Why do we have so many more documented cases of autism? What causes it?!
Question: I believe it's a combination of issues. Do vaccines alone CAUSE autism spectrum disorders? Probably not. However, the commonality in these children seems to be that they are unable to process and metabolize what most "normal" children can. So, if you check an autistic child's titer levels at intervals after vaccinations have been administered, you may find them to be dangerously high as compared to a "normal" child's.
Another example of what these children cannot metabolize well that many other "normal" children can are foods/proteins in foods. Look at the population of ASD kids who have food allergies. The percentages are astounding. They have issues breaking down certain lipids and proteins, both essential building blocks for neural development and functioning.
There are so many hypotheses out there, and I believe that not one, but many, may contain truths relevant to this rising epidemic.
Food additives such as chemical colorings, sulfites and preservatives as well as pesticides and genetically modified ingredients all play a negative role in our health--this includes the increase in autism.
Too many antibiotics, too many vaccines, SAD (Standard American Diet), polluted water, air and soil, genetic predisposition----these are all, in my opinion, major roles in the development of an autism spectrum disorder in a child.
Answers: I believe it's a combination of issues. Do vaccines alone CAUSE autism spectrum disorders? Probably not. However, the commonality in these children seems to be that they are unable to process and metabolize what most "normal" children can. So, if you check an autistic child's titer levels at intervals after vaccinations have been administered, you may find them to be dangerously high as compared to a "normal" child's.
Another example of what these children cannot metabolize well that many other "normal" children can are foods/proteins in foods. Look at the population of ASD kids who have food allergies. The percentages are astounding. They have issues breaking down certain lipids and proteins, both essential building blocks for neural development and functioning.
There are so many hypotheses out there, and I believe that not one, but many, may contain truths relevant to this rising epidemic.
Food additives such as chemical colorings, sulfites and preservatives as well as pesticides and genetically modified ingredients all play a negative role in our health--this includes the increase in autism.
Too many antibiotics, too many vaccines, SAD (Standard American Diet), polluted water, air and soil, genetic predisposition----these are all, in my opinion, major roles in the development of an autism spectrum disorder in a child.
30-50 yrs ago they called them retards and sent them to a asylum now we take a more indepth look and classify them..
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There seems to be 2 causative factors: genetics, and air pollution.
If we had the answer to what causes autism, we probably wouldn't have so many cases.
at a guess i would say all the prescribed meds people are on for depression and ADD and ADHD and the likes and its only now showing in the next generation
I hope it's not the immunizations because I am afraid to not let my children have the shots. Also, why would there be more cases of autism in boys? it's gotta be something genetic.
For awhile they thought it was the multi-shot they were giving kids during immunizations about a decade ago but now they are saying that's not true. SOMEthing is changing, because when I was a kid hardly anyone was autistic. It could be that they have better ways of defining it now?? I think it's a combination of knowing what it is and being able to label it and some other factor that remains to be discovered.
i think that all mental illnesses come from over stressing the mind with out a break and in the postindustrial world its very easy to find someone working there balls off day and night with out even a coffee break
Nobody know the cause of autism.
Nobody.
It is NOT vaccines. That is a case of bad statistics. Children can't be diagnosed for autism until a certain age. That age is close to the age when vaccines are given. It is a false correlation.
Here is a ridiculous example to help clarify. Almost every criminal in the US has attended public school at some point. Does this means schools make people criminals?
The apparent increase in autism is due to better diagnosis and the fact that a broader range of disorders now fall in that category. There are varieties of autism, but all these different disorders are "autism."
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I found a story on it.
http://www.livescience.com/health/080401...
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I love it when the ignorant give me a thumbs down.
Many diseases these days are directly traceable to diet. The food in the U.S. is close to poison. There are so many additives that are not on the label and even the ones that are on the label are not so good for you. Recent studies have shown that indigenous people who changed their diet from the original food that they had eaten for centuries to the "modern "food had drastic escalations in behavior, health and longevity problems. Did you know that the surplus food of the U.S is refused by all nations because of the lack of nutrient value. We have damaged the soil and animals with chemicals and now the people themselves are showing signs of the same problems. If all ate organic food, there would be no need of doctors except for broken bone treatment.
