Autism, ADHD run high in children of chemically intolerant mothers
The medical study was published in the July-August 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine . People who are chemically intolerant often have serious reactions to common chemicals and some become too sick to carry out routine functions. Chemical intolerance affects about 10 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. population. Developmental disorders such as autism and attention-deficit disorder affect one in six children in the United States. The study included 282 mothers of children who had ASD and 258 mothers of children diagnosed with ADHD. The control group consisted of 154 mothers whose children had no developmental disorders. The study was based on maternal responses to the Quick Environmental Exposure and Sensitivity Inventory, or QEESI, a 50-question survey used by physicians worldwide to diagnose chemical intolerance. "We are most concerned about how vulnerable the children with ADHD and autism were to environmental exposures," said the...