autism and vaccines… just thinking ‘out loud’
so i’ve been doing some reading off and on today about this preservative in vaccinations called ‘thimerosal.’ i guess there’s some speculation and theorization that it causes autism, or that it causes mercury poisoning (which, i guess presents like autism in small children?).
why am i reading up on it? well, someone on an autism/asperger’s board i’m on apparently had her child (who had been diagnosed w/ autism) tested for mercury poisoning and apparently he has it.
it’s interesting.
i keep thinking about 1 of gage’s vaccinations in the first 2 years. i don’t remember what it was called, but it was supposed to be a combination of 3 shots (i don’t remember what 3). so one stick instead of 3. sounded good to us… the next visit they told us that there was something up with the vaccination they gave him and they would have to re-administer 2 of them, because they weren’t effective or something. a couple of years later while bitching about doctors with an acquaintance, i mentioned that particular incident. she said something about those “combined” shots being known to cause autism.
i don’t know about KNOWN… since everything i’ve found says that there’s no evidence to prove the theory of mercury poisoning (and i can’t find anything linking “combined” vaccines with autism), but i can’t help but wonder if perhaps we should have gage checked for mercury poisoning.
but then… what if he does have mercury poisoning? then what? chelation therapy? what after that? i mean… i’m not stupid or naive enough to believe that if he DOES have mercury poisoning that the therapy would give me a perfectly “normal” child in the end. it just doesn’t make sense that it would work that way. if we’re talking about damage done because of mercury being in his system, logic would dictate that removing the mercury wouldn’t magically reverse the effect.
i have much more reading/research to do on all of this… i just gotta figure out where to begin.
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