leaky gut and miralax

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Hi there,

I have someone with a ASD kid who uses miralax asking me to explain how

miralax could harm her kid. She is actually afraid it might have

already harmed him. She thinks he does have a leaky gut. Well, I

could not really explain it. Would someone explain it to me again, so

I can tell her please. THANKS!!

-Angi

Bonnie Juettner wrote:

Hi Marg,

I don't have the link...I just read about it in the news a few months

ago...but maybe you can find it via Google...

Bonnie

On Jan 14, 2008 12:26 AM, Marg Messick <

margmessick>

wrote:

bonnie,

I would like to see that report or find out where i can get

it. thanks marg

Bonnie Juettner <bjuettnergmail

> wrote:

It's funny how the media will jump all over a report like

this and ignore other studies that do show a correlation between

vaccines and autism. There was a study done somewhere in the Pacific

Northwest, that came out last fall, showing a connection...they

studied kids who had vaccines and kids who didn't, and found something

like a 60% greater likelihood of autism in kids who had the vaccines.

Also, I'm not sure if this is the study that was on the news last

night, but I found an NY Times report on a recent California study,

showing no difference in autism rates after thimerosal was removed. But

the report acknowledges that it was still in flu shots. I have to

wonder if they removed the kids who had flu shots from the study or

not? If not, there's a methodology problem...I mean, doctors are

recommending flu shots for young children, so even if kids weren't

getting thimerosal in their regular shots, they still may have (if

their parents opted to do flu shots) been getting them in the flu

shots.

I agree with Marge's caution, by the way, about using the Internet as a

source of information. But when it comes to vaccines, or even to the

dangers of Miralax, you don't have to rely on the web pages of

individuals or of potentially biased organizations...it's not hard

to confirm this stuff just using, for example, the CDC, the FDA,

newspapers, etc. I think it's a good practice, actually, after reading

a wild claim somewhere, to factcheck it using a variety of sources.

Bonnie

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