Oh boy, another all-nighter. I gave up at 1am and took her downstairs so the rest of the house could sleep. She went around giggling and thumping the piano keys (luckily at the opposite end of the house to all the bedrooms).
I could be a productive person... In another life I was. This illness has taken not just one potential worker out of the system, but a whole family.
When is the government going to ask itself whether the cost of ignorance is finally getting too high? Gene research is blinkered research. Someone has to remove the blindfold to look for the causes of autism.
I've often wondered whether the heads of the big chemical and pharmaceutical corporations eat organic food? And do their children receive the Hep B jab that contains mercury, or the version that doesn't?
If you were a doctor, and you could give your child one of two jabs, the only difference being whether it contains mercury or a different adjuvant, what would you do?
Something causes autism!
You might find this post of use in your search for causes/treatment: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/autism_and_the_search_for_simp.php
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can see, the only Australian vaccine that contains any quantity of mercury is the H1N1 ("swine flu") vaccine, and that was removed last year. Mercury does not appear to be used any longer as a preservative in children's vaccines (http://www.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/handbook-appendix5).
Mercury is, of course, still present in some fish-based foods, due to pollutants.
Hope this is helpful to you, and that in our lifetime we can see effective treatments of the disorder. *hugs* to you and your family.
Interesting, Infoaddict, but there are some inaccuracies in the source material. Hope you don't mind if I correct them.
ReplyDeleteThe newborn Hepatitis B vaccine that my daughter received contained mercury at a dose over a hundred times higher than that okayed by the US FDA for a daily exposure in an adult. It's true (or seems true anecdotally) that some versions of the Hep B newborn jab do not contain mercury (my sister's paediatrician assured her the jab he used didn't), but there's no doubt my daughter's did; indeed the hospital brochure I was given at the time confirmed that it had mercury, arguing that the Danish study proved it to be safe. Researching later I easily found vaccinal batch information confirming the heavy metal inclusion.
Secondly I would say it's very hard to rule mercury out of any of the current wave of flu jabs, simply because mercury-free flu vaccines are produced in smaller numbers. The vaccine manufacturers, according to Robert F Kennedy Jr, under-produce mercury free flu jabs to satisfy loose recommendations and supposedly 'prove' they're on the case of removing Thimerosal.
I do take your point about fish; it seems a shame that humans have existed for thousands of years on high-fish diets only to exclude most of it now, but certainly additional loads of any heavy metal, including naturally occurring mercury in the diet, can't be good for those already injured by mercury.
Thanks for your friendly and caring comment, and I'm very grateful to accept those hugs!