REPORT ON CONFERENCE ON AUTISM

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REPORT ON " CONFERENCE ON AUTISM "

April 15th, 2007

Organised by Institute of Health Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

Report by: Jagannath Chatterjee.

 

On 15th April a " Conference on Autism " was conducted at Hotel Presidency,

Bhubaneswar, under the auspices of Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), an

institute devoted to providing training on various aspects of rehabilitation

technology. The Institute also provides services to persons with disability..

It has been treating all kinds of speech, language, hearing and behavioural

disorders since 1999. Training is offered in areas of Audiology, Speech,

Pathology and Physiotherapy by way of two 4 and 4 1/2 years degree courses with

affiliation from Utkal University.The fact that it treats children with

special needs prompted it to address the needs of autistic children.

 

The conference sought to educate medical professionals like Pediatricians,

General Physicians, Neurologists, Neurologists, Psychiatrists and

Psychologists. Parents of autistic children were also invited so that they could

equip

themselves with latest developments in the field of treatment and

rehabilitation of the unfortunate victims.

 

An eminent panel addressed the assembly. It was composed of Dr Rajendra

Satpathy, a very senior ENT specialist, Director of IHS, Prof Satya Mohapatra,

Dr

S P Mokashi, Astt Professor (OT), NIRTAR, Cuttack, Dr Pratibha of NIMHANS,

Dr Arun Mukherjee, MD, Director of UDAAN, Delhi, and Ms Bhuyan, Psychologist.

Dr Sarangi of IHS assisted the resource persons with their presentations.

 

In his opening speech, Prof Satya Mohapatra, explained the syndrome called

autism. He said many children today were behaving abnormally despite seeming

outwardly normal. The IHS has been flooded with such children whom it is

trying to help through a coordinated approach involving specialists from

various

fields and using the latest technology available.

The reason behind autism is not very clear, he said, which is hampering the

progress of patients. Often it is felt that individualised attention is

needed as the children suffer from a wide variety of complaints which has

forced

the medical community to name the condition " Autism Spectrum Disorder " .

 

Explaining further he said that these children lived in a world of their

own. They do not play with others and may suffer delayed development in various

spheres. There is a considerable amount of brain damage in these children

making treatment very slow and difficult. As these children are unable to speak

or communicate it is very difficult to judge the extent of damage as well as

pain. That autism affected the senses and emotions was well documented, he

said.

They needed constant therapy involving speech, behavioral psychotherapy,

locomotor therapy and also occupational therapy to help improve their

functional

skills. However even with all these the children would probably never be

able to recover fully to the satisfaction of their parents. Hence the emphasis

should be on determining the cause and prevent this fast progressing epidemic.

He hoped that the eminent doctors invited to address the medical

professionals would be able to shed light on better modes of diagnosis and

treatment.

 

Dr S P Mokashi of NIRTAR, then described autism as a very common childhood

disorder found across all sections of society today. Children everywhere were

being diagnosed as autistics, falling within the autism spectrum which

included Pervasive Development Disorders (PDDs).

It is a very complex and baffling disorder with a wide continuum of

associated cognitive and neurobehavioural disorders. These children also suffer

from

impaired socialisation, and impaired verbal and non verbal communication.. It

is very difficult to understand these children as they suffer from a very

complex brain disorder which affected the way they percieved both people and

objects.

 

He dwelt on various therapies that were being used by doctors and scientists

at NIRTAR. He showed a video of a patient about seven years old and

undergoing treatment since the last five years. The child still appeared

severely

affected displaying repetitive activities and also acting as if no one else was

present in the room. He was indifferent to the efforts of others trying to

communicate with him.

Dr Mokashi said the illness was very disturbing and affected the morale of

the attending staff as recovery was extremely slow. Often staff had to be

rotated as they suffered from acute depression arising out of their failure at

tackling the disabilities of the children. He said something was very wrong

with these children and it was difficult to pinpoint the cause. It defied all

existing medical knowledge.

 

Next it was the turn of Dr Arun Mukherjee, MD, and Director of UDAAN, an

organisation in New Delhi solely devoted to the cause of treating children with

disabilities. Dr Mukherjee is a very senior doctor having served as a Medical

Adviser to many pharmaceutical giants of repute.

