Mercury in Children's Vaccines

I really hate to get started on this issue, Oh how it makes me angry. If you read my profile. I have a 9 yr old Autistic son. When he was born in 97, he was healthy, and on time, no problems with delivery or anything. He was developing on time. He began to talk on time and do the baby things, like roll a ball, play pat-a-cake, etc,.....then.....we got his MMR shot at 17 mos. old. BUT. Just a few things, for one, 2 weeks later, he lost all his words and skills, 2- we joined a huge lawsuit against the manufacturer of the vaccine, 3- "thimerosal" is no longer in the vaccines. Hmmmm....makes ya wonder why all the sudden after all these years in the vaccine they take it out. ANyway, I can go on and on. The damage is done. I say, get knowledgeable. and GET VACCINATED!!!!!!!!!!!
You'd much rather risk having a disabled child ALIVE that having a child catch a deadly disease from no vaccine at all. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Good luck to you. D. B.

J.,
I have an autistic son too, and I have mixed feelings about whether or not it was caused by thimerosal. However,it's not in MOST kid vaccines now. It's still in some, like the flu shot, which I don't even know what age they give that to kids, since mine are older. So maybe you don't need to worry at all.

My oppinion ... kids should get vaccines. Want to scare yourself into getting vaccines? Read about the eradication of small pox, and how the World Health Org really busted butt in getting everywhere in the world to knock it out. Chicken Pox? No big deal unless you're one of the ones that gets shingles years later. It's a huge pain.

P.S. Scary book to read... Demon in the Freezer (about small pox and other scary diseases that may or may not be gone).

I used to work at Children's Medical Center Dallas and had the responsibility of covering the infection control beat for their internal and external publications. We dealt with this issue all the time. Not to disrespect the moms of autistic children -- neither their personal experience nor the that autism does seem to be on the rise in recent years -- but vaccinations and in particular thimerosol don't seem to be the cause (and thimerosol is moot in this country anyway because it's not used anymore). For the best recent studies on this, search for any combination of words about vaccines and Denmark, where every child is followed basically from birth by their healthcare system and where they've been studying autism across their entire population for about 10 years. As far as sound research, it doesn't get much more exhaustive than what they've been doing.

Also because of working that beat, I'm not prepared to say my kid will never be exposed to the diseases vaccines prevent because I've seen the realities. Every year in North Texas we have a whooping cough (otherwise known as pertussis) epidemic among unvaccinated young kids. Also, North Texas had a measles epidemic as recently as the 1990s.

Anyway. There was never any question in my mind about it and my 23mo daughter has never missed a vaccination.

Hi J.

They sure do. Visit www.generationrescue.org , check mercury poisoning there and you will see how much damage these vaccines are doing. Be very careful.

yes, vaccines do contain thimerosal. they used to have a lot more than they do now. you have to request vaccines without it. from personal experience: my son was perfect until he was 2 yo. talking, walking, doing everything on time. he got his 2 yo shots and shortly after, he stopped talking, started throwing horrible tantrums, was behind developmentally after that. at 4, they diagnosed him with adhd/odd and just recently diagnosed him with asperger's syndrome (a form of autism)...do i think the vaccines did it? yes, i do. is there anything i can do? no, there isnt. and why? because the government added a little clause about this issue in with the 9/11 homeland security bill that says: noone can sue the drug companies for their child getting adhd or autism due to vaccinations. am i bitter? yes, i am. will we get thru it? of course we will. i still love my son more than i thought possible. would i trade him for anything? heck, no.

so, just be careful. they did pass a law about thimerosal in vaccinations that lowered the amount drastically, however, they let all the doctors that already had the higher does vaccinations keep them and give them to kids...so, ask for the lower dosage vaccinations. good luck.

M.

I think whatever way you choose to look at the issue, you'll find "research" that supports it.

One thing to think about that hit me hard (someone else posted this on here recently) is how you're contributing to the vaccine system. If you choose not to vaccinate (which I am not criticizing), you may be working against the very point to getting kids in the country vaccinated-which is to eliminate certain diseases, many from the past of which are now eliminated because of vaccines.

Just another thing to think about (as if it wasn't hard enough to decide).
R.

We have a 4 1/2 year old autistic son... did mercury in the vaccines cause it? I don't know, but I now have very strong feelings about vaccinations regardless of the thimerasol issue.

In my opinion, many of the vaccinations are not neccesary. Chicken pox? We probably all had it and turned out fine. Polio? The odds of your child contracting this are very slim unless you travel internationally where it is still prevalent. In my pediatrician's office, there is a poster that gives the importance of vaccines and the statistics of how many cases of polio, mumps, measles, rubella, etc. there are in the US each year. To me, the VERY LOW (some almost non-existent) number of cases is not worth the chance of a "typical" child becoming a specials needs child.

Our oldest son has not received vaccines past two years old and we now have two other children who have only received the vaccines for meningitis. We lost a part of our first son to autism and I don't want to take that chance with my other two.

Vaccinations are a personal decision. All you can do it be educated and follow your heart!

V.