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Arpig -> RE: .mmr 'scare' doctor to face charges. (7/18/2007 3:09:32 PM)
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That was Wakefields research. It is completely wrong. The Lancet has retracted the article.
Actually DomKen, Wakefield's research was only one of many things we researched, like I said we read everything we could lay our hands on...the medical journals, the wild-eyed web sites, and every book in the local library that had anything to do with autism. I fully accept that the appearance of autistic behaviours and the 1st MMR shot may well be coincidence, but at the time the research had not been disproved (or rather withdrawn), but like I said it was the measles in the autistic children's digestive tract that gave us pause for thought.
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As to the special diet if it works for you fine but there is no evidence that it is actually effective either.
The diet does indeed work for us, when My son eats something that has been contaminated his coping abilities drop markedly 2 days later, and he has meltdowns, crushing headaches, a firm reliance on routines becomes iron-clad, and any variations cause him to lose it and to cry and withdraw, he is completely at a loss to interact with the world. It is not only us who see this in him, but he himself realises the difference in his condition (he is very high functioning) and he avoids any unknown foods...if he doesn't know it is safe then he won't eat it. Again it may be that in some autistic children the inability to properly break down casin and gluten may contribute to their difficulties, and that the gluten & casin are not the causes of autistic spectrum disorders, but rather aggrivating factors, which seems to be the case with my son, and the other autistic spectrum children we know who have been put on the diet. We have the evidence of life, it is right in front of us. Remeber, there is no scientific evidence that sugar makes kids hyper, but just ask any parent and they will confirm the fact that it does indeed do so.
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The Dr behind the study did state that the vaccine had not been the source however, since some of the children had not had the vaccine.
Entirely possible, I suppose that it may be something with a particular strain of non-virulent measles in some children that triggers the autism, or perhaps whatever triggers the autism in those children has a side effect of making their systems conducive to these bacterial colonies.
The one thing I came away with from all the research we did (and still do) is that their is likely no one cause of autism, that there are likely many different contributing factors that may or may not be the cause in any given autistic child, including some genetic factors (several members of my ex's family show marked autistic behaviours, even as adults), and what will trigger the autism in one child may not in another. Since medical science doesn't really understand the mechanics (or rather the brain chemistry) behind autism, they have no way of pointing at a cause. Wakefield may be 100% right for some children, and 100% wrong for others.
My understanding of it is that the various autistic spectrum disorders are symptoms rather than specific diseases, there can be any number of different factors that contribute to the behaviours and developmental problems, much like a runny nose could be due to a cold, the flu or allergies...the runny nose in and of itself is simply a symptom, not the disease/disorder.
thanks for plowing through my long posts on this.
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