Dr. Mercola April 22 2008 49,194 views
Another useful tool that can help with autistic behaviors and symptoms is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). For an example see EFT helps autistic horseback riding student focus on riding.
It's simple... Do vaccines cause any number of neurological diseases and autism? YES. But, does it happen to every single child vaccinated? NO. Different question... Do cigarettes cause lung cancer? YES. But, does every person that smokes get lung cancer? NO. But the reality is that if our children were to ask us if they can start smoking cigarettes, we're not going to tell them, "Sure, honey! There's a chance that you MIGHT NOT get lung cancer so, go ahead, puff away!" It's a dice roll. And, if our children happen to avoid dying from vaccines at a young age, they have future neurological diseases to possibly look forward to. The problem of sickness is this country is not due to a lack of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, or diagnostic tests. We've more than enough of those.
She pulled the figure of “33,000 children saved from death by vaccines” out of her rectum. There has been no long-term follow up of vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals. Sounds very like the “36,000 people die from influenza” garbage when actual deaths were only 152, and the equally ludicrous “400,000 excess deaths due to obesity” when obesity is not a cause of death on any death certificate.
She actually doesn't say "saved from death by vaccines". Her statement is "saved from death associated with vaccines because of our immunization program". Which even though she didn't mean for it to sound that way, is basically like saying "he was saved from death by a gun because he was shot". But there was truth in the statement "DEATH ASSOCIATED WITH VACCINES".
I am a 45 year old woman who by the age of 12 had suffered through chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, and a few bouts of the flu! They each lasted a week or two and I would rather have the actual disease again then have the vaccine and worry the rest of my life about "side effects" from being innoculated. My children were half way through their vaccinations when I became "informed" of the dangers and stopped. To this day, at the age of 19 and 16, EVERY doctor visit (a rarity) I am told "your children are not caught up on their vaccines, we can do that now, all of them today, plus the flu shot, it's for their own good". Of course I politely refuse and am met with stares of shock when I ask them to guarantee it safe with no health risks and to put it in writing and sign it. No one has taken me up on that offer yet!
Lubov, I do like your style! I also had all those childhood diseases, except whooping cough, which I was exposed to but never got. No big deal.
Keep holding the doctors' and their medical staff's feet to the fire. I don't go to medical doctors. I see a naturepath and a chiropractor, and sometimes a massage therapist, and am healthier now than I have ever been.
You're tough and we need more like you!
I would run away from doctors who think mercury has nothing to do with anything;
Maybe it is a health supplement ,that is why they adding it to each of the vaccines...
I often wondered are the docs part of the scheme or they brainwashed or they have fast processors but old windows running in their heads...
It seems that you need to do a bit more research on Autism, first of all a "good catch" is seen to be a diagnosis at 3 years of age. Charities like NAAR are funding research to identify as early as 9 months but they are some way off.
Almost all Autism is regressive; it is the nature of Autism and the brain development. You can't rely on what parent notice or "indeed any serious illness” what you should consider is the common factor - the immune system.
One of the issues is that the onset of Autism is only detectable using current methods after a certain amount of normal brain development. We had the MMR scare (which I think is a catalyst in a damaged immune system rather than a cause) and we held off from vaccinating our child for MMR until 19 months. We were persuaded by a blinded medical professional who was following Government advice about the importance of vaccination. This advice lost the Government trust and now many people refuse to vaccinate at all.
Our first child showed many changes within a month of the MMR, inability to tolerate being lifted, screaming all the time etc. Our Doctor who has a child on the spectrum referred us to a behavioural psychologist who dismissed our child’s behaviour as precocious!
It was only at pre-school that we were advised there may be issues because of social issues like playing with other children.
For our second child we chose to pay privately for separate vaccines a year apart, we did not administer the measles component at all. Needless to say the second child is neurotypical.
The jury is still out on the role of Vaccines, but there HAS been an increase in the third world where Thimerosal is still used and as I said below we are seeing a drop in EARLY diagnosis since October 2007 (3 years post removal of Thimerosal here).
Of course nobody will admit it anyway, so what I tell parents is that knowing does not help you help your child and anger is part of the bereavement process that comes with diagnosis.
Dr.Dr. Richards, commenting from both sides would mean you have experience in seeing the symptoms of autism clear from following protocols such as a diet restricting grains and sugar, detox from heavy metals, feeding only fresh organic veggies and fruits, raw milk, getting proper exercise, sunlight, good natural sleep, checking vitamin D levels and supplementing as needed.
Are any of these treatments something you have tried? I know they aren't something you were taught in medical school.
The question that remains in my mind is; both sides of what?
You listed cases of tetanus, deaths from pertussis (what us old folk call whooping cough), measles encephelitis, and haemophilis meningitis. How many total cases of each did you actually see? Of those total cases of measles, pertussis, and meningitis, what was the actual death statistic per each disease, given the total number of cases?
Think about this. How many diseases could have been prevented if people had used proper hygiene?
I never saw a case of autism until about 1980, when my son was two years old. A friend had this tragedy occur to her child. I am 56 years old. Let me repeat this; I NEVER SAW A CASE OF AUTISM UNTIL ABOUT 1980. There were no children with these symptoms. Fever-induced brain damage, yes. Mental retardation, yes. Autistic symptoms just were not heard of 30 or more years ago.
My granddaughter will never have a vaccination, EVER.
Why, Dr.Dr Richards, would you need to demonstrate metabolic imbalances and correct them to 'improve' or 'cure' a vaccine damaged patient, when 35 years ago, this 'autism cascade' was virtually non-existent?