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Can Stem Cell Treatment Be Helpful For My 8-year-old Son Was Diagnosed With Mild ASD And ADHD?

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Posted on Thu, 19 Sep 2024
Question: My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with mild ASD and ADHD when he was 2.5 yrs old. Can stem cell treatment be helpful for him? Please advice.
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Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (26 hours later)
Brief Answer:
Stem cell therapy is not likely to help

Detailed Answer:
Hi,

We need to understand that ASD and ADHD are coexisting neurodevelopmental disorders which result in a lack of certain developmental skills in a child resulting in abnormal behaviour as an alternate way of communication. So, the primary intervention would be in understanding the current deficits and laying down a long term goal and breaking it down into short term goals and thereafter into smaller tasks and working on each of them using various sorts of therapies like ABA (applied behaviour analysis). Skills cannot be grown through medicines or interventions like stem cell therapies and therefore you should not expect any sort of benefits using stem cell therapy. Usually stem cell therapy centres mandate intensive therapy to be associated with the intervention and it is actually the therapies that generate the improvements that you would note, it is not the actual procedure that is supposed to be helpful. In short, I would not suggest stem cell therapy in a child with ASD and ADHD. Moreover, stem cell therapy is still in the experimental stage without adequate evidence to clearly indicate that it is going to helpful in the given situation.

For more details on how we could help him, you can directly search for me or my organisation and we can help you resolve the issues.

Thanks.
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Can Stem Cell Treatment Be Helpful For My 8-year-old Son Was Diagnosed With Mild ASD And ADHD?

Brief Answer: Stem cell therapy is not likely to help Detailed Answer: Hi, We need to understand that ASD and ADHD are coexisting neurodevelopmental disorders which result in a lack of certain developmental skills in a child resulting in abnormal behaviour as an alternate way of communication. So, the primary intervention would be in understanding the current deficits and laying down a long term goal and breaking it down into short term goals and thereafter into smaller tasks and working on each of them using various sorts of therapies like ABA (applied behaviour analysis). Skills cannot be grown through medicines or interventions like stem cell therapies and therefore you should not expect any sort of benefits using stem cell therapy. Usually stem cell therapy centres mandate intensive therapy to be associated with the intervention and it is actually the therapies that generate the improvements that you would note, it is not the actual procedure that is supposed to be helpful. In short, I would not suggest stem cell therapy in a child with ASD and ADHD. Moreover, stem cell therapy is still in the experimental stage without adequate evidence to clearly indicate that it is going to helpful in the given situation. For more details on how we could help him, you can directly search for me or my organisation and we can help you resolve the issues. Thanks.