"Here I learned the latest scientific research on autism and became inspired by the many therapeutic possibilities these new insights offered. Below the main facts are listed. It is a message of hope and I no longer consider it appropriate to label autism an incurable disorder. The facts simply disprove this assumption. The key to treating autistic children is a protein called metallothionein that will be explored deeper in the paragraphs below. As a homeopathic physician, I now possess three ways to bring these children out of their isolation and put them back in an interactive and emotional world:
1. "The detoxification of the various vaccines using homeopathically prepared remedies made from the various vaccines that possibly triggered the autism.
2. "The orthomolecular treatment to restore the copper/zinc ratio and to reactivate the metallothionein. The heavy metal level will hereby be decreased and the integrity of the intestines restored. The extra administration of omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) also forms an indispensable element in this treatment.
3. "The constitutional homeopathic treatment of the child whereby a remedy is chosen that is mainly based on the behavior of the child. From my own experience, the medicine Saccharum Officinale which is made from the juice of the sugarcane plant plays a crucial role in this and is able to enrich the emotional state of the autistic child dramatically. Saccharum Officinale is also a prime medicine for curing intestinal disorders and most likely is also linked to the copper-zinc ratio, even though this still has to be explored further."
..."Methallothionein is a protein that carries out very vital functions in the body. There are four different types of this protein. It is made up of 60 to 70 aminoacids and 7 atoms of zinc. One of its most important functions is the protection against heavy metals....Not only is it present in the intestines, the first line of defense, but is also found in the liver, pancreas, mouth, stomach and brain. Heavy metals pass the blood-brain barrier unhindered. Thus a two month old baby with a metallothionein deficiency injected with the DTPP/HIB vaccination in two separate shots, is injected with 2 x 25 mcg of aluminum and is unable to bind the aluminum and expel it from its body...."
http://www.tinussmits.com/english/autism.htm
Megson's research has shown total deficiency of vitamin A in almost all autistic children. What depletes the body of vitamin A at 15 months? The MMR vaccine. In addition, Megson found that pertussis toxin from the DPT shot disrupted a certain protein that is necessary for retinal formation. This would account for the prevalence of night-blindness and loss of 3D vision so common among autistics.
Here’s the abstract of that study: Med Hypotheses. 2000 Jun;54(6):979-83.
Pediatric and Adolescent Ability Center, Richmond, VA 23226
Autism may be a disorder linked to the disruption of the G-alpha protein, affecting retinoid receptors in the brain. A study of 60 autistic children suggests that autism may be caused by inserting a G-alpha protein defect, the pertussis toxin found in the DPT vaccine, into genetically at-risk children. This toxin separates the G-alpha protein from retinoid receptors. Those most at risk report a family history of at least one parent with a pre-existing G-alpha protein defect, including night blindness, pseudohypoparathyroidism or adenoma of the thyroid or pituitary gland.Natural vitamin A may reconnect the retinoid receptors critical for vision, sensory perception, language processing and attention. Autism spectrum disorders have increased from 1 in 10 000 in 1978 to 1 in 300 in some communities in 1999. Recent evidence indicates that autism is a disorder of the nervous system and the immune system, affecting multiple metabolic pathways.
PMID: 10867750 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
A world-class researcher and molecular biologist from Ireland, using state-of-the-art sequencing technology, showed how he had found the measles virus in the gut of 96% of autistic children, compared to 6.6% in normal children. Dr. O'Leary found measles virus present in 75% of children with Crohn's disease. Crohn's has traditionally been an intestinal disease of adults, following years of dietary abuse. Its appearance in children is a new event.
Here is the link to his study:
http://mp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/55/2/84 [It actually does not say that the measles virus FROM VACCINES is the cause.]
A specialist from Utah who has studied over 400 cases of autism, found that these children had experienced an autoimmune episode, in which their own bodies had been made to attack the linings of their nervous systems. Dr. Singh characterized the epidemic as a "hyperimmune response to the measles virus." He stated that 55% of the families said that autism appeared soon after an MMR shot, and that 33% of families said it appeared soon after a DPT shot.
Pediatr Neurol. 2004 Jan;30(1):78 - Elevated levels of measles antibodies in children with autism.
J Biomed Sci. 2002 Jul-Aug;9(4):359-64. - Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism.
Clin Immunol Immunopathol. 1998 Oct;89(1):105-8. -
Autism rates in Japan continued to rise after the withdrawal of MMR vaccine. The experience of Japan therefore constitutes a real-world experiment of replacing triple MMR vaccine with single vaccines because of problems with production.
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Vaccines/noMMR.html
Eric Fombonne: Well it depends on the question being asked. If the question is are there more children today diagnosed with autism or autism spectrum disorder as compared to 30 or 40 years ago the answer is yes. We do diagnose more often these conditions than we used to do in the past. Does that mean that there is an epidemic of autism - no, and the reason is as follows. 40 years ago the diagnostic criteria that we use for diagnosing autism were relatively narrow so we were really looking at children who were often mentally retarded, had no language or very abnormal language development. At the time we did not recognise that autism could also occur in children with normal intellectual functioning, children with an IQ 100 or 120 who could have good language development for instance. And therefore it's no surprise that we are actually now diagnosing autism spectrum disorders in a higher number of children than in the past....
Eric Fombonne: But the thiomersal issue is more important. And the thiomersal issue has to do with the fact that we have used over the years small amounts of ethyl mercury in the vaccines to stabilise the vaccines in multiple dose vials. In Quebec again we are fortunate that in the period that we studied there were changes in how much mercury was used in the vaccines. So from 1987 to 1991 there was a dose of about 100 and 125 micrograms of ethyl mercury in the vaccines and then because we introduced new vaccines in 1992, the dose to which young children were exposed before age 2 actually rose to 200 and even 225 micrograms. And then what happened in Quebec is that in 1996 they decided to combine these four vaccines DCP, HIB with the polio vaccine which is a live attenuated vaccines. And because live vaccines cannot tolerate the use of thiomersal, thiomersal was altogether removed from the vaccines in 1996. So we had a wonderful natural experiment where we could look at whether or not our trends in our rates of PDDs were bearing any relationship with variability in the levels of exposure to thimerosal and in fact all the techniques that we used failed to show that there was any relationship between the two phenomena....
[But how is autism inherited if the children are normal and then develop it? And it is the vaccine itself that I think is the problem. The sheer number of vaccines given and the crap that is in the vaccines. See the page on: vaccines...- BFG]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2006/1619796.htm
Why Don't the Amish Have Autistic Children?
http://www.mercola.com/2005/may/4/amish_autism.htm
Babies who develop autism later may appear normal at first and reach the usual developmental milestones, including early speech. But as they grow into toddlers, they may fail to develop normal social behaviour and speech may be lost. [Read that as after a slew of vaccinations.... - BFG]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/autism1.shtml
There's more you might be interested in, including an article that dissects a study on thimerosol and autism (the study used to claim "once and for all" that thimerosol isn't connected to autism). Did you know that they eliminated all children diagnosed with autism?
That article is: http://gaia-health.com/articles/000011-Dissecting-A-Thimerosol-Study.shtml
A woman's son was diagnosed as autistic when he was three, plunging his parents into a four-year nightmare. He had both a severe language disorder - unable to say more than two words - and learning disabilities which stopped him from communicating with the outside world. It was a casual chat with another mother from her son's school which led to a new approach. Fish oil supplements. She said "The fish oil tablets seemed to wake him up and unlock something." His speech went from a two-word level to seven-word sentences and he's now even reading the Oxford school series. It's the most natural thing in the world for a child to show love for its mother. But she waited four years for her son just to hug her and say, "I love you."