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Monday, November 01, 2010

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Lisa R

I admire that you can have patience with people who are so vitriolic. You're right that they need compassion - but it's hard.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Its very informative and innovative too ..the vaccine-causation theory of autism should known by all coz its really usefull ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVTXSgd2Cg i feel very sad for the kids who suffeering from austim ...Let us pray for all those lovely kids...

Gmthul

How would you address a parent who has 1 child who suffers anaphylactic reactions to vaccines and a 2nd child who experienced proven vaccine-related encephalitis and is still dealing with the consequences (and will be for life)? Do you advocate for exemptions or delayed schedule availability for those families or individuals who have a health-related reason for requiring them? Just curious. Coming from the opposite side to read your opinion.

Chris

Gmthul, of course your children have valid medical contraindications for vaccines.

This also means you must very vigilant that everyone your children come into contact with have been vaccinated. You have the right to request the vaccine status of all of those who come into contact with your children. It would help if you had actual medical documentation (something that you would need for puplic school entry in many states, especially Mississippi and West Virginia).

My son had seizures as an infant, and could not be vaccinated for pertussis. It turned out that at that time there was a pertussis "epidemic" in the county (the numbers are now even higher). Read about that experience by clicking on my name. Fortunately vaccines have changed, and he has outgrown seizures and was given the Tdap when he was 18 years old (it turns out he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction, and if he had a pertussis coughing spasm there is a very real chance of blocking off his mitral valve and sudden cardiac death).

Aparentsprspctv

I am going to suggest an alternate position here.

both sides in this equation think the other side is the ones doing the lying.

personally while i believe vaccines are the likely cause of autism i dont necessarily believe you are lying by fighting against it i just feel that like us you dont have the complete information.

i continue to vaccinate my children but as i posted on my blog when my youngest gets her vaccines we will be going with a full and complete video record of before, during and after periods because the records will be used if her present condition changes.

we are also going to change the times of the vaccinations so that the approx time of life theory cannot be used if it does change.

so while we seriously hope that she does not develop autism we are preparing.

i will not swear to autism being caused by vaccines but genetics only accounts for 2% combined so the other 98% must have a different cause and the likelyhood is that it is environmental of some form. vaccines are the present target and if they are not the cause then you would think the pharmaceuticals would do everything in their power to identify exactly what is to take the pressure off themselves

Chris

i will not swear to autism being caused by vaccines but genetics only accounts for 2% combined .... hen you would think the pharmaceuticals would do everything in their power to identify exactly what is to take the pressure off themselves

Can you please provide a citation for the 2%?

Also, which pharmaceuticals are you referring to? Since the data show vaccines have not casual relationship to autism (see the journal studies list at http://www.immunize.org/journalarticles/conc_aut.asp ), which drugs do you think are the culprits? What research would you propose?

Remember, my son had a history of seizures before any medication. He also suffered seizures while suffering from a now vaccine preventable illness. This in no detracts from your experience, but you do have to understand there are those of us with children who have been adversely impacted by disease.

So you really must look at the whole picture.

Oh, and very good idea to get video before and after.

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