http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/09/new-autism-genes-found/?hpt=T3 So it is genetic, but they say it's just a risk... where does that put Jenny McCarthy?
I went to school with" autism Gene". Didn't know him well, but then nobody did. Kept to himself, kinda quiet...
Genes, not gene. Sounds like a trivial distinction but it's not. There appear to be various sequences of DNA copying errors that increase risk of autism. The quack who postulated a vaccine/autism risk has been censured, not for making a mistake, that happens in science, but for cooking data. It's frightening that uninformed people are leaving their kids and other kids at risk for diseases that should have disappeared long ago and those talk shows that give time to people like McCarthy are complicit.
It is frightening indeed! I have heard that the rate of Autism has even gone up since the mercury from vaccines was removed. Thanks for the correction
We just took in our little girl for her first shots. My wife posted on facebook "I didn't like the look of betrayal in her eyes as she glared at me after her shots". A nurse friend of ours wrote back "you should stare back at her with polio and whooping cough in your eyes". My niece was exposed to whooping cough before she was ready for her shots by a whacked-out family from the sticks of California, and spent a month in the hospital. Their explanation was that it was the gov't trying to control our kids by giving them brain traumas. My sister-in-law asked afterwards how many of their kids had been hospitalized with brain traumas.
I just missed, literally by weeks, the measles vaccine (yes I am that old). I was about 5, and I was so damn sick. I not only was covered in rash head to toe, I had it internally, my entire gastrointestinal tract was inflamed, my vagina and urethra, to pee was agony. My mother would spoon feed me soup and tea and after about two spoonfuls it hurt so much I was crying. I could not get out of bed for weeks. Try living through that, or seeing a small child through that. And I was one of the lucky ones. I did recover with no permanent ill effects. Some don't.
What we did with our boy is simply stagger his shots. He received no more than three at one time. We'd come back in two week intervals to get another two or three. We didn't believe in the vaccine risk theory, but in case it was true, it seemed a reasonable precaution.
Many times in our society Dr's prescpriction and recommended drugs have latter been found to be harmful. I don't see an issue with second guessing what a doctor recommends and eventually not taking medication or vaccine that is recommended.
If you think a doc's recommendations don't sound good, by all means get a second opinion. Second guessing based on what some celeb said on Larry King is not a real good idea, frankly. You may say "sometimes" meds are harmful, and yes, they are. But all the time polio, measles, smallpox are harmful. Do you want to gamble with your child's health? Or the health of other people's kids? Or your own?
My mom tried to make sure I got chickenpox when I was younger - she had me play with all the kids in the neighborhood who got it, be it hugging them or just hanging out with them. Never got them. Luckily never got any of those things. Now I'll just get chickenpox when I'm 35 and fall over and die.
It's not really that funny...my mother-in-law got it at 55 (after all 4 of her kids had had it when children) and was in some really bad pain and a day or two in the hospital. I think it's called "shingles" when you get it when you're older, but I'm not sure. All I know is that she was in some severe pain for more than a few days.
I had the measles. Had chickenpox twice. No big deal, just part of growing up. Kids nowadays are such wusses.
Shingles is chicken pox, but it's after you've had it already and it resurfaces. Chicken pox are always with us, it's just a dormant disease. Shingles is when it goes active again.
My 16 year old brother had shingles a couple months ago. He thought it was just really bad back pain but he went to the doctor and found out it was shingles. He was in pretty bad pain for a few days.
Yeah it's definitely not some shit you want to get. It can spread all over your body, and it's super painful.
