Autism/vaccination link Saw this on AOL news today. Think it is from JAMA, but not sure. Interesting? "A new study of close to 100,000 children shows no link between the vaccine to prevent measles, mumps, and rubella and an increased risk of autism. Researchers analyzed health insurance claims covering 95,727 children who had received either zero or one of the recommended two doses of the MMR vaccine over an 11-year period since 2001. The study found "no harmful association between the receipt of the MMR vaccine and the development of an autism spectrum disorder." |
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It's good that awareness is being raised re: this..thanks! |
Did anyone hear Jimmy Kimmel's rant on this? Jimmy Kimmel Delivered A Scorching Message For Anti-Vaxxers |
Video Thanks, no I hadn't seen it....until now. A great message put in a very funny way. The docs were good too:) |
I loved the line about parents in LA being more afraid of gluten than small pox! |
Few things irritate me more than parents who don't vaccinate their kids. I don't have any immunity to any of my childhood shots, and I can't gain any immunity from recent shots, yet I managed to get through 13 years of public school plus college without getting any "childhood diseases" because of a little thing called herd immunity. Herd immunity is a wonderful thing and the benefits should be reserved for babies, senior citizens, and immunocompromised people. Sadly actual science doesn't seem to work on most people, they'd rather just follow trends. |
Herd immunity protects many! We'll probably never know how much suffering and even death it's saved. |
I wonder how the anti vaccinators that live in communities with like minded people would react if their kid got cancer and suddenly the risk of death from these "harmless" diseases went way up. My guess is they'd change their tune really fast. |
1 Attachment(s) As a mother of five young children, I have had a lot of cause to think about this subject. I vaccinated my daughters but took a break before completing my sons vaccinations to read more about vaccines- this was also at a height of the vaccine/autism link scare. Ultimately, herd immunity and the protection of people who had compromised immune systems was a huge factor in my decision to continue vaccinating all of my children (beside of course the obvious- hey, let's not get polio kids) and all five of my children (and my little Lilah) are and continue to be vaccinated. The benefit to the whole seems necessary. That said, my middle son is autistic. He is sweet and smart and chatty, loves the color yellow and pandas and the number 88, lol. And although his issues are pretty appearant and have been (or maybe should have been but that's a long story) since Very early on, strangely enough, his two brothers have recently been identified (somewhat unofficially) by our special Ed doctor as falling under the autistic category as well. They are very different from orion, very 'normal' you might say and honestly, I am still not sure how I feel about this take on things. That said, I have done a lot of searching in this area, we go to a therapist and see a dr and work with special Ed at school etc etc Although it does not appear as though vaccines are causing Autism- and the only potentially viable standing platform thAt might've had in my mind would've been the thimerasol/Mercury in the vaccines which they took out thirteen years ago- it does seem like it must be influenced by impacting environmental factors (food toxins? Herbicides? I really don't know). I beleive there is also a huge flux of diagnosis too, example my oldest boy was at the dr last Friday, we were discussing a long term issue that seemed to relate to hearing but the audiologist said he hears fine- dr says, well this sounds like what we used to call auditory processing disorder (explains it) but now we categorize that under ASD- autism. Really?? My oldest boy is nothing like my middle boy! That is why they call it a spectrum is what he says. Still not sure I buy it but either way an interesting thought toward what is being called autism that used to not be. Even so, though the numbers may be bloated with a huge categorization of issues being applied to ASD I think it is undeniable that it is more prevelant than before. it is, to say the least, a curious turn of events for the human species. |
I think a good bit of the reasons why autism is much more common now are more kids with milder forms are being diagnosed, people are talking about it more so it's more in the public eye, and women are getting pregnant much later in life. It reminds me a lot of ADHD in the 90's; I'm sure a lot of those kids would be called autistic now instead. I think I'd be called autistic too because of my sensory issues (light, sound, smells, touch), but because of my age it's put under fibromyalgia. My neighbor's son with autism has a pretty severe case and it was obvious since birth that something wasn't right (to my family, we used to babysit him a lot, his family didn't want to see it). He was diagnosed when he was 2. He's 7, doesn't talk at all, isn't fully potty trained, gets into everything, and he's very picky with food and stuff. In a lot of ways he's a toddler. I think it's genetic is this case, his cousin has a severe case too, they might not be able to keep him at home much longer, he's about 10? |
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