Vaccine may trigger early start of infant epilepsy

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Vaccine may trigger early start of infant epilepsyTan

Ee Lyn

Reuters

 

05/04/2010

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Childhood vaccines may trigger early onset of a

severe form of infant epilepsy, but researchers say the disorder is

ultimately caused by defective genes and lifesaving vaccines should not

be withheld from these children.

The researchers said they feared the study published in the Lancet

medical journal would scare parents away from getting their children

vaccinated but stressed the babies in the study would likely have

developed seizures within months regardless of the vaccine.

The disorder, called Dravet syndrome, generally begins with seizures

around six months of age. These children have poor language and motor

skills and difficulty relating to others.

Up to 80 percent of them have mutations in the SCN1A gene.

Anne McIntosh of the University of Melbourne’s Epilepsy Research Center

and colleagues examined the medical records of 40 Dravet syndrome

patients with the genetic mutation who had been vaccinated against

whooping cough, or pertussis.

They said 30 percent of these children developed their first seizures

within two days of receiving the vaccine but symptoms of their disorder

were no worse than the other children who had their first seizures later

on.

“In about 30 percent of people, it appears that (first seizures) came on

rather quickly after the vaccination. But the overall message is that the

outcome to the patients did not differ regardless of whether the onset of

the disorder was shortly after the vaccination, or later on,” said

McIntosh.

“These kids already had that genetic abnormality, (so) regardless of the

relationship with the vaccine, they would have actually had that disorder

happen to them anyway,” she added.

“Essentially, there is no proof that people should not be vaccinated …

from concerns about it causing the onset of that disease,” she said in a

telephone interview.

SENSITIVE ISSUE

Reports linking childhood vaccines to any sort of disorder are always

sensitive because they can result in parents refusing to get their

children vaccinated. This has caused a resurgence of dangerous diseases,

including mumps, measles and whooping cough, in Britain, the United

States and elsewhere.

In 1998 British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet,

suggesting the combined measles, mumps and rubella or MMR vaccine might

be linked to autism and bowel disease.

The assertion has been widely discredited for years, the Lancet has

withdrawn the paper and Britain’s General Medical Council has ruled

Wakefield acted dishonestly and irresponsibly.

But the damage has been done ­ the number of MMR vaccinations in the

United States and Europe plunged, prompting a resurgence of both measles

and mumps.

This Australian study by McIntosh and colleagues follows an earlier

investigation into whether the pertussis vaccine, which is routinely

given to children together with diphtheria and typhoid vaccines (DTP),

may have led to cases of encephalopathy.

The earlier investigation, led by Samuel Berkovic of the Epilepsy

Research Center at the University of Melbourne, found that 12 of 14

patients with so-called vaccine encephalopathy were actually suffering

from Dravet syndrome. Eleven of these 12 children were also found to have

the SCN1A gene variant.

In an accompanying commentary, Max Wiznitzer from the Rainbow Babies

& Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, said McIntosh’s study was

“consistent with the conclusion that outcome is determined by the

underlying disorder and not by proximity to vaccine

administration.”

Wiznitzer, who was not involved in the study, said “effective and

accurate information and communication” could help maintain public

confidence in vaccines.

 

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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