[reverett123]

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...b_b_93627.html


"On Tuesday, March 11, a conference call was held between vaccine safety officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several leading experts in vaccine safety research, and executives from America's Health Insurance Plans, (the HMO trade association) to discuss childhood mitochondrial dysfunction and its potential link to autism and vaccines.

It was a sobering event for all concerned, and it could soon become known as the Conference Call heard 'round the world."
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"All thirty children also displayed normal, healthy development until about 18-24 months of age, when they quickly regressed into clinically diagnosed autism (and not merely "features of autism"), following some type of unusual trigger, or stress, placed on their immune system."
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"One theory currently in circulation about what happened to Hannah and other children like her, is an apparent "triple domino effect." According to this hypothesis, it takes three steps and two triggers to get to some types of autism, and it goes like this:

STEP ONE: Child is conceived and born healthy, but with an underlying nuclear DNA genetic susceptibility to mitochondrial dysfunction, inherited from dad.

TRIGGER ONE: An early environmental "adversity" occurs in the womb or during the neonatal period, perhaps caused by prenatal exposure to heavy metals, pollutants, pesticides and medicines. Or, it occurs in early infancy, through environmental toxins, thimerosal exposure, or even the Hepatitis B vaccine "birth dose." This trigger results in:

STEP TWO: Child develops mild, usually asymptomatic mitochondrial dysfunction (though I wonder if the ear infections and eczema so common in these cases might also be symptoms of mito problems).

TRIGGER TWO: Child, now with an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, suffers over-stimulation of the immune system beyond the capacity of his or her metabolic reserves. This stress is either via a viral febrile infection, or from multiple vaccinations, as in the Poling case. This trigger results in:

STEP THREE: Acute illness, seizures, encephalopathy, developmental regression, autism.

Such a scenario might help explain why autism has increased right along with the addition of more vaccines to the national schedule.

And it might help explain why autism rates are not plummeting now that thimerosal levels have been significantly reduced in most childhood vaccines.

It's possible that exposures from the flu shot, and residual mercury left over in other vaccines -- perhaps in synergistic effect with aluminum used as an "adjuvant" to boost the immune response - might "contribute to the toxic mix that causes childhood mitochondrial dysfunction in the first place," one of the doctors said.

But like many hypotheses, this one has competition. Some researchers believe that the modern American diet is largely to blame for an increase in the number of children whose underlying mitochondrial dysfunction is "triggered" into autism by febrile infections.

The answer, they hypothesize, is corn.

The American diet has become extraordinarily dependent on corn oil and corn syrup used in processing, these experts contend. They say that corn oil and syrup are inflammatory, whereas fish oil is anti-inflammatory. Could our diet be a factor in making this mutated gene become more pathogenic? It's a biochemical defect that leads to biochemical disease, supporters of this theory say: The gene itself becomes more of a problem."

[chasmo]

our son Daniel is a high-functiioning Asbergers syndrome child.
He spent 8 days in neonatal intensive care after birth due to his lungs not being developed. He also had a reaction to his DPT immunization. HE had breathing issues with the shot. WE only gave him the "DT" portion of the booster from there on.
Very little is known about these mis-adventures, but suffice to say, be very circumspect before giiving your child immunizations, especially if they had a history of problems relating to early problems or illnesses.

Charlie

[K.Ibsen]

We also have a high-functioning Asbergers Syndrome child. He was very normal at birth. At about two years, he became pretty sick with something. At the age of three, he was diagnosed. I've always felt that I was somehow to blame. I recall that I let him and his older brother out to play in the rain (warm south Texas rain). He became sick afterwards and was never the same again. I rarely speak of the pain and guilt I feel.

[paula_w]

oH my gosh....please let that go. I'm pretty sure being in the rain doesn't give you autism. Does being in the rain even make you sick at all? I have been told that only germs can make you sick with colds, fever, etc. in the first place. That's too much guilt to carry around. Please release yourself from that sadness.

paula

[reverett123]

At the ages you mention, the body's defenses are still forming and actually benefit from reasonable challenge. An example is that a child raised in an overly "clean" home has a weaker immune system because he never encounters antigen triggering bacteria. Chronic stresssors tear down the body but acute ones make it stronger. Stop blaming yourself and you can do more to help your kid.

BTW, my wife is a high end asberger and I am often surprised at the overlap with my PD. The startle reflex, for example. Sensory overload. Stress reactions.

Originally Posted by K.Ibsen

We also have a high-functioning Asbergers Syndrome child. He was very normal at birth. At about two years, he became pretty sick with something. At the age of three, he was diagnosed. I've always felt that I was somehow to blame. I recall that I let him and his older brother out to play in the rain (warm south Texas rain). He became sick afterwards and was never the same again. I rarely speak of the pain and guilt I feel.

