Another Study Sees No Vaccine-Autism Link

[HuckleB]

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/03/29/another-study-sees-no-vaccine-autism-link

"Although some parents worry about the sheer number of vaccines babies typically receive, a new U.S. government study finds no evidence that more vaccinations increase the risk of autism.

Looking at about 1,000 U.S. children with or without autism, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no connection between early childhood vaccinations and autism risk.

Children with autism and those without had the same total exposure to vaccine antigens -- the substances in vaccines that trigger the immune system to develop infection-fighting antibodies.

"This should give more reassurance to parents," said lead researcher Dr. Frank DeStefano, director of the CDC's Immunization Safety Office.

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FYI...

[SheilaT]

1. While I am not entirely convinced

that such a large number of vaccines at a young age is a good idea, I do know that there's no vaccine-autism link.

I have a child with Asperger's, and I can tell you he was different from the day he was born, long before he got any vaccines.

[Warpy]

2. Well, they need to be protected ASAP from as many deadly diseases

as we can protect them from. Their immune systems are no more overwhelmed by vaccines than they are when a little one picks up something really nasty off the ground and sticks it into his mouth, the infant/toddler way of exploring the world.

Kudos to you for being observant enough to spot it so quickly. Most parents are in denial until the kid is over two.

[HuckleB]

3. +1

[SheilaT]

4. Well, my son was not diagnosed until

he was 18 and halfway through his senior year of high school. That's in part because he was born in 1982, and so there wasn't a lot of diagnosing of Asperger's even after it hit the DSM in 1994.

He was always different, but we didn't have a name for the difference. It is remarkably easy to be in denial about your kid for all sorts of things. I suppose that some of the reason people want to blame autism on vaccines, is that for far too long idiot doctors blamed the mothers. Well, if it was the mothering that made the kid autistic, then every single child in the household would be autistic, but usually they aren't.

Asperger son has a younger brother who is incredibly social. He currently lives in Portland, OR, delivers pizza for a living, and does open-mike stand-up. The two young men couldn't be more different, and they had the same two biological parents and were raised as much alike as ever happens in a household.

And to go off slightly on this topic, I think that there can be a problem in a way with early diagnosis. It is good to have needed services, but sometimes the kid becomes the label. I'm not advocating against diagnosis, but I feel we were much better off not having the diagnosis for so long. It made me work very hard with him on things like his social skills, and if you were to meet him today you'd simply see a rather shy but very smart young man.

[Warpy]

5. I agree, the dumb bastards blamed Mom for far too long

and that was even sillier than blaming the vaccines. Thanks to Freud, one might have thought men would insist on staying home to raise the kids while the women earned the living, women were so damaging to their children!

[xchrom]

6. again. nt