Doctors warn over natural therapies after autistic boy left severely ill

Police investigated naturopath after mixtures left four-year-old vomiting and constipated for three weeks with dangerously high levels of calcium in his bloodDoctors from Barts hospital have warned of the dangers of alternative medicines after a four-year-old autistic boy was admitted to hospital suffering adverse effects from a cocktail of supplements.The child, who was not named in a report of the incident, had been vomiting and constipated for three weeks and also lost 3kg in weight before he was taken to accident and emergency and diagnosed with severe hypercalcaemia – or very high calcium levels in his blood.Continue reading...
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