He is also an expert at various trend breaking laboratory techniques. He is

now trying to devise a protocol aimed at treating autistic children. He has

already devised a treatment methodology which has been submitted to the Indian

Government for study and subsequent approval.

He said he hoped that the Drugs Controller of India would give the go ahead

to his project. He hinted that he had faced many obstacles of various nature

while trying to help the children. He was helped in his work by eminent

doctors in the US who went out of their way to ensure that the children of

India

received treatment.

 

He too expressed deep concern at the explosion of autism cases engulfing the

world at a fantastic pace. He said autism had progressed from 1 in 10,000 to

1 in 150 in the US. In the UK, it was 1 in 80. In India it was 1 in 500 as

per a 2005 survey but it was found to be 1 in 250 in 2006. This meant that a

total of more than a crore children could be affected.

He however cautioned against accepting this figure to be correct as the

survey was not able to fully target the desired population and that 99.9% of

doctors in India were not trained to detect and treat autism. He said that

autism

was just a paragraph in the entire medical literature but efforts were on to

trace the genetic cause of the disease.

 

Speculating on the cause of autism he said it could be a result of genetic

predisposition as well as heavy metal poisoning. Mercury could be the real

culprit he said as the symptoms were exactly similar to the famous Minnamata

poisoning in Japan as well as the Iraq epidemic caused by using mercury laced

fungicides in wheat given as aid by a donor country.

Minnamata disease was first discovered in Japan in the late fifties as a

result of mercury pollution of a marine bay. It was studied extensively and the

results are available to the medical community.

The mercury exposure, he said, could be through environmental pollution,

industrial pollution, mining activities, hospital waste, dental amalgams,

mercury in vaccines and in certain eye drops. Prima facie it appears that it is

the

mercury in vaccines which may be the real culprit.

Each vaccine exposes the infant to 25mcg of mercury which is way beyond

safety limits. As per safety limits set by EPA the infant would have to weigh

550

pounds to tolerate a single shot. The vaccination schedule, he informed,

pushed 249.5mcg of mercury into the infant, a dose that cannot be called safe

by

any standards.

He said there was an urgent need to remove mercury from vaccines and dental

amalgams. He asked the parents to be more informed and examine the vaccine

vial label as well as the package insert. If the words Thiomersal and Aluminum

was mentioned in the label it would be prudent to skip the shot. The parent

should decide on what vaccine to be given to the child taking into

consideration the risk factors.

He wondered how infants were being vaccinated. It took twelve years for a

child to develop somewhat, he said. The mercury the child received in the

mothers womb, as a result of vaccinating the pregnant mother, was enough to

render

the child autistic. He said it would be prudent to examine the child at the

age of 7 to 8 months. If the child did not turn its eyes when called it could

mean that it was already autistic.

He said that older people were given only one or two vaccines when they were

children. But now it was strange that doctors warned of impending doom if

the entire course of around 30 to 40 shots were not given. As there is no means

to determine the genetic susceptibility of the child, the entire vaccine

process had become unduly risky.

But he said certain vaccines were necessary. If the figure of autism was 1

in 150, it meant that 149 children were being protected and one child was

being sacrificed to keep the rest healthy. The affected child must be helped to

recover without blaming fate or any other agency. Disease was inevitable and

has to be fought with the latest knowledge available.

The decontaminant Thiomersal in vaccines is composed of ethylmercury. The

warnings against mercury were based on methylmercury. It is generally argued

that ethylmercury is safer than methylmercury. But tests have revealed that

ethylmercury is 1000 times more toxic than methylmercury. The entire audience

gasped, terribly shocked by this revelation.

He also wondered about the side effects of the MMR. A parent informed him

that both his children were injected with MMR on the same day. One became

autistic but the other escaped unscathed. He said MMR did not contain mercury..

Moreover as they were brothers they would share the same genes. How then could

the offered explanation of combination of genetic susceptibility and heavy

metal poisoning be accepted?

Dr Mukherjee said that researchers were very cautious and even scared as the

doctor who wanted to study the link between MMR and autism, Dr Andrew

Wakefield, was driven out of UK for daring to question vaccines and he had to

take

shelter in the US. But his findings were not wrong as the measles vaccine

strain virus was indeed found in the guts of the autistic children the doctor

had examined.

