Routine vaccinations and child survival: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau, West AfricaCommentary: an unexpected finding that needs confirmation or rejection
For many years I have trawled through vast amounts of data on each
and every child assessment I undertake. It took very little time before I
realised that a small percentage of children had been affected by vaccine.
In some cases the effect was dramatic and immediate. In others a gradual
falling away of communication skills and an emergence, in some cases, of
bowel problems.
In a few startling cases video evidence showed a perfectly normal
child the day before the vaccination - never to return. If a child
swallows a noxious substance and then falls over or is sick, we would not
dismiss the most obvious event which had just occurred as being possibly
linked with the child's behaviour.
In the children with autism who appear to have regressed and /or
developed allergies and bowel problems after the vaccination, it was also
clear that those children had been medically vulnerable children before
the vaccine and /or children with allergies, say, to dairy products.
There has been a vast increase in numbers of children with such
presenting problems since the MMR, in particular, was introduced, but it
is likely that these children are few in number compared to the whole
child population who have been vaccinated, my heightened awareness more
likely given that I specialise in autism.
An open an honest approach by the Government would be far less likely
to jeopardise the vaccination programme than ignoring what is a very real
and increasingly obvious problem for many desperate families who have
`lost ` their children to autism after vaccine.
Recognising which children are vulnerable, whether the triple vaccine
is actually viable and whether it is necessary to have 3 shots which could
compromise the immune system just at the point in time when a child is
developing a complex tapestry of cognitive skills, are surely reasonable
questions to raise in a civilised society?
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Vaccination and autism/bowel problems
For many years I have trawled through vast amounts of data on each
and every child assessment I undertake. It took very little time before I
realised that a small percentage of children had been affected by vaccine.
In some cases the effect was dramatic and immediate. In others a gradual
falling away of communication skills and an emergence, in some cases, of
bowel problems.
In a few startling cases video evidence showed a perfectly normal
child the day before the vaccination - never to return. If a child
swallows a noxious substance and then falls over or is sick, we would not
dismiss the most obvious event which had just occurred as being possibly
linked with the child's behaviour.
In the children with autism who appear to have regressed and /or
developed allergies and bowel problems after the vaccination, it was also
clear that those children had been medically vulnerable children before
the vaccine and /or children with allergies, say, to dairy products.
There has been a vast increase in numbers of children with such
presenting problems since the MMR, in particular, was introduced, but it
is likely that these children are few in number compared to the whole
child population who have been vaccinated, my heightened awareness more
likely given that I specialise in autism.
An open an honest approach by the Government would be far less likely
to jeopardise the vaccination programme than ignoring what is a very real
and increasingly obvious problem for many desperate families who have
`lost ` their children to autism after vaccine.
Recognising which children are vulnerable, whether the triple vaccine
is actually viable and whether it is necessary to have 3 shots which could
compromise the immune system just at the point in time when a child is
developing a complex tapestry of cognitive skills, are surely reasonable
questions to raise in a civilised society?
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