Fever and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Greetings. Recently, there has been exposure in the media world about children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how they react differently to a fever when ill. Studies have shown that there is improvement in their cognitive abilities and behaviors when affected with a fever. Normally, children with autism spectrum disorder have poor connections between synapses in their brains. This can lead to limited verbal and non-verbal communication skills and difficulties interacting with others in social situations. Also, children may have unusual repetitive behaviors and their cognitive skills could be severely impacted, or heightened.

Studies all over the world are being conducted on these new findings. Reports from scientific researchers have found out that the fever can stimulate changes in the brain at a cellular level. This somehow calms a child with autism spectrum disorder. This is a global issue, with one in every 150 children impacted with autism. Males are four times more likely than females to get diagnosed with autism.

Ms. C