Chicago woman

From her home base in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, Chicago native Kerri Rivera counsels parents of children with autism on a "miracle treatment" that she says can rid their children of the curse of the dreaded disease.

Critics say her treatments, which involve the chemical chlorine dioxide, are tantamount to poisoning children, but Rivera refers to those critics as "haters" and "trolls." She insists the protocol has removed more than 170 children from the autism spectrum.

"If, in fact, chlorine dioxide were this toxic poisonous bleach, there would be a sea of dead children, " Rivera told NBC5 Investigates. "How can this be bad if people are healing and nobody's dying?"

Medical professionals say the treatment hardly heals, but rather makes sick children even sicker, with no demonstrable benefits.

"Right now there is no cure for autism, " Dr. Sharon Hirsch, the section chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago Hospitals. "There is nothing we can do at this time to get rid of autism. It's a horrible disorder."

Rivera's solution - "CD, " as she calls it - is part of a larger protocol that includes a strict diet and advisories for parents to watch for the purging of "parasites" from their children.

The chlorine dioxide solution is also known as MMS for "Miracle Mineral Solution, " as Rivera's colleague Jim Humble, founder of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, calls it. In online videos, Humble claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy. He has insisted in his videos that MMS cures ailments ranging from malaria to cancer.

Rivera's and Humble's critics say the MMS, or "CD" solution, actually becomes bleach and should not be ingested by children. They also say it has no medicinal benefit.

"It's an industrial chemical, " said Dr. Karl Scheidt, director of the Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery at Northwestern University. "I would say it would be incredibly dangerous for anyone to ingest this, much less a child."

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