title: Iatrogenic autism.
abstract: Autism as we know it, is caused iatrogenically and occurs reportedly one in 88 live birth [3]. Now national survey pegs autism prevalence one in 50 school-age children and the incidence is rising much fast in recent years. The author is hypothesizing idiopathic autism is caused by feeding of infant formula. Majorities of formula in the world are milk based and the molecular weight of the cow's milk is much higher than that of human breast milk. These increased solutes contributes to increased osmolality of the environment of the newborn infant, is directly affecting hemodynamics of normal homeostasis of the developing human brain cells. Formula makers fortified new substances in the process of formula making whenever they found previous unknown substances in the breast milk, for past several decades. When those solid substances were added in the process of formula making to make 20 cal/oz of infant formula, this resulted displacing free water in the formula. When new substances were added, same amount of free water has to be displaced from the formula. That is why we are seeing more autism in recent years, compared to previous several decades.
authors.affiliation: Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States. jyhahr@att.net
authors.forename: Jung Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Hahr
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007225:Infant Food / Q000009:adverse effects