Upon being prodded by another victim, he said there was a great debate

raging worldwide on the vaccine issue. The parents are questioning the very

concept of vaccines. The medical community seems indifferent to the opposition

but

in reality the dangers are well known.

He spoke about the Simsonwood Conference which was held in utter secrecy in

the US. The dangers of ethylmercury was discussed but no action has been

taken because the WHO and other bodies do not have enough funds to render all

vaccines mercury free. Thus these organisations as well as the Govt's were

forced to continue with the risk to save the majority of children from vaccine

preventable diseases.

Dr Mukherjee agreed that diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox etc

were nowhere as dangerous as autism which affected the soul of the child. Thus

parental education and interference in the vaccination process was very

necessary, he said.

On being asked why doctors were not fighting the vaccines he said that it

was for the political machinery to do that. There is also a question of ethics

which each doctor should be aware of said the visibly angry parents.

Dr Mukherjee also pointed out that autism cases were on the decline in

certain states of the US where mercury in vaccines was being drastically

reduced.

He also presented graphs which showed that autism had peaked worldwide as

more and more vaccines were included into the schedule.

Mercury in vaccines cannot be wished away, he said. The future generation

would face great misfortune due to this needless mass poisoning akin to

genocide. He said old men like him were sad that such a thing was happening

silently

and unopposed. Except for the parents, victims, therapists and an activist

here and there no one seemed to be genuinely interested. An ostrich like

attitude was being adopted.

Dr Rajendra Satpathy, Director of IHS, was visibly annoyed and upset. He

felt sorry that doctors were no longer acting like human beings. He was of the

opinion that this situation had to be urgently addressed. There is already a

catastrophe of immense proportions. MNCs should no longer be allowed to dump

mercury containing vaccinations into India, he said. Prof Satya Mohapatra and

Dr Mokashi nodded in agreement. The issue of vaccines had to be publicly

debated they said.

Dr Pratibha of NIMHANS sarcastically pointed out that Autism was not a

developmental disorder but a Deviant Disorder. Rarely were children autistic

from

birth but regressed at a certain age. It was upto the medical community to

come out with the facts and the real reasons, she said.

Ms Bhuyan, talked about the psychological interventions which could be

resorted to in order to help the affected child. She pointed out that medically

autism was being tackled with psychiatric drugs. The doctors present pointed

out that this did not address the underlying problem and did more harm than

good.

Dr Arun Mukherjee then dwelt upon the methods he intended to use to help the

children. He said that he would try the DAN protocol, the MB12 vitamin

therapy, Chelation (heavy metal extraction) and also the HBOT therapy. He

appealed

to the physiotherapists to continue with their efforts as these children

needed all kinds of help.

He said he would try and inform the parents of low cost therapies as the

cost of full scale medical intervention would be beyond even the very rich in

India. Upon being asked about Govt intervention, compensation and subsidies, Dr

Mukherjee again put the ball at the feet of the political machinery. He said

he was ready to offer treatment on cost basis but he was sure that very few

parents could afford the treatment. The vast majority of the children were

thus doomed to a life of living hell.

He spoke of dietary interventions like a GFCF diet. This was the Gluten

Free, Casein Free diet where the child was taken off wheat, barley and oats.

They

were also denied milk and other diary products, ice creams, pastries, cakes,

biscuits and sugar. He said these were opium to the children who would show

severe withdrawal symptoms once this diet was commenced. But the parents had

to be firm and after 4 to 6 weeks the child would start improving. The very

appearance of withdrawal symptoms would mean that the treatment was on the

right track.

He said vitamin supplementation was essential as the autistics suffered from

gut problems. The guts contained more nerve endings than the brain. The

abdomen is the primeval brain. What makes autism so difficult and dangerous is

that almost the entire nervous system is affected.

As the intestines were damaged and inflamed the child was not able to get

the proper nutrition thus leaving it malnourished. There was also a severe and

irreparable damage to the liver that few doctors were able to diagnose as

there was no swelling or sensitiveness. The child therefore suffered from

reduced or no appetite. The gut problems also allowed unwanted toxins back into

the

body instead of being eliminated.

The above indicated that more children were damaged than are being

diagnosed.

He proposed the following:

AVOID

Barley, Oats, Wheat

Milk and milk products

Pastries, Cakes, Biscuits

Sugar, Chocolate

Eggs, Citrus fruits.

