My son has autism and his story is very similar to many other children also on the Autism spectrum. My son was very much a healthy and happy child for the first year of his life - until he went to a well visit and received a toxic cocktail of multiple vaccinations (including the experimental MMR-V a mercury containing vax, a flu shot, and others). That night he ended up in the hospital. The doctors said he had asthma. Over the following year he lost words and stopped meeting developmental milestones. We started early intervention to help him get caught up but he never did and he was ultimately diagnosed with Autism. I refused to let the doctors and schools write him off as just another number. Therapy, ABA, OT, PT, Speech, Behavior plans - it is all great and helps but I knew we needed to do more for him. A big giant red flag was the fact that in Kindergarten my son got sent home almost weekly. In fact, I originally began this blog as a place to rant against the school nurse who kept sending my son home.. day after day, week after week. My son was always getting sick. He would come home and then he wouldn't seem sick. I identified that the sickness usually correlated to things he ate.
I knew people who had put their autistic children on special diets and were seeing results - I knew it wasn't going to be easy and it would also be a financial challenge. I did it anyways - at first on a trial basis. We noted immediate changes when we eliminated milk and so we proceeded with eliminating gluten. We started supplements. Bit by bit, we watched our son make gains. Huge Gains. Not only was he no longer getting sick at school (aside from the usual seasonal stuff) he started to behave better and have less tantrums. He still has autism but he is a changed child.
Our story is not a fluke.
Vaccines hurt my child and biomedical interventions are helping him.
I want to share this link/video to someone who is a rock star and someone who I am honored to consider my friend :) Kim Stagliano - mother of 3 children with Autism. Kim blogs at Huffington Post and is the managing editor of Age of Autism
4 comments:
Happy Birthday to your daughter!
I echo your feeling about the article! Thanks for standing your ground.
Thanks for this post. Can I ask for some advice? My son was diagnosed this past month with autism and the doctor said there is a one in 20 chance my other children could have autism as well. I am not worried about my daughter; she is 4 and shows no signs at all of having autism. It's my almost one-year-old I am worried about.
I know there are very few things I can do to prevent it, but vaccinations are something I am really concerned about. What can I do? He has already had some vaccinations, but hasn't had any since his 6-month checkup. (I didn't take him for his 9-month because it was in Dec and right in the middle of the scary flu epidemic). Is it better to put off the vaccinations? Is it only the MMR I should be worried about? I don't know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Oh, and as an aside, I read some things about the Lancet retraction. I don't think the retraction necessarily means there are no links between autism and vaccination. Instead, it just signifies that there were problems with this particular researcher and his methods. Just because he was possibly unethical doesn't mean there is no link. Unfortunately, I think many people are interpreting it that way, which is too bad.
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