"Back in the Day", (1950's & 60's), when I was in school, we would have been appalled if some kid had said they were allergic to peanut butter. One of my brothers had asthma, and he was the only one I ever knew in 12 years of school. Out of a student body of about 500, we had one girl who had diabetes, and her parents both had it. So, my question is: why are so many allergies, autism, diabetes, so common in today's grade school kids?
Obesity is said to be one cause of the diabetes increase, and I understand that TV, Video games, and computers are big contributors to the obesity plague, but what's up with the rise in all these other problems ?
Measles, Mumps, and Mono', we're pretty much a given back then, all kids had them, and sometimes a lot of us had them at once, but I think we were much healthier in general than today's kids are, So,..What's up ? First of all, asthma and autism are related to each other. The increase can be explained by the fact that both are statistically associated with caesarean birth, which has also risen dramatically in recent years because it has become safer than natural child birth in even slightly difficult cases.
http://www.wombecology.com/caesareans.ht...
Secondly; although asthma has a lot to do with autism, it has very little to do with environmental toxins. Most people with really severe hay fever don't have asthma. It's an autistic symptom in itself. It harks back to the birth trauma. When a baby is being born, attempting to breath will kill him. After he is born, if he doesn't breath he will die. Asthma is a regression to the moment of decision. A study at Johns Hopkins clinic discovered that asthma is caused by the inability to relax the bronchia while taking a deep breath, and deep breath is what normally helps to clear congestion during allergy attacks. With asthma, though, deep breaths actually trigger a contraction of the bronchia making the allergy attack worse. In other words, asthma attacks are actually neurotic symptoms.
Here is a copy of the study:
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October 30, 1995
Section: MAIN NEWS
Edition: AM
Page: A1
LUNG MUSCLE IMPLICATED IN ASTHMATICS' WHEEZING
John Hendren, Associated Press
Asthmatics wheeze because their lung muscles can't relax,
not because of irritants in the air, a new study suggests.
''If that is the case, then we can probably detect it very
early on, before people develop asthma,'' said Dr. Alkis
Togias of Johns Hopkins Medical Center, who presents the
findings in the November issue of The Journal of Clinical
Investigation.
In an asthma attack, the smooth muscles that line the
lungs contract, blocking the passage of air and leaving
victims gasping for breath.
Scientists have thought the muscles contract because of an
unusual reaction to irritants or allergens, such as airborne
pollen or pollutants.
Togias and a team of Hopkins researchers believe asthmatics
and nonasthmatics alike have the same air-blocking reaction
to lung irritation. But they contend asthmatics have a second
problem: lung muscles that cannot relax normally.
''We suspect that nonasthmatics overcome this reaction by using
deep breaths to relax the muscles and open up the air passages
and that asthmatics lack this ability,'' Togias said.
''It is definitely not the conventional wisdom,'' said
Dr. Michael Kaliner, medical director of the Institute for
Asthma and Allergy at the Washington Hospital Center, who
had not seen the study.
``When you and I take a deep breath, our muscles stay relaxed.
But when an asthmatic takes a deep breath the muscles do contract.''
The researchers tested their theory by making nonasthmatics
wheeze as asthmatics do. The researchers gave nonasthmatics
the inhalant drug, methacholine, which acts as an irritant and
causes breathing problems in asthmatics. Then they told the
volunteers not to breathe deeply.
The result: Nonasthmatics developed asthma-like breathing problems.
''This is just the reaction we would expect if asthma is caused by
an impairment of muscle relaxation triggered by deep breaths,''
Togias said.
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As for juvenile diabetes, that is another issue. It is not an autistic symptom. it's a symptom of cheap fattening food doctored to taste really good. Diet and pollution (of all sorts--atmospheric, environmental, pharmaceutical, etc...) with heavy metals.
We have f**ked our children. Back in the 50s we did not live in air conditoned houses, have a tv, computer, ect. ect. we all played outside, playing tag, or climbing trees, running swimming ect. we also had chores to do, and did them if we didnt want a whoppin. we had sit down breakfast, lunch and supper together. if you were late you didnt eat. we also were made to take naps, and behave when we had company. ALL that has gone out the window, and now everyone does their own thing. INDOORS, fat dumb and so called happily depressed, obease, and diabetic, and alergic. So , want it all to change? Its easy turn off everything, open the windows, throw the kids outside, make 3 regular meals, make em do there chores, and a good whoopin never hurt no one. Ha, Ha, let us all bringit back. There are theories about how the increase in these conditions is related to the increase in various pollutions, the increase of various dyes and other additives in food, and the DECREASE in overall activity.
I think there might be something to them: For a while I had a horse that had to be cared for every day, rain or shine. And except for once when I had a bout of flu, I was never sick. Allergies, Asthma, Autism and AD(H)D are all related. You may be interested in the book on this topic by Dr. Kenneth Bock, "The New Childhood Epidemics." We are poisening our children-This doctor says it better than I could.
Harold Buttram, M.D.
