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Feb 08, 2009 03:23 PM

Thimrosal-Autism-Childhood Vaccinations

by pagandeva2000 Staff

I am in the middle of cross training and in a few weeks, I may be going to pediatrics for two weeks. I discovered a few months ago that my son's half-brother has autism. His father told me that he believes that this developed due to childhood vaccinations received at 6 months of age-stated that his son was developing normally until he received his vaccine series, came home and had seizures.

Of course, he is asking me questions and I am quite sure I will encounter them again. What is the deal about the relationship between thimrosal (sorry if I spelled it wrong) and autism? I am reading, but the information is complicated to me. I would like resources that I can share with parents making this decision and to be proficient enough to at least be able to explain if asked. Thanks!


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Old Feb 08, 2009, 03:30 PM

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There was just another new long-term study out in Italy they did about this. It showed no difference in the kids receiving it vs. ones who didn't in autism rates. I'll see if I can find it.
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 03:30 PM

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Here it is: http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...,4843274.story
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 03:34 PM

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This is a very controversial topic.

http://www.immunize.org
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by c0ntagion View Post

Greatly appreciated! I sent a copy to my work email in order to make copies.
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from BradleyRN
Old Feb 08, 2009, 05:56 PM

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I believe there is certainly a link between the mercury preservative Thimerosal and autism. Thimerosal began it's widespread use in 1978, and 80% of autism cases were born after 1980. The thousands of parents that have claimed behavior changes in their children shortly after immunizations is enough evidence to warrant caution. Of course there will never be an admission to this link, though they have phased out the use of Thimerosal. If there were truly no issue, why then would they halt it's use?
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 06:17 PM

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...lif_increases/

Do you have any studies on this? Autism cases have actually INCREASED since the removal of Thermasol.
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from BabyLady
Old Feb 08, 2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by pagandeva2000 View Post
I am in the middle of cross training and in a few weeks, I may be going to pediatrics for two weeks. I discovered a few months ago that my son's half-brother has autism. His father told me that he believes that this developed due to childhood vaccinations received at 6 months of age-stated that his son was developing normally until he received his vaccine series, came home and had seizures.

Of course, he is asking me questions and I am quite sure I will encounter them again. What is the deal about the relationship between thimrosal (sorry if I spelled it wrong) and autism? I am reading, but the information is complicated to me. I would like resources that I can share with parents making this decision and to be proficient enough to at least be able to explain if asked. Thanks!
Part of me, does think there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism.

However, on the same side, I can also see where it's also easy to blame the vaccinations as virtually all kids receive them, receive them very often after birth, so when signs pop up, "Yup, it was the vaccine."

When it could have just as easily been...when their personality really started to develop...and that was when they noticed he really wasn't like other babies.

It's really, really hard to tell.
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jode View Post
Do you have any studies on this? Autism cases have actually INCREASED since the removal of Thermasol.
My research is several years old, and comes only from memory. I condemned Thimerosal then, but today would only suggest listening to the parents who noticed changes in their infants behavior after immunizations. There are THOUSANDS of them. If Thimerosal is not the culprit, perhaps the numerous number of vaccines are. In any case, when i have a child, he/she will neither receive so many immunizations so close together nor Thimerosal.
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Old Feb 08, 2009, 07:10 PM

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So to summarise, Thimerosal is a mercury component that was removed from vaccinations some time ago. Some believe that autism has increased due to how closely the vaccinations are administered as per protocol suggested by the CDC childhood immunization schedule, others believe that they have decreased.

I think that the best thing is to present these facts to the parents and leave it to them, because there are unclear answers from the medical community. It could very well be that these vaccinations are promoted for the pharmaceutical companies profit, who knows? But, I just feel better saying that to them and leaving them to make their own educated guesses.
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