Dr. Jeff Bradstreet: In Memoriam#android#iPad#retweet

Like you, we read of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet’s death and were struck silent.  A stalwart leader in treating autism, really helping families, his loss is huge in our community. Dan Olmsted interviewed Dr. Bradstreet 10 years ago for his The Age of Autism series with UPI.  Here is the interview; the study he was calling for has finally been done and the results are awaited, a testament to his foresight and persistence. Our condolences to the Bradstreet family and the autism community who relied on his compassion and care.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) — Where are the unvaccinated homeschooled children with autism? Nowhere to be found, says a doctor who treats autistic children and is knowledgeable about the homeschooled world.

“It’s largely nonexistent,” Dr. Jeff Bradstreet told UPI’s Age of Autism. “It’s an extremely rare event.

Bradstreet treats autistic children at his medical practice in Palm Bay, Fla. He has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15 months. His daughter has been homeschooled, he describes himself as a “Christian family physician,” and he knows many of the leaders in the homeschool movement.

“There was this whole subculture of folks who went into homeschooling so they would never have to vaccinate their kids,” he said. “There’s this whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons.”

In that subset, he said, “unless they were massively exposed to mercury through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or big-time fish eating, I’ve not had a single case.”…

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http://www.ageofautism.com

No Shortcuts to Autism Recovery: Do the Work#android#iPad#retweet

~ Zorro

I’m going to piss off a few moms. Sorry. Bear with me, please. I’m doing this with love and 13+ years of experience. LOADS of love, including tough love.

Last month I was invited to speak at a local autism summit where there was a nice mix of education, technology, and biomedical topics covered. I was up last and I spent about 30 minutes going over what we did, what worked, what didn’t work . . . basically, the foundation of my son’s recovery from autism.

And it was work. My son worked, I worked, my husband worked.

After my talk, I had a couple of moms contact me to ask me questions, go over their children’s stories. I’ve given a few of these talks and find that the questions and the comments all seem to circle back to one thing:

Did the biomedical interventions really work, or would my son have recovered anyway?

Oh for heaven’s sake. Really?

Yes, really.

I’m going to be crystal clear:

My son would NOT have recovered without the biomedical intervention and support…

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http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com

‘Why NOT vaccinating my kids was the best decision I ever made’: Mother of EIGHT had six of her babies vaccinated but refused to immunise her two youngest… and says they’re the only ones without chronic health problems#android#iPad#retweet

I have great admiration for this mother. I am sure she had many of the same concerns that a lot of other parents have, and she exhibited the courage to do what was in the best interest of her children.

When I first became a Mum, I never questioned getting my children vaccinated. It was just what you did when you have children – you do what your doctor tells you, because they know best.

My husband and I had never been told that there could be any adverse reactions, only a bit of redness and swelling at the injection site. So as each of our six eldest children got progressively sicker after each vaccination, we never made that connection.

Out of our six vaccinated children, our 16, 12 and 10-year-old have moderate to severe Autism, our 25-year-old has ADHD, our 14-year-old has a severe language disorder, and our 20-year-old has severe mood swings…

…They also suffered from chronic ear infections, bronchiolitis, asthma, eczema, psoriasis, urinary infections, gastrointestinal and autoimmune disorders, allergies, chemical sensitivities and intolerances. 

We tried genetic testing to look for answers, but no reason was found for our children’s afflictions. So I started looking for answers on my own. I read books, went to seminars, read all the scientific studies I could get my hands on and that’s when I discovered that our family was not the only one…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

70% of the media is funded by pharmaceutical companies.

I like the advice I once heard, to view the media through the lense of watching a commercial.

If you ever wonder why So many medically trained doctors are adamant about vaccines, then take a look at who is funding their medical schools and writing their textbooks.

If you take a step further you will find that their schooling is near absent of any training on how to recognize a vaccine adverse reaction, the critical importance of timely reporting of the vaccine adverse reaction and how to heal, when possible, a vaccine injury.

You would think that with the constant push for vaccines that there would be greater training on the topic. I bet that a lot of pediatricians would have appreciated this knowledge before beginning medical school.

Our society views medical doctors as experts on this topic, then why aren’t they?

Just because a medical school or the American Medical Association does not teach these things does not mean that the practicing physician does not have a moral obligation to learn these things on their own.

The only ones left to guard the health and safety of the child are the parents, and thus the need to hang on to our vaccine exemptions.

The media and medical establishment assault on parental choice is clear.

Each member voting in a legislature and governmental board has the responsibility to study these matters out.

Thankfully, there are thousands of parents and groups that are helpful in this area.

Eventually, vaccines should be an opt in choice not something that parents have to go through the effort to opt out of one or more.

Being that any vaccine can cause death or injury, a vaccine philosophical exemption should Always be available.

Early Signs of Autism#android#iPad#follow

Early Signs of Autism Minimize
One or more of the following can be indicators of an Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes Autistic Disorder, PDD-NOS and Asperger’s Disorder, also known as Asperger’s Syndrome:

  • Absence of smiles of recognition by six months or thereafter Acts as though they cannot hear your voice  
  • Absence of acknowledgment when a parent returns home or when a new person enters the room by six months or thereafter  
  • Preoccupation or fascination with objects rather than with people 
  • Plays alone  
  • Impaired social interaction such as back-and-forth sharing of facial expressions by nine months or thereafter  
  • Slow to imitate games like peek-a-boo  
  • Giggling for no reason or when no one else is around as early as four months or thereafter  
  • Extreme sensitivities to light, smell, sound, touch and taste by four months or thereafter…

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