Autism Professor Needs Help: Looking for Pregnant Women After Having an ASD Child

[JaneS]

The Vitamin D Council has been collecting information about using vitamin D to treat and prevent ASD. More info on their website.

Autism Professor Needs Help

Professor Gene Stubbs of the University of Oregon needs help with his study about vitamin D and autism. He is testing the theory that a mother with one child with autism will not have another if the mother takes vitamin D during her pregnancy. Women no longer need to come to the University of Oregon but can participate at a distance. Professor Stubbs writes:

"Can anyone assist us in recruiting mothers who already have children with autism and the mother is pregnant again before her third trimester? We are giving the mothers 5000 IU D3/day. So far every mother who has delivered has delivered within 1 week or on the date of expected delivery, and the babies are well within normal birth weights. They have not progressed far enough in age for us to screen for autism, but so far, the babies are interactive, have eye contact, are vocal etc..

However, we need more research families to participate. We have recruited other doctors to help us recruit and we have recruited doctors on the Vitamin D Council sites to help us recruit. We still need more families to participate to make our results significant. The families no longer have to come to our site to participate. If you know of any families who potentially might be eligible for our research, please give them my research assistant's phone number, 503-351-9255."

Thank you,

John Cannell, MD

The Vitamin D Council
www.vitaminDCouncil.org

1241 Johnson Ave., #134

San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

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[mamafish9]

I'm not discouraging people from calling. But some basic information in this listing is wrong. There is no Gene Stubbs at the University of Oregon (which is here in my town). There is a Dr. Gene Stubbs in Portland, who used to be associated with Oregon Health Sciences University as a child psychiatrist specializing in autism. He's an "associate professor emeritus" now (university-speak for retired). So I can't find any evidence this research is associated with a university. This request is all over the internet. I called the number given, and all I'm getting is voicemail. This may well be a legitimate study, and I'm all for investigating potential ways to prevent autism. Just encouraging people to be careful and do their homework.

[Kristine233]

Prevent Autism? How about prevent evolution, prevent progression, prevent individuality? It's basically all the same IMO. And just because a child is verbal and can hold a bit of eye contact doesn't mean they don't have Autism.

Oh, I'm sure there will be just as many people out there saying taking supplements will increase Autism. You can find people and studies to support just about anything. And just because you have one child with autism doesn't mean you'll have another. I have 2 NT children and an ASD child sandwhiched in between.

Just sounds like another way to blame the mom to me and push personal agenda.

/end rant