As one of today鈥檚 senior citizens who grew up in a Midwestern state in the 1930s, and as a doctor who has treated many children, I may have a special vantage point of time and experience in regard to the changes that have taken place in the health of America鈥檚 children since the relatively innocent times of the 1930s. At summer camps in the New Mexico Mountains that I was fortunate to attend, no boy had allergies, none was on medication, and no boy was ever sick with the common ailments of today. It was much the same in schools. I don鈥檛 recall ever seeing a child with easily recognized behaviors now described as hyperactivity (ADHD) or autism.
Today in stark contrast, approximately one third of our youngsters are afflicted with the 4-A Disorders (Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies), as described and documented by Dr. Kenneth Bock.(1) School budgets are being strained to the breaking points in providing special education classes for autistic and learning disabled children. Allergy problems are proliferating, as indicated by long lines of children at school nursing stations for their noontime medications.
Could today鈥檚 infant and childhood vaccine programs, with their steadily increasing numbers of vaccines, be a contributory cause of this ominous health trend? As reflected in the U.S. Congressional Hearings (1999 to Dec., 2004) on issues of vaccine safety, in which major deficiencies in vaccine safety testing were disclosed, it is a real possibility that vaccines may be one of the major, if not the major cause of this trend.(2)
Epidemiologic surveys from four widely separated geographic areas found that fully vaccinated children had significantly more allergic disorders than those with limited or no vaccines.(3-6)
Although public health officials remain in denial about a causal relation between the mercurial vaccine preservative, Thimerosal, and the current epidemic of autism, the facts remain irrefutable. Thimerosal has now been removed from most vaccines, but in the 1990s, when the incidence of childhood autism peaked, infants commonly received up to 100-times the safe dose of mercury (according to current EPA and FDA standards) at 2 months age, again at 4 months, and again at 6 months.(7)
Although Thimerosal has been largely removed from vaccines (with exception of some flu and most tetanus booster vaccines), new cases of autism are still emerging. The probable reason may be the ever-increasing number of vaccines given during infancy.(8) From the standpoint of infants鈥?immune systems, giving seven or eight vaccines together on three separate occasions during infancy might be comparable with the infants鈥?immune systems being faced with seven or eight diseases at the same time. There is little wonder that their immune as well as nervous systems commonly run amuck under such challenges.
A survey commissioned by Generation Rescue compared vaccinated and unvaccinated in nine counties in Oregon and California. Among more than 9,000 boys age 4-17, the survey found vaccinated boys were two and a half times (155%) more likely to have neurological disorders than their unvaccinated peers. For older vaccinated boys in the 11-17 age bracket, the results were even more pronounced, with 158% more likely to have neurological disorders, 317% more likely to have ADHD, and 112% more likely to have autism.(9)
According to this observer, it appears that we are undergoing an unprecedented national tragedy with no end in sight. How could this possibly be happening?
To answer this question I will cite two little-noted studies published many years ago. The first was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1984.(10) In this study a significant though temporary drop of T-helper lymphocytes was found in 11 healthy adults following routine tetanus booster vaccinations. Special concern rests in the fact that in four of the eleven subjects their T-lymphocytes fell to levels seen in active AIDS patients. If this was the result of a single vaccine in healthy adults, it is sobering to think of possible consequences from today鈥檚 multiple vaccines routinely administered to infants. And yet, to the best of my knowledge, this study has never been repeated. In a similar fashion A.L.Low (Chicago, 1955) performed before and after EEGs on 83 children before and after pertussis immunization.(11) In two of these children he found abnormal EEGs without other signs or symptoms of abnormal reactions.
These two studies, showing clear evidence that significant immunologic and neurological consequences can take place even with single vaccines, do not constitute proof of harm from vaccines, but they are important clues. What they do prove is an ongoing pattern of negligence of many years in following up on these and other similar studies.
Almost totally lacking until now, the great need is for definitive before-and-after tests specifically designed to search for possible adverse effects of vaccines on the neurological and immune systems as well as genetics of our children, and in finding adverse effects, to make appropriate safety modifications in vaccine programs. Based on personal experience, alerting authorities to this need has been like trying to start a fire with wet kindling. Yet our very survival as a society may be involved in this specific issue
In my opinion, the time is long overdue for a total rethinking and redirecting of current childhood vaccine programs. Until the safety of such programs can be assured by thorough and dependable safety testing, any further mandating of childhood vaccines will remain morally and ethically untenable.
Harold Buttram, MD, FAACP Larry L stated, "First of all, asthma and autism are related to each other. The increase can be explained by the fact that both are statistically associated with cesarean birth, which has also risen dramatically in recent years because it has become safer than natural child birth in even slightly difficult cases."
I think we should be very careful about using this article and research as a reference. By the authors own admission, the studies have not been duplicated. Also, from what I read, many of the children diagnosed later with Autism/ASD had difficult births. By definition what is a difficult birth other than having an AP-GAR of below 5 or 7? The author eludes to the child not taking his/her breath right away and he also states that this is a result of the lack of the "primal birth." But who is to say that it is not a virus. What about the research that shows that many of these disorders are genetically influenced? What about the research that states that more than boys than girls are affected by the disorder of Autism? This article doesn't even address this research.
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