[lindylanka]

I'm another one with a child who has autistic spectrum issues, v high functioning, but with severe dysgraphia and dyspraxia, and suspected asperger's. I know that bringing him up has been the biggest help that I have had in dealing with pd. I can't help laughing at myself sometimes - all those years of training him how NOT to spill drinks, and now I do it all the time! But that is just the merest of issues, and I can see a lot more, to the point where I wondered how I appeared when I was small, and whether this is something he inherited, as I did from my grandmother. In short I have a lot of fear that he will develop what I have in later years. And I hope with all my heart that I am wrong. He also was very normal until 2 or so when he had several immunisation jabs, when he had a high fever and lost something, he was different, and those differences are still there. I felt guilty too, but don't dwell on it as He could not be a nicer person, and I feel blessed by having him.

Thanks for posting about this, it has allowed me to express something that I have not spoken of to anyone.

Lindy

[K.Ibsen]

Paula, there's more to the story, but I'm not going to talk about it.

[paula_w]

OK, I can understand that.

paula

[Stitcher]

I have a six year old grandson who is Autistic. He has a high IQ, just like his two siblings. He has had intervention since age 2-1/2, once his parents got a grip and got moving on the issue...was not easy...denial is easy, acceptance is hard.

He does not have sensory issues such as too much stimulation, but not when it come to being touched and hugged. We are fortunate that he enjoys sitting on laps and being cuddled. I take him to OT and ST every Thursday morning, and then on to regular Kindergarten. He is in an autistic classroom environment most of the day, but he does attend a regular K-class for a short time each day. He has a TSS who meets him at the bus at school and stays until he is on the bus as the end of the day (teacher of special services). I am sure this TSS will be with him until he graduates from high school.

His weekly schedule is hard on the adults in his life, but each hour of his week is extremely important to his future and we all acknowledge this. Pennsylvania has awesome programs and is probably one of the best states for an autistic person to live in. Thursday is a 55 miles trip for me. Then there are the non-school bus pickup, not to mention the many appointments mom and dad have to attend for services to continue and for psych evaluations quarterly.

Monday...school then a TSS from 4pm to 5:30pm at home (Teacher of Special Services)
Tuesday...school then on to Kid's Club from 4pm to 7pm (a special program for disabled children run by the County/State)
Wednesday...repeat of Tuesday
Thursday...school only
Friday...repeat of Monday

Of course...the "training" never stops as anyone with an autistic child knows, or who works with these children knows. It goes on at home from the time he rises from bed until he goes to sleep at hnight. It goes on over holidays and summer. When there is a school holiday, his TSS is in the home that day. Over the school breaks (Spring break, etc.) and over the summer, a TSS is in the home Mon thru Fri. Stopping for a week means six steps back and then returning to the regimen means two steps forward and a struggle to regain what was lost over that week of not intervention.

I think the hardest non-autism thing we all had to adjust to is that we would always have a non-family person in the home...forever. Can't sit around in PJs all day!! But then our TSSs do become a part of the family, we get to know them as much as they get to know us.

My son in law and I talked about this Sunday...How about formula and baby food. Anyone who thinks either of these are "pure" is crazy. Nothing in our world is pure, I don't care where it was grown.

Our environment is the cause of too many health issues. If only someone, say researchers and government, would focus of our environment and if one day our governments and companies would take responsibility for these issues maybe a couple of generations from now, the world would be a healthier place to live.

When Oliver "Ollie" was dxd at age two, the incidence of Autism was like 1 in 1,100. Now it is like 1 in 150 for both gender, but the incidence in boys is far greater than 1 in 150...more like 1 in 100.

Our take on the cause: NOT from vaccinations!! Maybe environmental, Maybe something passed on from the mother which may or may not be environmental. Something that is a trigger, but not vaccinations.

We feel that if it had been from vaccinations then the rise would have begun many decades ago, not just in the past few years.

[olsen]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...cinations.aspx

By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.


"In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school. Today they will receive over 36 injections. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Center for Disease Control assured parents that it was safe to not only give these vaccines, but that they could be given at one time with complete safety...
In the early 1980s, the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000 births. By 2005, the incidence had leaped to 1 in 250 births, and today it is 1 in 150 births and still climbing..."



by Dr. Mercola

"...The U.S. government recently came to the unprecedented conclusion that childhood vaccines did contribute to the onset of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."

Poling was one of three test cases alleging the vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism. So even though federal officials keep insisting there is no link between autism and vaccines, this concession says otherwise, and may influence the outcome of the remaining 4,900 cases pending review by the “Vaccine Court.”

The fact that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out more than $1.5 billion to families and children who have been injured or killed by vaccines also speaks volumes about the supposed “safety” record of vaccines…"