• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    What can it hurt? They’ve been used for many years for many treatments, Europe is way ahead of USA. I know multiple people being treated with stem cells, they are not approved by FDA but look to Europe.

    • Exatron@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      You mean other than how RFK Jr is a crackpot and autism isn’t something that needs to be treated?

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        autism isn’t something that needs to be treated?

        Tell that to parents with severely impacted non-verbal children that will need expensive full-time care for an entire human lifespan.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      Risks of stem cell treatment for autism include site infection, meningitis, tumors in brain or at injection site, fever, seizure, anaphylaxis, and death

      Documented harms (all of those side effects are documented in this context) and so far at best inconclusive evidence based on small studies of questionable quality

      Obviously there is a need to explore novel treatments in some areas but don’t endorse using autistic children to play pincushion because you’re not aware of the very real, documented, and potentially dire risks