Low blood glucose levels on blood tests is something I have seen from time to time in children on the Autism spectrum. If you see that your child gets moody throughout the day when they don’t eat frequently, they may have reactive hypoglycemia or low blood sugar issues.

But really the focus should be cutting back sugar, balancing proteins, balancing carbohydrates, balancing fats and balancing simple and complex sugars.

Treatment of Low Blood Sugar for Autism

Although the history of autism likely initiated well during a century ago, autism wasn’t formerly recognized as its own condition, it was originally confused provided another mental disorder, schizophrenia. History Autism

• 1943 – Leo Kanner – an Austrian-American child psychologist was the first to recognize autism as an independent mental disorder. If the name Asperger looks familiar, this is because he plays a major role in the history of autism in regards to Asperger Syndrome, now recognized as a specific type of high functioning autism.

• 1967 – Bruno Bettelheim – An Austrian-American child psychologist and writer wrote The Empty Fortress: Infantile autism and the birth of the self.

• 1970’s – Autism knowledge and research spread to Sweden.

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