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help with pre-school booster

spoons78

Hi all, im new to the community forum so i hope im using it correctly! I am having real problems trying to decide whether or not to give my 4 year old son his pre school booster. He has always shown signs of autism since birth really but after his first mmr injections he lost all his speech and stopped eating, and for years has only eaten a handfull of different foods. Now he is at school and he is coming on so well. He is eating hot food for the first time in years, im starting to hold little converations with him, and he isnt half as frustrated as he used to be. I know people do have strong views on this so any advice or eperience with this i would gladly appreciate and take on board. I personally think there is a link, but i also acept the importance of immunisation but there are many people i know with autistic children that have not opted to give the pre school booster, for fear of regression, and also rightly stating that this is merely a "top up" and its highly likely thats its unnecessary anyway. I am changing my mind daily, so please, any help or advice you can give would be most welcomed.

many thanks for reading

liz :)

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  • Agree, with the pharm companies in control of research, there is little hope of getting the truth. 

    It is obvious that MMR does not "cause autism" as in being the single cause of everyone's issues, but given that the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix was taken off the market as it caused narcolepsy, it is not outside the bounds of possibility that it may cause problems for some people. 8% of our DNA comes from viruses (probably best not to google that...)

    My view is that autism is not a single entity, like measles or mumps. It is a clinical picture comprised of many different signs, symptoms and traits, which can be viewed as a spectrum. And therein lies the problem with much autism research. There are probably loads of different factors affecting where someone is on the spectrum, but researchers always lump all autistic people together, from those who need 24/7 nursing care, to a high functioning person with no medical problems and IQ off the scale (which obviously should not be viewed as a problem). So research into single causes of autism will always bring up insignificant results.

    I have had various vaccines and am not totally anti, but parents really ought to be allowed to make their own minds up.

    Temple Grandin has some very good advice on her website, and her book Thinking In Pictures. I trust her opinion way more than any pharm company spin. 


     

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  • Agree, with the pharm companies in control of research, there is little hope of getting the truth. 

    It is obvious that MMR does not "cause autism" as in being the single cause of everyone's issues, but given that the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix was taken off the market as it caused narcolepsy, it is not outside the bounds of possibility that it may cause problems for some people. 8% of our DNA comes from viruses (probably best not to google that...)

    My view is that autism is not a single entity, like measles or mumps. It is a clinical picture comprised of many different signs, symptoms and traits, which can be viewed as a spectrum. And therein lies the problem with much autism research. There are probably loads of different factors affecting where someone is on the spectrum, but researchers always lump all autistic people together, from those who need 24/7 nursing care, to a high functioning person with no medical problems and IQ off the scale (which obviously should not be viewed as a problem). So research into single causes of autism will always bring up insignificant results.

    I have had various vaccines and am not totally anti, but parents really ought to be allowed to make their own minds up.

    Temple Grandin has some very good advice on her website, and her book Thinking In Pictures. I trust her opinion way more than any pharm company spin. 


     

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