Noone really knows. Some blame vaccines, but the evidence is lacking. Although no direct link to vaccines it could be due to effects the vaccine has on certain peoples immune system causing it to basically make a shift and letting other infectious diseases cause changes in the brain. Is it unsafe to vaccinate a kid? No because almost everyone else is vaccinated which pretty much keeps us safe. Most scientists agree that it has both genetic and environmental factors though.
Autism has been in the news off and on for years...The different treatments in the past were to send child to France for therapy. I figure that more parents are aware of this developmental problem and different therapies are being initiated at an early age.
No one knows what causes autism...
There are so many reasons. First would have to be medical advances; A pregnancy is 40 weeks long for a reason. A baby's brain develops until 29 weeks, so anything before 29 weeks increases the risk of neurological problems simply because the brain didn't fully develop. A baby is now considered "viable" at 24-25 weeks, and a baby born that early is going to have some problems.
I've also ran across quite a few autistic children with extremely defined fetal alcohol syndrome features. There is also Fragile X- (I think) it's a chromosome disorder, but it also causes autistic characteristics.
More awareness and broader diagnostic terms; If my daughter had been born 20+ years ago instead of 7 years ago, she would not have been diagnosed with autism.
There has to be a genetic link; In families with only 1 autistic child, there's a good chance his/her siblings and parents are generally "smarter" or do more scientific/computers type of work, they also tend to be a bit literal. For example; A family I know of who has a "severely" autistic child also has 3 other children. The older brother is amazing with legos, and has tons of bulidings, and structures that are very complex. His father is an accountant. Working with legos and numbers takes patience and of course skill. They are both able to focus for great periods of time on their work, had they been diagnosed with autism their focus would be considered "perservation."
My opinion is that there is also a mix of wrong diagnoses. Some children just have severe sensory processing issues, some children have other disorders. I also do not think children should have a bunch of "labels" that over lap; An early preemie should be just that, a preemie that didn't develop. A child with down syndrome should never have another diagnosis of autism, same with cerebal palsy.
There's also an abundance of autistic children with other "labels." I've seen children with over lapping Autism, OCD, ADHD, Sensory issues, auditory and visual processing issues; And I don't think that should happen, they have autism and all the other labels are just characteristics.
My daughter started with ADHD, then sensory issues so we dropped ADHD. Then she was diagnosed with central auditory processing disorder, which was dropped with the diagnosis of Autism. She has Autism, and everything before it just comes with the territory.
**There is a greater chance of a boy being diagnosed, but there is nothing showing that more boys have autism vs girls. There's just a greater chance of a boy being taken for evaluation, and for the school to identify them.
They have widened the autism spectrum to include other conditions like ADHD and ADD, since there are so many similarities among them. I believe that in some cases, there have been some children misdiagnosed with autism that have been "cured", which leads some to believe it is curable. It is not, but it's effects can be lessened by intense therapy.
VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.
Wake up.
If you want a good explaination of how we got here go and read this short excellent article.
http://www.naturalnews.com/022955.html
8 January 2008 by Boyd Haley, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
As expected by science, extensive searching for a genetic cause of autism has not turned up a significant find that would explain the recent increased rate in autism. The latest genetic find, at best, might explain 0.5% of autism causation. Most agree that a genetic predisposition is likely (like those that lead to low glutathione levels), but that a toxic exposure is absolutely needed. Consider also, that this increased toxic exposure would have had to occur in all 50 states at about the same time as all states have reported similar increases in autism rates. Only something like the government recommended vaccine program fits this need for a time dependent, uniform exposure of a toxin throughout all the states.
Autism may be caused by a thimerosal modified protein that sets off an immune response or causes some other biological reaction that can cascade with injurious effects. Since the vaccines are manufactured with thimerosal present in abundance it is quite likely that any cysteine containing proteins would be modified with ethylmercury. Removal of most of the free thimerosal (or just not adding it) would not decrease the level of any toxic modified protein produced during the vaccines production that might be causal. Removing the thimerosal added as a preservative would not decrease the amount of this ethylmercury modified protein in those vaccines with