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Dietary and micronutrient treatments for children with neurodevelopment disorders
This 2018 paper discusses the increasingly popular use of dietary and nutritional treatments in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Since the safety and effectiveness of such therapies have not been confirmed yet, this article reviews the current evidence. Treatments such as the few foods diet, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), probiotic treatments, and broad-spectrum micronutrients were found to be promising. Gluten-free and additive-free diets showed inconclusive or inconsistent results. Moreover, the sugar-free diet did not show much evidence for its effectiveness. Thus, there were strong cases for the potential application of some dietary and nutritional approaches in neurodevelopmental disorders, including reduction of food dyes and supplementing with essential fatty acids and broad-spectrum micronutrients. [NPID: attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, ASD, autism, autism spectrum disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, micronutrients, fatty acids, PUFA, few foods diet, diet, probiotics, gluten, gluten-free diet, additive-free diet]
Year: 2018
