Why not simply treat all children with ASD who have GI symptoms the same and bypass the need for diagnostic testing?
It’s poor medical practice to empirically treat conditions that have not been properly diagnosed. This is especially true for treatments involving medications with potentially unpleasant or dangerous side effects, and for conditions in which empiric treatment would obscure the validity of subsequent proper diagnostic tests.
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