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MMR booster

SallyH

Hello, my 3 year old little boy (T) has recently been diagnosed with autism. He had his MMR jab as planned. I have just been asked to make an appointment for his MMR booster (he has to have it before he starts school next September) A good few years ago it was suggested that there was a link between a child having the MMR and developing austim. This was later discredited and I accepted that, hence why T had the MMR.  However, I am very anxious about T having the MMR booster if there is the slightest chance that it may cause a reaction in T which could make his autism more severe (we are very fortunate that at the moment it is relatively mild). I would really welcome feedback from parents or carers of children with autism who have had the MMR and MMR booster about whether they have noticed any change/deperioration in their child after having the MMR booster. Please don't think that I am being overdramatic about this, but I am just trying to do my research (I fear that medics will just give the 'official party line view') and I just don't want to risk doing anything that could make T's autism worse. I have looked into single injections but the single mumps vaccine is no longer available and so I cannot do this. If I could have done, I certainly would have. Thank you very much, Sally  

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    The official party line is now firmly derived from the scientific evidence. Andrew Wakefield, who fixated on the MMR as the cause of autism, has been struck off as a doctor for fabricating evidence. It is unfortunately possible that he had autistic traits himself and he convinced himself, in a black and white way, that his theory was correct. Just because "A crank is a crank until he is proved right" (Mark Twain) it does not follow that every crank is a genius who will be proved right! It seems to me that there is something in the research that he did on the gastrointestinal issues relating to autism but that MMR wasn't the smoking gun that he thought it was. It seems more likely that early (before 12 months) exposure to anti-biotics does more harm to the GI system (recent Horizon programme on the BBC) and this, in my opinion may be related to some autism. Note the frequent use of "possible", "may", "some" in what I am saying.

    The balance of evidence says that the MMR vaccines do far more good than evil and that a number of children have suffered very severe effects because their mothers were scared off by the MMR theories that have been examined and re-examined and found to be unfounded.