Is the rise in autism just due to a medical label?
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In reading quite a bit on autism lately, the data collector in me sensed something I see quite often in medicine: are diseases and conditions really increasing in rate, or are more being properly diagnosed with certain ailments?Take autism, for example. The CDC set off quite a firestorm this year by stating that 1 in 150 kids is born with autism. As always, many parents jumped to conclusions and thought something in the environment (food, water, air, vaccines) was to blame.
What is the reason for this increase? Was a change in measurement methods or better patterns and definitions of diagnosis the reason for an "uptick" in autism cases? If something comes out of relative nowhere and "grows at a substantial rate," it should always be suspect. Well, I hope.
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kerrie 5-28-2008 @ 8:07PM
GRRRRRRRRRR!!!
This debate sets my teeth on edge.Sure, Doctors are better at diagnosis of ASD now. That's because they see so many now!
The CDC in USA, UK dept of Health ( and an Aussie doctor, commissioned to do the study) have all found autism rates at approx 1/150. Up from 1/2500 about 20 years ago.
That's an epidemic folks!
Autism follows the "disease model" .Ie not all kids get it (although exposed to the same pathogen/s) and not all affected kids got it from the same pathogenic source.
It's a no brainer really....................
It is NOT ONLY vaccines but they sure as hell do NOT help a kid with a compromised immune sytem and toxic levels of mercury (check out levels of PCBs, Mercury, lead, PVCs, Polystyrenes, dioxins etc etc in tests on umbilical cord blood of babies born this century, if in doubt) .
Some kids are better at handling toxins (genetically have more Metallathionein and less compromised gut flora) and some autistic kids have Retts disorder etc-ie not a vaccine injury.
However, the current epidemic is MOSTLY due to an ever increasing vaccine schedule.
Shots in the dark, chock full of Mercury (STILL in mandated flu shots and in "older shelf life" vaccines and only now disappearing from general vaccines), aluminium, phenols, formaldehyde, antifreeze, sheep, chicken, monkey and other DNA material (injection is how "gene therapy" is administered , by the way), "wild viruses" from the "host animal" (such as SV40- a known cancer causing virus) and so on.
Dr Archie Kalakerinos found Aboriginal infant deaths went from 1 in 2 (the name of his book) to "normal" levels simply by giving them Vit A before vaccination and ensuring they were not sick at the time.
I won't even mention the dozens of doctors who've researched the dangers of vaccines (absolutely established)versus benefits (doubtful at best as better sanitation, food and quarantine led to drastically falling rates of disease LONG before vaccines were intriduced!Check it out with graphs from 1900 instead of the deceptive graphs taken only from the late 1940s).
Suffice to say- I've gone from "religious (and that's the correct word for this non-scientific based belief system) vaccinator" to not even letting our family dog get a "shot in the dark"
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bob 11-05-2007 @ 4:14PM
the growing rate of this mental copacity is alarming stitistically it is rising due to the host of factors the age of the parent ,her relative health/weight/ food intake/emotional well being during pregnacy/the ablity to addictualy supply oxygen and nutrients to child during pregnacy/.the duration of labor when the cranium is in direct pressure,the method of birth on doctors part did they make the best jugdement reguarding delivery in the case of premature birth where an inkubator was use the amount of oxyen used (oxygen exposeure in adluts causes brian damage).along with the later doctor that mean well misdiagniosis of autisium a generalize and very vaige discriptions with real no real understanding by the doctor there realy know scale or subclassifictions of determining the savarity of idividual cases it seem that the only advancement to this phenomen is a politicaly correct name
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Alex 11-05-2007 @ 6:09PM
I wonder if bob is "brian damaged"
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aanidaani 11-05-2007 @ 7:38PM
When I was a kid everyone had ADD, then when I was a teenager every kid was obese, and now everyone's autistic. Next every kid will grow up depressed or an alcoholic.
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dot 11-08-2007 @ 10:14PM
I believe that the toxic fire retardent chemicals used in crib mattresses are to blame for many illnesses. Do you really want an infant lying on top of these chemicals? Think of how much time a growing child spends on his crib mattress.
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