Can a Vaccine Cause Autism? | Autism Video Lecture | Understanding and Treating Autism - Health & Fitness

so a commonly asked question and a big
concern from parents --is do vaccines
cause autism now this is controversial
and hard but as per the research and as
per what we have from the American
Academy there's no direct correlation of
vaccines causing autism however concern
that I do respect when a parent comes
and tells me my child had for example
the MMR vaccine who had a particular
vaccine at 18 months and seemed to have
developed symptoms after that well
typically autism regression also happens
around 18 to 24 months that's when we do
see that is there something that we need
to be researching more absolutely we do
know that kids have immune dysfunction
or immune issues you do not want to
vaccinate a child when they are sick
with a cold the only case where a
vaccination was caused symptoms in a
child with who developed autism kind of
symptoms was when a child had a
mitochondrial disorder now we do know
children with autism have mitochondrial
dysfunction but there's not a
correlation of vaccination causing
autism per se I do think vaccination is
very important for children we don't
want outbreaks taking place of measles
and polio etc etc because vaccinations
are protective one of the concerns
however that was in the past was
regarding mercury as a preservative in
in vaccines which has now been removed I
think the number of vaccinations that
were being given and the total level of
mercury added on became to a toxic level
mercury has been removed from vaccines
we now have aluminum the other concern
that parents have particularly when they
have a child with autism is they may
want to use a vaccine that is
preservative free but there's not enough
data on that I think it's reasonable for
physicians to work with parents with
their anxieties give them the
information and yet work with families
because you're dealing with parents who
are really very so much impacted by
what's happening with their child and we
need to do a lot more research even
though we don't have diary
cause and effect information and there
really is no direct data on this however
lots more research needs to be done and
even with a child who has a neurologic
impairment we do alter the vaccine
schedule as we do with a child who has
fever one of the things I would
recommend though and that's my personal
recommendation is when you do vaccinate
a child do not use Tylenol
for the fever use an anti-inflammatory
because Tylenol is harder on the liver
and if a child has mitochondrial issues
for example or low glutathione which is
the antioxidant that you need to do
process toxins and preservatives etc
let's support the liver and a lot of
parents do that by giving their kids
vitamin C for as an antioxidant or
making sure that they are well and I
think that's very important