I think it’s important too note the integral point that this father is involved in a fierce custody battle, as reported by other news reports, and his wife and mother of the child agreed to the treatments. This fact is glaringly omitted in the above article summary. I hope it was simply a careless mistake and not indicative of purposeful omission to support a viewpoint on the subject matter of the lawsuit.

My daughter is a patient of Dr. Usman’s and I have nothing but praise and sincere appreciation for the care and medical treatment we have received. Megan, who just turned 17 this week, regressed after a series of vaccines as a toddler. She lost language, began to withdraw and then started to exhibit symptoms of autism, loss of eye contact, repetitive movements, and isolation. More importantly, she began to have one illness after another, have pain and GI distress for years. Dr. Usman was the only doctor who actually helped my daughter these recent years, after numerous office visits to pediatricians, a neurologist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and so as they offered nothing but psychoactive medications or worse, institutionalization.

My daughter had intense GI pain and an inflammatory response due to food allergies, chronic bacterial infections, mitochondrial dysfunction, originating from a huge body burden of toxic metals and an impaired immune system. Megan’s existence has changed from one of head banging, biting, lashing out at others to a new, pain-free life filled with joy, laughter, and an increased ability to learn at school, where she has been promoted from the more severe, 1:1 classroom to an independent tract, where she is learning how to type on the computer.

An angry divorced father is not a reason for this attack. Dr. Usman is a doctor of integrity and medical hope for an epidemic of children who on paper, have a list of behaviors though in reality, they are medically ill and have been abandoned by the American Academy of Pediatrics and most standard physicians. Instead of believing this angry father and his very suspicious legal team it is time for the Tribune and the media to believe us, the parents, who have witnessed first the regression of our children and now the healing that only the Defeat Autism Now (DAN) doctors are providing.