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Many individuals with autism and their families use complementary health approaches, often along with conventional medical care, to address concerns and improve their health and well-being.
- Approaches such as acupuncture, animal-assisted therapy, arts-based therapies, massage therapy, yoga, and exercise-based therapies may be helpful in treating hypersensitivity, reducing anxiety, and improving social skills and mental health in people with autism.
- Low doses of melatonin may help with sleep problems in people with autism.
- The scientific evidence doesn’t support using the hormone secretin, hyperbaric oxygen, chelation therapies, or antifungal agents to help people with autism, and these approaches may be dangerous.
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