Children, Autism, Advice, Siblings, vaccinations, diagnosed

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Question by lagjan: What is your advice on vaccinations for children with siblings diagnosed with autism?

This question is for people who have family members, or more specifically children, who have autism. My first child was diagnosed at 2 and I recently had another child (10 days old). I want to get more insight from parents about how they feel about vaccines in regards to autism and whether or not we should put the vaccines shots on hold for younger siblings until they get older.




Best answer:

Answer by Rhianna
There is no Vaccine-autism link. If you look at the data, vaccines are quite clearly not the cause of autism. There is no connection. Data disproves any link.

There was only one paper that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, it was horribly flawed, never reproduced and has since been retracted. The main author, "Dr". Wakefield has also lost his medical licence due to, what can only be described as, dishonesty.

Evidence so far, seems to show that autism is genetic and parental age plays some role too.

Delaying vaccinations on the basis that the vaccine may in some way cause autism or some other problem, isn't logical. You are simply putting the child at risk....for no good reason.
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@ Kimmie: There is unlikely one single factor involved in sutism. But scientists DO know it isn't caused by vaccines. In the numerous studies that have been done, if there was a direct or indirect linked, it would have shown up. It hasn't.

" I believe they need to be vaccinated but not so much at one time. "

That statement is based on emotion, not scientific thought. Delaying vaccines will put a childs health at risk. Vaccines induce far less reponse that any disease that they may encounter naturally.

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