Thimerosal Linked To Autism: New Clinical Findings

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Thimerosal Linked To Autism: New Clinical Findings

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=69427

30 Apr 2007 - 19:00 PDT

 

 

The Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: Current Issues,

an authoritative journal featuring original toxicological research, has

published, " A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic

Encephalopathies

Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorders, " by Geier

and Geier (2007).

 

This new study leaves little doubt there is a direct causal link between

mercury exposure from Thimerosal-preserved biological products (vaccines and

Rho(D) products) and mercury poisoning diagnosed as an autism spectrum disorder

(ASD).

 

Thimerosal (49.55% mercury by weight) is a highly toxic mercury compound used

as a preservative in some OTC and prescription drugs, including most flu

shots given to pregnant women, infants, children, adults, and the elderly.

 

On April 19, 2007, Dr. Larry L. Needham, Chief, Organic Analytical Toxicology

Branch, CDC, announced to the US National Academy of Sciences' Institute of

Medicine that Thimerosal was among the " Chemicals Linked to ASD. "

 

Thus, Geier and Geier (2007) provide the first clinical case-series of ASD

patients that confirmed this causal role for Thimerosal-preserved drugs in

patients having a regressive ASD diagnosis.

 

The Geiers describe a case-series of eight patients who had:

 

-- a regressive ASD diagnosis,

 

-- elevated levels of androgens,

 

-- excreted significant amounts of mercury after a chelation challenge,

 

-- biochemical evidence of decreased function in their glutathione pathways,

 

-- no known significant mercury exposures except from Thimerosal-preserved

vaccines and Rho(D)-immune globulin preparations, and

 

-- alternative causes for their regressive ASDs ruled out.

 

This clinical study also found a significant dose-response relationship

between the severity of the ASD symptoms and the total mercury dose these

children

received from Thimerosal-preserved drugs.

 

Based on differential diagnosis, these patients were exposed to significant

mercury amounts from Thimerosal-preserved biologic drugs during their fetal and

neonatal development as well as between 12 and 24 months of age. Thus, these

initially normally developing children suffered mercury toxic encephalopathies

that manifested with clinical symptoms consistent with their regressive ASD

diagnosis.

 

Hence, mercury poisoning should be considered as a cause for those children

exhibiting the symptoms of an ASD in any differential diagnosis designed to

assess underlying causes.

 

Today, any parent or other healthcare provider can easily confirm whether, or

not, a non-chelated autistic child is mercury poisoned by having urinary

porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) testing run at LabCorp (Test#120980) or

Laboratoire Philippe Auguste (Urine Porphyrin Profile).

 

For additional information on UPPA testing for mercury poisoning, please

visit the " UPPA " page on CoMeD's web site, www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org .

 

Dr. King www.dr-king.com