Probiotics to Ease Gut Problems in Autistic Young
 (NOVIS, 5/5/04)

Professor Glenn Gibson of the University of Reading in the UK, and team, found that the stool samples taken from 150 autistic children in the US contained a high prevalence of the harmful bacteria, clostridia. In addition, the gut flora of 60 British autistic children showed high clostridia levels, which the subjects’ non-autistic siblings did not have. These findings suggest a link between autism and toxin-producing gut bacteria, leading the researchers to speculate that probiotics, the so-called “good bacteria, may help autistic children by protecting them from neurotoxic intestinal microorganisms.