Autism: case study
The case:
Ned is a 4 year old boy referred to Rocco by his integrative GP. This case illustrates the use of integrative medicine and nutrition in the management of Ned.
Rocco reviews the evidence for the role of inflammation and a disturbed gastrointestinal microbiome in children with autism spectrum disorder.
He describes the four most important areas of treatment within the integrative biomedical model:
- Reducing the ‘inflammatory’ load to threshold
- Helping the gut heal
- Optimising nutrient intake and uptake
- Optimising the child’s ability to effectively eliminate waste (bowels, liver, kidney, skin)
Rocco explains how he uses results from blood biochemistry, organic acid testing and dietary assessment in his management of Ned.
Ned continues to make major improvements in his health including in the following areas: sleep, mood, socialisation, physical and digestion.
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About the Presenter
Rocco Di Vincenzo, BSc MND PGrad Dip. App. Sci P.Grad Dip. Bot. Med. APD
Rocco has a strong integrative functional nutritional and environmental medicine focus in his private practice and has formal qualifications in this area. Rocco’s focus is on multidisciplinary, holistic, individually tailored, patient-centred nutrition intervention programs and the justifiable, evidence-based, systematic, strategic, goal-oriented use of pharmaceutical grade, practitioner only nutritional supplements to work in conjunction with GP/Specialist prescribed pharmaceuticals as a treatment adjunct in helping treat the cause of disease and alleviation of patient symptomatology. Rocco has a special interest in addressing gastrointestinal and liver dysfunction and disorders (including NASH/NAFLD), neurological disorders such as depression/anxiety, neuropsychiatric disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), autoimmune disorders and metabolic syndrome.
He worked as a Community Senior Dietitian for over a decade and was the Swinburne University Hospital Chief Dietitian, the first Integrative Hospital in the Southern Hemisphere. Rocco has completed a Bachelor of Science (Monash University), a Masters in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Deakin University), a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine at the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine (GSIM - Swinburne University) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Botanical Medicine at Newcastle University. As a result of his training and experience, Rocco is a strong advocate of community development and health promotion principles recognising that failure to invest in social infrastructure to help build healthy communities significantly encourages disease development and progression.
Rocco has a strong social and philanthropic sense and has committed to pro bono consultations for those in need, particularly children in local communities that do not have the means to be able to access evidence-based complementary healthcare assistance.
As a result of his expertise and interests, Rocco appears on radio, lectures to health professionals and the public on a wide variety of topics involving nutrition and frequently writes articles for both scientific journals and health oriented magazines.
Rocco established the DAA Integrative Functional Nutritional and Environmental Discussion Group who support and guide interested Dietitians in this emerging area of nutritional medicine
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