Monday, 18 January 2010
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Does Someone Have to Die For Us to Take a Second Look?
"However, the risk of causing serious harm or death is extremely small" This is a quote from an article about the recent report of a young child having an extreme and potentially deadly allergic reaction to the H1N1 Vaccine.It's every parents worst nightmare. They are trying to do the best they can for their child and an unexpected adverse reaction almost takes that child’s life. A crazy scenario none of us wants to think about much less experience.
Although this is an example of an extreme case in that the child almost died, should we not then consider that there may be thousands of other children that are being adversely affected in milder forms or in ways we do not see as immediately as full cardiac arrest.
Consider the most recent statistics for Epilepsy.
From http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/about/statistics.cfm
Incidence -- Epilepsy:
200,000 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed each year.
Incidence is highest under the age of 2 and over 65.
45,000 children under the age of 15 develop epilepsy each year.
Males are slightly more likely to develop epilepsy than females.
Incidence is greater in African American and socially disadvantaged populations.
Trend shows decreased incidence in children; increased incidence in the elderly.
In 70 percent of new cases, no cause is apparent.
50 percent of people with new cases of epilepsy will have generalized onset seizures.
Generalized seizures are more common in children under the age of 10; afterwards more than half of all new cases of epilepsy will have partial seizures
Again, epilepsy is a serious condition so let's back up from that and go to some of the more mild forms of neurological illness, ADD, ADHD and OCD. So we are still grasping at straws, well then let's back up even further, mild asthma, allergy and eczema.
I grew up going to a school with a population of approximately 800 children. I knew of 2 kids with asthma, a few with allergy, none with eczema and no one had ADHD or ADD, however there was that one kid who was hyper. I can’t recall people being panicked over the flu, an outbreak of measles, mumps or chicken pox and this was in a time when vaccination for these illnesses were not available.
I’m not saying that vaccine is definitively the cause of any of these conditions. What I am saying is that there appears to be a surge in diagnosable illness and neurological disorders and the only universally viable suspect is the increasing number of vaccinations we impose on our children’s underdeveloped immune & nervous systems.
Just something I wonder about sometimes when I‘m taking my son to his school for severely disabled children. .
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Yeah, we walk this line every time a new vaccine comes out. There's been a lot written in the past few years about how vaccine's probably aren't the cause of autism, but we still usually end up on the side that says no.
I've decided not to get my children vaccinated with the H1N1 vaccine considering the fact that both my oldest and youngest children contracted it. How my middle child didn't get it is beyond me. I'm always worried about the newest vaccines that come out...because well....I just don't understand the concept of the children being guinea pigs to something that perhaps might backfire and harm them even more. Children's bodies are vulnerable to begin with. That's how I look at it
I totally agree. While we don't know whether any of these vaccines are the cause of all sorts of problems we are seeing now, it is possible that they are. As for the H1N1 vaccine, there is no way I'm going to let my children get a vaccine that is THAT new. There has been no testing for it, really... nothing long-term enough to make me feel comfortable with it.
Personally, I think that if we're going to "blame" environmental factors as opposed to inherited/genetic factors... I'd lean more toward the insane amount of electromagnetic fields we are exposed to now as opposed to how many there were in the past. There is a lot more "noise" out there now than there ever was in the past. Combine that with all the other stuff, and it is no wonder that we're turning out a bunch of "electronically scrambled" kids... I mean think about it:
It was not until the mid to late 1970's that television reached the near 100% "saturation" mark. (Meaning almost 100% of families in the US owned at least one television.) Since then the number of broadcasts has increased exponentially. (Theories of Mass Communications, Defluer, 1989) The number of electronic gadgets in any given household now is ridiculously high, everything from TV's to computers to microwaves...
So, take into consideration that the human brain basically works via electrochemical impulses... add electromagnetic interference to that brain's development, and there's no telling what can happen. Is there any way to test this theory? Somehow I doubt it. I do not think it would be possible at this point to have a "control" group. Even something as simple as a lightbulb has an electromagnetic field.
I also have to think that some of it is a genetic predisposition toward being "wired" differently. I can name at least half a dozen people related to me who have all or most of the "symptoms" of either classic autism or Aspergers to varying degrees of severity. I have other aquaintences who can report similar claims.
As far as vaccines being a cause or even a contributing factor... I'd say that yeah, why not? If you "screw with" the body's chemistry enough at a young enough age, you're bound to get some results. Again, I would have to "argue" that there is probably a genetic factor weighing in on it... otherwise why isn't every kid who's ever had a vaccine or been born in the U.S. autistic?
Another thing to take into some measure of consideration was that up until about the time of the industrial revolution, people did not eat nearly as much meat as they do now. There were no "factory farms." There was no fast food up until the mid 1950s. Genetically modified food was unheard of until recently... and nobody thinks that could play a part in all of this? It absolutely has to... but it is extremely difficult to prove because we can't see how it has altered us until several generations later when we see the effects it has on our kids and grandkids. By then, nobody is thinking that their consumption of hormone laden milk effected how their daughter's endocrine system formed in their womb. By then we're too dependent on the convenience of fast food to realize that it is literally killing us. We don't want to admit it. Not to mention how addictive it is. Studies have shown that the combination of fat and sugar in a typical fast food meal effects the same centers of the brain as heroine and is actually more addictive. (I will get the name of this study from my aunt as soon as I can.)
So, the insane amount of fast food/junk food/caffeine/sugar that my mom ate while pregnant with me could/did have a profound effect on my development... just like her mom's smoking and drinking while pregnant with her had an effect on her and her sister... and probably on me too... since at least half of my "ingredients" for life were "created" at the same time my mother's body was forming in her mother's womb. My daughters' children will be effected by what I ate and drank while pregnant with them. I have no idea how it works with boys.
All that to say... I don't think it is any one thing that causes autism in any of its forms. I would be willing to bet that it is a combination of things that is happening a lot more frequently than it did in the past.
//I’m not saying that vaccine is definitively the cause
of any of these conditions. What I am saying is that there appears to
be a surge in diagnosable illness and neurological disorders and the
only universally viable suspect is the increasing number of
vaccinations we impose on our children’s underdeveloped immune &
nervous systems.//
Nothing in your post is remotely indicative, let alone suggestive, of vaccines being a factor. Sounds like you're just anti-vaxxing for the sake of anti-vaxxing again.
@keystspf@xanga -
//So, take into consideration
that the human brain basically works via electrochemical impulses...
add electromagnetic interference to that brain's development, and
there's no telling what can happen. Is there any way to test this
theory? Somehow I doubt it. //
Are you referring to the EM field theory of consciousness?
@QuantumStorm@xanga - something along those lines. I am no expert in it, but I've been doing a lot of reading lately. Very interesting stuff.
@keystspf@xanga - Indeed, it's rather interesting. I hope more research is done into the matter.