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Kennedy Kreiger Study confirms Fever Effect
A study by the Kennedy Kreiger Institute at Johns Hopkins confirms the existence of the widely reported “fever effect”, where autism symptoms improve when a child has a fever. My son’s fever effect was pronounced and was only matched when he was bitten by chiggers (see “Clues” section of this site). Fever is the result of an infection, which prompts an immune response. Chiggers also elicit a powerful immune response. Both the infection and the residual material left by the chiggers become legitimate targets for the immune system, which would otherwise be involved in overproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and an autoimmune response, possibly directed and the brain and nervous system. You can read about the study at www.npr.org.
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