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Autism and the Gut

Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that is generally manifested in the first 3 years of life and characterized by dysfunction in social interaction and communication.1 Any person whose social skills have been severely deficient since early childhood, who started to talk late, or whose communicative use of language is inadequate and who engages in restricted repetitive and stereotypic behaviors meets the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder.1 There are 5 classifications of PDDs,1 including: