Growth charts available on web

[Guest guest]

Listmates,

A lot of you heard Andy Wakefield at the San Diego DAN conference talk

about how he found a slow-down of growth or weight in children after their

MMR that showed up again with MMR booster shots. I think this dip (or

crossing percentile rankings to lower rankings) is a pretty good indicator

for when the chemistry in these children really went awry. Since my own

daughter had a slump we didn't recognize at the time, but which is terribly

obvious on the growth chart, I think it is a worthwhile thing not to assume

this was normal, but instead to collect this information from your child's

medical record from all those well-baby office visits, and supplement it,

perhaps, with your own wall chart if you had one and can supply the

gaps. This way, you can see if you can tell when this slump occurred or if

it did occur. The school might have a record, too. I know they measured

heights at Grace's preschool.

It may be that watching growth charts may be a very valuable tool for

prevention...that children with these slumps may be poor risks for

immunization until there growth normalizes, or something such. We will

know far more if we can compare notes among ourselves...

The CDC has a powerpoint version of the relevant growth charts available at

the following website:

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/

I'm sure a lot of parents would enjoy hearing from other parents how many

other children crossed into lower percentiles at certain ages. This is

concrete data that is hard to argue with as far as observer bias!

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Just for the record my son went from the TOP of the growth chart, 90th % to

below the curve, one straight line down, in 4 months!! I was livid, and

panicky, and would you believe I was told " well you are short, so is your

husband, his growth has just slowed " It is still painful to look at what

happened to him from 15 - 19 months. He didn't catch up until last year when

we started gfcf and chelation, he took off growing and hasn't stopped. at

age 6 he was wearing size 4 clothing, while my NT child at 6 was wearing

size 8! Today at age 9 he is about the same as his peers, but that is

because he gained 15 lbs last year and grew almost 7 inches. No I don't

think it would have happened anyway.............hum do we need to start a

new poll on this?

[ ] Growth charts available on web

> Listmates,

>

> A lot of you heard Andy Wakefield at the San Diego DAN conference talk

> about how he found a slow-down of growth or weight in children after their

> MMR that showed up again with MMR booster shots. I think this dip (or

> crossing percentile rankings to lower rankings) is a pretty good indicator

> for when the chemistry in these children really went awry. Since my own

> daughter had a slump we didn't recognize at the time, but which is

terribly

> obvious on the growth chart, I think it is a worthwhile thing not to

assume

> this was normal, but instead to collect this information from your child's

> medical record from all those well-baby office visits, and supplement it,

> perhaps, with your own wall chart if you had one and can supply the

> gaps. This way, you can see if you can tell when this slump occurred or

if

> it did occur. The school might have a record, too. I know they measured

> heights at Grace's preschool.

>

> It may be that watching growth charts may be a very valuable tool for

> prevention...that children with these slumps may be poor risks for

> immunization until there growth normalizes, or something such. We will

> know far more if we can compare notes among ourselves...

>

> The CDC has a powerpoint version of the relevant growth charts available

at

> the following website:

>

> http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/

>

> I'm sure a lot of parents would enjoy hearing from other parents how many

> other children crossed into lower percentiles at certain ages. This is

> concrete data that is hard to argue with as far as observer bias!

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