Comments on: The truth about autism: It’s not toxic

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:05:24 +0000

@Ari H,

clearly I still have a lot to learn! Many thanks.

By: Ari H.

Ari H. — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:56:37 +0000

Ms. Chew, Where did you learn to write? It’s unbearable to try and read your writing. Take this for example. It’s a sentence that goes absolutely no where.

“The truth about autism is our children who have autism—autistic persons themselves—and the daily round of joys and struggles that they go through, and that parents of autistic children try very hard to understand.”

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:46:29 +0000

Mrs. Chew
Your very wrong when you say that most our here because they believe that mercury in the vaccination shots didnt cause there childs autism. My sons name is Ryan and he turned 9 years old March 30,2007 and was perfectly healthy until his last shots of MMR and DTaP shots containing Mercury. He was accepted to the National Vaccine Act in April of 2004. If the CDC was 100 percent sure and if you are 100 percent sure that mercury that is contained in the vaccination shots used only as a perservative of the shots doesnt cause nuerological disorder such as autism. Please show me proof not even the CDC can show you proof that the thermisol shots containing mercury doesnt cause autism. You stated that your son charlie is an only child so what other children of your own do you have it to compare it to? I have 3 kids so i do know the difference all my kids have the same father and my other 2 children are completely healthy and have had them tested so its not genetically linked. I live with my child everyday and i know how he was before he was given his last set of shots. Which since he received them i have not allowed him to receive anymore shots being he has been in the Thermisol mercury civil suit since he was 3 yrs of age. I would recommend that parents do get Non-thermisol shots for there children if they insist on getting there children the MMR and DTaP shots before the age of 3 yrs of age. Its a hard road and only gets harder the older your child gets. I would walk thru fire for my child like im sure every parent would. I have fought for every service my child receives and thats not counting i also have Muscular Dystrophy myself. But as you know when you have a child with severe autism you have to think of 50 yrs from now when your not around. “How will my son make it when i am no longer able to care for him?” My son Ryan is nonverbal, not potty trained, has an IQ of 20 and is in the age group between 12 and 24 months with an attention span of 60 seconds. I am the only voice that can speak for him and yes i can be very verbal and very impatient with people that treat you like you are ignorant to the needs and the well being of a child you spend every waking moment thinking about and taking care of like a baby. But until we have hard evidence we cant rule nothing out and take away the things that are being questioned like mercury for example and see if it slows down children from developing this awful debilitating disease we call A-U-T-I-S-M.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:15:15 +0000

Better understanding of autism; increased ability to detect and identify autism among parents and professionals—-one could say that there is an “epidemic of discovery about autism” today.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:05:22 +0000

If mercury is the “cause” of autism, then why all the new diagnosis if they have removed the mercury from the vaccines?

By: Kassiane

Kassiane — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:13:56 +0000

Geier and Geier aren’t a credible source. The journal they were published in retracted them, and the whole testosterone thing was based on test tube conditions that can’t occur in humans (unless you have hot benzene running through you, I sure don’t).

And younger Geier, for some perspective, is my age. His training isn’t medical in any way. I wouldn’t want me making decisions on injecting children with a powerful endocrine alternator.

Just kind of makes one raise an eyebrow or 2.

By: Phil Schwarz

Phil Schwarz — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:12:52 +0000

See http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/109/lupron-geier-index regarding Mark and David Geier, and the extent to which their writings are at all credible.

By: grandma peg

grandma peg — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:05:56 +0000

Hi to All, Im going to paste an info article regarding Mercury in vaccines and ASD children. It originates from Geier and Geier, a Father and son, Father is an M.D.and son , I forgot his title of training… think he is/was a writer of medical research material.. not sure. But here will be the instance of -are my experts as creditable as the Federal Government agencies… but here it is;
*(Note the use of the word.. encephalopies…).

Subject: Thimerosal Linked To Autism: New Clinical Findings
Date: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:05 PM

Thimerosal Linked To Autism: New Clinical Findings

Press Release Contact:
For Immediate Release CoMeD Director [Rev. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364-8426]
April 23, 2007 CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-263-4843]

WASHINGTON, DC The Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Part A: Current Issues, an authoritative journal featuring original toxicological research, has published, A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic *Encephalopathies* Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorders, by Geier and Geier (2007).

This new study leaves little doubt there is a direct causal link between mercury exposure from Thimerosal-preserved biological products (vaccines and Rho(D) products) and mercury poisoning diagnosed as an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Thimerosal (49.55% mercury by weight) is a highly toxic mercury compound used as a preservative in some OTC and prescription drugs, including most flu shots given to pregnant women, infants, children, adults, and the elderly.

On April 19, 2007, Dr. Larry L. Needham, Chief, Organic Analytical Toxicology Branch, CDC, announced to the US National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine that Thimerosal was among the Chemicals Linked to ASD.
Thus, Geier and Geier (2007) provide the first clinical case-series of ASD patients that confirmed this causal role for Thimerosal-preserved drugs in patients having a regressive ASD diagnosis.

The Geiers describe a case-series of eight patients who had:
a regressive ASD diagnosis,
elevated levels of androgens,
excreted significant amounts of mercury after a chelation challenge,
biochemical evidence of decreased function in their glutathione pathways,
no known significant mercury exposures except from Thimerosal-preserved vaccines and Rho(D)-immune globulin preparations, and
other alternate causes for their regressive ASDs ruled out.

This clinical study also found a significant dose-response relationship between the severity of the ASD symptoms and the total mercury dose these children received from Thimerosal-preserved drugs.

Based on differential diagnosis, these patients evaluated were exposed to significant mercury amounts from Thimerosal-preserved biologic drugs during their fetal and neonatal development as well as between 12 and 24 months of age.

Thus, these initially normally developing children suffered mercury toxic *encephalopathies that manifested with clinical symptoms consistent with their regressive ASD diagnosis.

Hence, mercury poisoning should be considered as a cause for those children exhibiting the symptoms of an ASD in any differential diagnosis designed to assess underlying causes.

Today, any parent or other healthcare provider can easily confirm whether, or not, a non-chelated autistic child is mercury poisoned by having urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) testing run at LabCorp (Test#120980) or Laboratoire Philippe Auguste (Urine Porphyrin Profile).

For additional information on UPPA testing for mercury poisoning,
please visit the UPPA page on CoMeDs web site, http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org.
Or request :

A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic
Encephalopathies Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of
Regressive Autistic Disorders

be sent to you as an attachment by
emailing Nancale@aol.com
(NanCY cALE is V.P. of Unlocking Autism.org)

Althought the Fed. Gov. issued orders that thimerosol be discarded in use of children’s vaccines, it doesn’t mean the manufacturers did stop using it. Also, no matter how many samples of Dr’s and Lab’s refrigerators have been done, not all have been sampled. Besides which, the medical people holding such vaccines were given permission to continue to use them for ‘a certain time’, so some kids could still have gotten mercury they couldn’t excrete. I will try to get a legit source for that info too… later. grandma peg)

By: detoxcenter

detoxcenter — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:22:33 +0000

Whether we like it or not, toxins in various forms are present all around us and affect every aspect of our lives.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:28:32 +0000

ASA cites the article here. Regarding Martha Herbert on the environment and autism, I wrote Why are we seeing more autism?: “Environmental injury” vs. “better diagnosis” back in December.