GIVE

Vit C (As tablets, because citrus fruits had to be denied)

Vit E (Natvie of Franco India)

Carotenoids (Fresh Fruits, multicolored salads)

Selenium

Vitamin B6

Zinc, Iron, Magnesium (NOT COPPER)

Alpha Lipoic Acid (IF THERE ARE NO GUT PROBLEMS)

Melatonin (Melocet - 1/3rd of a tablet)

What is not readily available in India is Glutathione and Torine Amino

Acid.. (However the above vitamins helped manufacture glutathione in the body).

The above regimen should be tried for three months. The child should also be

tested for heavy metals in an accredited laboratory. The less the metals

found in hair and nails the MORE serious was the internal poisoning as the

child

was not able to extract the metals and was retaining them.

MB12 TREATMENT

This is actually a type of Vit B12 micronutrient that is deficient in

autistic children. The children are depleted of various minerals, vitamins and

essential micronutrients as their bodies exhaust all resources in trying to

fight

the heavy metals injected into them.

The MB12 has the ability to activate the methionin/homocystein biochemical

pathway directly thus allowing the children to return to this world. Banana

has traces of this micronutrient.

HBOT

This is a technique whereby the child is placed in a pressure chamber where

the pressure is greatly increased to force more oxygen into the body and

brain.

CHELATION

This involves injecting the child by a heavy metal extraction agent called

DMPS. Injected at intervals over a long period of time the child would excrete

a large quantity of the metals. Dr Mukherjee said THE IMPROVEMENT WAS

DRAMATIC USING THIS THERAPY. The child simply becomes his old self again. But

the

treatment costs would put this therapy out of the reach of Indian children

UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO BEAR THE COSTS OF TREATMENT.

The damaging effects of heavy metals were available on the internet said Dr

Mukherjee. But this information has been erased from medical sites. One had

to access sites dealing with toxic waste like TOXLINE to get the required

information. Thus it became clear that extremely toxic materials are being

injected into children in the name of " strengthening their immune system " .

The list of heavy metals that are usually found in the tissues and fat of

autistic children are;

Ethylmercury (1000 times more toxic than Methylmercury)

Aluminum (from vaccines again)

Lead (from petrol fumes in environment, fertilisers)

Cadmium (from contaminated groundwater)

Copper (industrial waste)

Arsenic (pesticides that is polluting groundwater)

Tin

Antimony

Dr Mukherjee said autism experts from all over the world would be converging

at New Delhi in the month of September to address the problem in India, and

hopefully to put some sense and inculcate some ethics into the medical and

political establishment.

When questioned by this reporter, angry parents were vocal with complaints

that they regularly faced threats from some doctors whenever they brought up

the vaccine issue. These doctors threaten to stop treating the children and

accuse them of spreading " rumours " that go against the " national interest " . Is

it in the " national interest " that small babies should be killed and poisoned

en masse, they asked.

This reporter is marking a copy of this report to our Honorable President,

HE Shri Abdul Kalam, the Prime Minister, Sri Manmohan Singh, and also Ms Sonia

Gandhi hoping that the urgent needs of these hapless victims may be

addressed.

The media too has a responsibility, we may add. It can enter into the

private lives of individuals in search of titillating news but shirks from

reporting this very public and widespread mayhem.

Where are we headed as a society? Can we not protect small children?

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jagchat01

Note: This is merely a report and the suggestions for treatment reported

must be resorted to by consulting an accredited doctor.

US: 1 in 104 children has Autism

US: 1 in 6 children suffers a developmental disorder

New Jersey: 1 in 94 has Autism

UK: 1 in 58 has Autism

China : Over 20 lakh autistic children,

India : No authentic figures, expected 95 lakh +

AUTISM IS PREDOMINANTLY MERCURY POISONING.

THERE IS MERCURY IN VACCINES!!

 

" The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and

ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization.....There is

no

convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with

eliminating any childhood disease. " --Dr Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

" The frequently long time frame between getting a vaccine and developing

autoantibodies as a result can make it hard to cast such

associations as cause and effect. Still, the data we do have clearly shows

that certain autoimmune diseases such as Guillain-Barre sundrome and type 1

diabetes can be triggered by vaccines. Is it so surprsing then to consider

that others can be as well? " -

Quote from the book The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire by Donna

Jackson Nakazawa (2008 edition).