Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
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From: JOHN on 18 May 2007 10:32 Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders Press Release Contact: For Immediate Release CoMeD Director [Rev. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364-8426] May 18, 2007 CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-997-1321] WASHINGTON, DC - In the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778637558~db=all~order=pa ge), the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania and Perinatal Societies, and the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, a new study, "A Prospective Study of Thimerosal-Containing Rho(D)-Immune Globulin Administration as a Risk Factor for Autistic Disorders," was published by Dr. Mark R. Geier (President, the Genetic Centers of America) and David A. Geier (Vice-President, the Institute of Chronic Illnesses). This new study shows that administration of Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune g lobulin preparations during pregnancy significantly increases the risk for offspring developing autistic disorders. This finding is consistent with previously published research by Dr. Amy Holmes, Mark Blaxill, and Dr. Boyd Haley in the International Journal of Toxicology (2003), and refutes the recent study funded by Johnson & Johnson (a maker of Rho(D)-immune globulins) that failed to find an association between Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulins and autistic disorders. Since the late 1980s, Rho(D)-immune globulin preparations have been routinely administered to Rh-negative women in the US during pregnancy at 28 weeks gestation, a prenatal period corresponding to damage occurring in the fetal brain, that has been associated with autistic disorders. Unfortunately, until 2001, some formulations of Rho(D)-immune globulins manufactured for the US market contained Thimerosal, a mercury-containing compound (49.6% mercury by weight). As a result, administration of Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulins exposed Rh-negative pregnant women to bolus doses of mercury ranging from 10.5 t o greater than 30 micrograms mercury per administration at critical prenatal developmental periods. In some cases, Rh-negative women received several Rho(D)-immune globulins during their pregnancy. In addition, if the fetus was Rh-positive, the mother was administered another Rho(D)-immune globulin after birth. When that infant was breastfed, then, that infant would receive another significant mercury exposure. In this new study, the researchers examined a total of 53 non-Jewish Caucasian patients with a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), born from 1987 through 2001, who prospectively presented to the Genetic Centers of America for outpatient genetic/developmental evaluations from June 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006. Imaging and laboratory testing were conducted to rule-out other causal factors for their ASDs. As race-matched controls, the frequency of Rh-negativity was determined from 926 non-Jewish Caucasian pregnant women who presented for outpatient prenatal genetics care to the Genetic Centers of America between 1980 and 1989. Children with a diagnosis of an ASD were more than twice as likely to have an Rh-negative mo ther than the controls. Each ASD patient with an Rh-negative mother was administered a Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulin during her pregnancy. These researchers concluded that their results provide insights into the causal role prenatal mercury exposure may play in some children diagnosed with autistic disorders. Note: For those who wishing to confirm, whether or not, their child is mercury poisoned, they may want to have a urine porphyrin profile analysis (UPAA) test done. For more information, visit the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD)'s web site: http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/A Prospective Study of Rho Immune Globulin as a Risk Factor for Autism1.pdf
From: JOHN on 18 May 2007 14:00 "Robert Watson" <kidsdoc2000(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:_Dl3i.31$ky6.11(a)trnddc02... > This is garbage. > > Basically, it is an ad to have a useless lab test (UPAA). > > If you ever get a half a brain, you should be able to figure it out. oh yeah, of course, how naive of me you only need 2 brain cells to see vaccine mercury is the main cause of autism maybe you have too many talking of useless tests, this is how you quacks make out mercury doesn't cause autism http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html
From: finfife on 21 May 2007 13:15 > http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html Okay. I read it. Excerpt: "... research has shown that autistic kids do not excrete mercury efficiently. The hair would not contain any measurable amounts of mercury" I've seen that study. And it puzzles me how SafeMinds has enthusiastically seized upon it in light of their own past assertions. After all, it was HIGH levels of mercury in the hair of an autistic child that launched what became SafeMinds in the first place. Check this out: http://www.thinktwice.com/Merc_Med.pdf That's SafeMinds president Lyn Redwood testifying before Congress in 2000 about how HIGH levels of mercury in her son's hair proved that mercury causes autism. "Heavy metal analysis detected 4.8 parts per million mercury in his hair, the allowable levels being less than 1 part per million... Since my son has never eaten fish nor seafood nor had dental amalgams, I had no other identifiable source for his mercury levels outside of the thimerosal exposure from his vaccines and my RhoGAM injections." That is, far from being inefficient hair excretors, it appears from her own testimony that her autistic son's hair follicles were champion mercury excretors. Cut to 2004. Here she is again testifying before Congress in 2004, this time claiming that LOW levels of mercury in the hair of autistics is proof that mercury causes autism. http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/press_releases/redwoodsafemindssept8testimonyfullfinal.pdf Okay. So which is it? Can our autistic kids excrete mercury, or can't they? And what does it prove if they can or can't? I asked David Kirby this question at local forum where he was flogging his book (Evidence of Harm). He couldn't explain it. All he could do was lamely restate the obvious and scientifically meaningless observation that "some autistic kids have high levels, and some have low". Uh huh. And he might just as well have added "... and some have normal levels". Like my autistic son. Prediction: a study will find that distribution of hair mercury levels in autistic kids matches the distribution in other kids, and SafeMinds will come up with a theory about how THAT proves mercury causes autism. Not only is SafeMinds selective about which facts it accepts, it actively discards inconvenient facts that it previously accepted -- even facts that the organization was built on in the first place -- not because those facts themselves are incorrect, but simply because those facts contradict their latest theory. That's bad science. But it evidently takes more the 2 brain cells to recognize that.
From: Peter Bowditch on 22 May 2007 00:06 "JOHN" <john(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > >"Robert Watson" <kidsdoc2000(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:_Dl3i.31$ky6.11(a)trnddc02... >> This is garbage. >> >> Basically, it is an ad to have a useless lab test (UPAA). >> >> If you ever get a half a brain, you should be able to figure it out. > >oh yeah, of course, how naive of me > >you only need 2 brain cells to see vaccine mercury is the main cause of >autism Not according to Dr Wakefield. Have you told him he is wrong? > >maybe you have too many > >talking of useless tests, this is how you quacks make out mercury doesn't >cause autism http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html > -- Peter Bowditch aa #2243 The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles Australian Council Against Health Fraud http://www.acahf.org.au Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com
From: JOHN on 23 May 2007 11:58
<finfife(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1179767736.600247.11600(a)b40g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html > > That's SafeMinds president Lyn Redwood testifying before Congress in > 2000 about how HIGH levels of mercury in her son's hair proved that > mercury causes autism. > > > Cut to 2004. Here she is again testifying before Congress in 2004, > this time claiming that LOW levels of mercury in the hair of autistics > is proof that mercury causes autism. > > http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/press_releases/redwoodsafemindssept8testimonyfullfinal.pdf > Assuming you are right. So what? Does that mean mercury is safe and doesn't cause autism? |