Certainly you all know I have a child with autism, how could you not it is in my sig. lol
I have to say that I believe that vac. played a part in as to why my son is the way he is. After years of reading and more reading and more reading I think it is something that is predisposed is some children, perhaps genetic that I feel the combination and amount of vacine's given at one time cause the body to overreact and shut down certain aspects of development in the brain where the nervous system is involved.
My son was fine until his 18 month shots and within 2 months he was not there anymore.
His personality was gone, he would not look at me, did not want to be held, could not talk, did not respond when you talked to him, he started having horrible issues with digestive issues, bowel problems the list goes on and on, he just faded away.....
It was devestating to say the least, I thought I was a horrible mom and I had done something wrong. It is a feeling I will never forget.
If you read about mercury poisoning you will see that there are alot of the same behaviors that occur in Autism so I can see where that is coming from. But if you read more you will also see that Mecury is everywhere not just in the vacine's in question.
There is a term they call Mother's mercury here is a little snippet from an article, but Mercury is in the air we breathe, the fish we eat, the article is eye opening if nothing else...I will stop rambling on here but we do need more resaerch but I do feel that vac. trigger something underlying and if the vac. companies would just do these studies instead of trying to cover their butt our pedi's could possible be able to test a child before giving the vacinations to see if they are at risk for a predisposed condition instead of running them through like cattle and hoping for the best.
I had one doctor tell me that the benefits of the vacinations far out weighs the chance the child may get Autism , he apparentley has not lived with a child who has Autism.
Here is the link I was talking about, the article about MM is center :
Mother's Mercury
Just before leaving office, the Clinton Administration wrote regulations to reduce mercury air pollution. Nobody argues that high levels of mercury contamination can cause birth defects and brain damage.
Although cases of obvious mercury poisoning are rare, levels in rain and surface waters have risen over the decades, and coal-burning power plants are the largest single source of mercury in the air. Pres. Clinton's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a 90 percent reduction in electric-utility emissions by the end of 2007.
Industry objected. Too expensive, it said. "...there is no existing technology that can control mercury emissions across the entire utility industry," it wrote.
The new administration deep-sixed the Clinton cuts and called for a regulatory system to reduce utility mercury by 70 percent -- in 2018.
Like the Administration's earlier proposal to ease regulation on arsenic in drinking water, the back-tracking alarmed physicians, public-health types and environmental activists. The EPA itself had said that each year, mothers' mercury threatened 300,000 American children with brain defects (see "Blood Organic Mercury").
"The fundamental question is, does this protect children as soon as technologically possible? Everything indicates that it doesn't," says Susan West Marmagas, director of environment and health programs at the non-profit Physicians for Social Responsibility. Charging that two EPA reviews had already agreed that power plant controls were feasible, she adds, "We have the technology to produce the 90 percent reduction by 2007, and this proposal does not do it soon enough."
The revised mercury rule also sparked protests from eastern-state senators. The March of Dimes, an organization that fights birth defects, asked the EPA to "withdraw its current proposal on mercury emissions from coal-powered utility units and replace it with a more stringent set of guidelines to be implemented as soon as possible." Industrial mercury, the normally non-political group said, "seriously threatens the health of America's mothers and babies
http://heartspring.net/mercury_poison_symptoms.html
