14-year-old autistic boy says first full sentence after using century-old drug
The boy also could also maitain eye-contact and has developed better social skills
There is a constant effort being made to better the chances of curing diseases by finding the most accurate cures for them. Doctors have may have just found the cure for autism after they were able to help a teenager speak a whole sentence recently and it is going to help many people in the near future.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, the researchers at the University of California carried out the study on a six-year-old child and a 14-year-old and the effects were astounding. They used a sleeping sickness drug called suramin, a drug developed by German scientists in 1916. One dose of the drug had amazing results because the children were able to say their first full sentence which they could never do before. Administration of the drug made the 14-year-old make eye-contact which was a first.
Interestingly, the drug also helped him be more social and willing to play a game of hide-and-seek with his 16-year-old brother. He also started making new sounds and looking for his dad which wasn’t the case before. The new development has given a major breakthrough in the attempt to get a cure for autism and for other studies related to the condition.