McCarthy's son recovering from autism

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McCarthy's son recovering from autism

By Ben Wasserman

Apr 5, 2008 - 10:19:10 PM

SATURDAY April 5, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- On April 3, CNN published

an article by McCarthy and Kim Carrey about McCarthy's son,

vaccines and autism, telling the readers that vaccines caused autism in

her son, they believe children are given too many vaccines and her son

is recovering from autism by following a healthy diet and taking a

vitamin therapy. Autism, a once-rare disorder, now affects one in every

150 children in the United States and is more common than pediatric

cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.

McCarthy said she met some patients whose children had recovered from

autism or vaccine injury as they called it and started a regimen in her

son Evan including " a gluten-free, casein-free diet, vitamin

supplementation, detox of metals, and anti-fungals for yeast overgrowth

that plagued his intestines " . She attributed her son's recovery to these

" unapproved " medical treatments.

Evan, now 5, has recovered so well his doctors suspected that he was

misdiagnosed or might never have suffered autism in the first place.

McCarthy said doctors and authorities do not believe people can ever

recover from autism. In spite of her son's remarkable recovery,

McCarthy said no single member of the CDC, the American Academy of

Pediatrics or any other healthy authority has ever requested to evaluate

and understand how Evan recovered from autism.

McCarthy and Carrey suggested the reason for the indifference is that

officials and doctors don't want to open a can of worms when it comes to

the safety of vaccines. Vaccines with mercury used as a preservative

have been long suspected to be at east part of the culprit of autism.

Recently a couple in Georgia has sued the U.S. government alleging that

vaccines given their daughter Hannah Poling caused autism in her and

they won the case. The government acknowledged that Hannah's autism was

triggered by vaccines aggravating an underlying disorder.

According to McCarthy and Carrey, many parents whose children recovered

from autism through the non-conventional treatments blamed vaccines for

their children's autism. McCarthy and Carrey wrote in their article " in

the 1980s our children received only 10 vaccines by age 5, whereas today

they are given 36 immunizations, most of them by age 2. With billions of

pharmaceutical dollars, could it be possible that the vaccine program is

becoming more of a profit engine then a means of prevention? "

The authors made a point with regard of vaccinations. They said for any

drug, the government and drug companies agree that some children may

have a reaction or be allergic to certain drugs. But when it comes to

vaccines, no government officials, drug companies' officers and doctors

ever think of the possibility that some children might actually be

allergic to vaccines and they should be exempt from the state-mandated

vaccination for young children.

In the case of Hannah Poling, the U.S. government said in a leaked court

document that vaccines aggravated a rare underlying condition known as a

mitochondrial disorder that led to a brain disorder featured with autism

symptoms. The government did not admit vaccines given to the young girl

had any direct association with her autism. Evidence has merged to

suggest that mitochondrial disorders may mediate the effect of vaccine

on autism. A recent Portuguese study reported that 7.2 percent of

children with autism had also mitochondrial disorders. Some estimated

the rate of mitochondrial dysfunction in autistic children can be up to

20 percent or more, or higher in children with the regressive sub-type

of autism.

News media has recently reported that those studies have drawn the CDC

officials' attention. The triangle association among vaccines,

mitochondrial disorder and autism is a thorny issue because both the

government and drug companies have denied any link between vaccines and

autism with or without any other disorders involved.

For more information, reads

McCarthy: My son's recovery from autism March 3, 2008

<http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.html>