place within a medico-educational institute of Hauts-de-Seine on eight children without any authorization or control of the health authorities.
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