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MMR @ 3years, safe for my autistic son???

Hayley S

Hi all. Just wana get some opinions on the MMR vaccine.

My son had his first dose at 12months old and I noticed a change in his behaviour straight away. He had started saying 'choo choo' (he loves Thomas the tank), clapping and doing the stars with his hands to 'twinkle twinkle'. Soon after his dose of MMR he stopped all that.

He will be 3years old in December and has only recently started to say 'choo choo' again and a few other words such as cat. he has come on so much which has taken a lot of work from myself, my husband, our families, speech thearpy and speech groups.

I'm frightened that if he has the 2nd dose of MMR it will stop all he's learnt and send him back to the beginning!! 

any feesback or thoughts or suggestions on this would be very much appreciated. I've looked into having the vaccinations done in 3 separate injections... Any thoughts on that either? 

Thanks you. Hayley xxx

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  • There is NO connection whatsoever between the MMR vaccine and Autism.  

    Andrew Wakefield (formerly Dr, but he has since been struck off the UK medical register, is no longer allowed to practice as a Dr of Medicine in the UK, and has since fled to the USA) and his so called "MMR causes Autism" study have been discredited both in the UK and internationally.  

    (The scare was exaggarated by the likes of the Daily Mail, which are just as much to blame, if not more so, than Andrew Wakefield and his flawed and dodgy research!  They asked the Tony and Cherie Blair whether their son, Leo, had been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine.  When no answer was given, and rightly so because it was a family matter and none of the DM's business, the Daily Mail began a witch hunt against the MMR vaccine.)

    Two good articles on the Wakefield scandal can be found on Dr Ben Goldacre's website - 

    www.badscience.net/.../

    www.badscience.net/.../

    The most likely cause of Autism are genetic, faulty genes, and hireditary causes, etc, although research is still ongoing.  But there is NO connection whatsoever between MMR and Autism.  

    The main reason why rates of Autism diagnosises have increased in the last 15 plus years is because of greater awareness of the condition, including how it affects people in varying severities.  This greater awareness was helped in part by the publication in English of Dr Hans Asperger's 1940s studies into high functioning autism (aka Asperger Syndrome).  

    * * * * 

    Vaccine scares are nothing new; in the 1950s approx, there was a vaccine scare against the Polio vaccine.  Now in the 21st century, Polio is almost unheard of in the UK; thanks to vaccination.  Smallpox has been erradicated thanks to vaccination.  HPV, the strain of virus that causes Cervical Cancer, can now be fought with a vaccine, if given to teenage girls.  The only reason why Measles rates have been soaring in recent years is because of the Andrew Wakefield's bogus MMR scare!  

    Vaccines have been saving lives and improving public health. 

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  • There is NO connection whatsoever between the MMR vaccine and Autism.  

    Andrew Wakefield (formerly Dr, but he has since been struck off the UK medical register, is no longer allowed to practice as a Dr of Medicine in the UK, and has since fled to the USA) and his so called "MMR causes Autism" study have been discredited both in the UK and internationally.  

    (The scare was exaggarated by the likes of the Daily Mail, which are just as much to blame, if not more so, than Andrew Wakefield and his flawed and dodgy research!  They asked the Tony and Cherie Blair whether their son, Leo, had been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine.  When no answer was given, and rightly so because it was a family matter and none of the DM's business, the Daily Mail began a witch hunt against the MMR vaccine.)

    Two good articles on the Wakefield scandal can be found on Dr Ben Goldacre's website - 

    www.badscience.net/.../

    www.badscience.net/.../

    The most likely cause of Autism are genetic, faulty genes, and hireditary causes, etc, although research is still ongoing.  But there is NO connection whatsoever between MMR and Autism.  

    The main reason why rates of Autism diagnosises have increased in the last 15 plus years is because of greater awareness of the condition, including how it affects people in varying severities.  This greater awareness was helped in part by the publication in English of Dr Hans Asperger's 1940s studies into high functioning autism (aka Asperger Syndrome).  

    * * * * 

    Vaccine scares are nothing new; in the 1950s approx, there was a vaccine scare against the Polio vaccine.  Now in the 21st century, Polio is almost unheard of in the UK; thanks to vaccination.  Smallpox has been erradicated thanks to vaccination.  HPV, the strain of virus that causes Cervical Cancer, can now be fought with a vaccine, if given to teenage girls.  The only reason why Measles rates have been soaring in recent years is because of the Andrew Wakefield's bogus MMR scare!  

    Vaccines have been saving lives and improving public health. 

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