My son is 3 and has tremendous abdominal pain. He is seeking pressure all day in his abdomen. Sometimes his eyes have tears. He had failure to thrive when he was 2. I went to several specialists. Two pediatricians, one work up with a well know GI (who recommended 15mg of prevacid) two endocrinologists. They all sat down in front of me not knowing what to say. A couple of "is part of the autism"
Nobody mentioned that there was one doctor in this planet saying that there is a bowel disease. It is mounstrous. Criminal. I cry every day. He has the right to be relief. He has the right to feel better. He could have been better long time ago.
I agree with Dr. Buie. Let's step away from the cause and concentrate in the reality of the disease. It is so much easier to provide science for that. Let's just get the message out there; the bowel disease is real. The cause could take 15 years of discussion and science. The bowel disease could be recognize in a short term. We need to push for it. For all our kids who are in pain.
Laura mom of David with autism, GERD and some sort of inflammatory bowel disease

This saddens me but at the same time reinforces my gut reaction to our meeting with Dr. Janvier herself. She told us our son had the worst case of Regressive Autism she'd ever seen & was annoyed when she had to take her pumps off to chase our busy 2 year old who for the record has been plagued by GI issues since his vaccination injury. She was entirely non-commital about what we should do other than book therapies every day of the week with her hospital Children's Specialized Hospitals of New Jersey. Perhaps she forgot meeting our son or that he had severe GI issues!!!

Not only do I wish there was a way to recall this woman's seat...but how about her Medical license too? I would have to wonder if she were ever blessed with an Autistic child if they'd ever be a productive member of our community with her attitude or if that would all change once she started to realize yes, moms really do know their children best!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe I am reading the comments of such an uninformed "expert". I don't even have a child with autism but my friend does and I have to respond. Bowel problems are a major part of the syndrome. He is 10 and has to wear a diaper. Please lady, get a clue, do some research, learn to spell internet...

Maybe she has sick bowels, too, and is thus offended... Just sayin. Bowels in general probably offend this lady. I mean, woman. Not sure she's a lady.

I'm autistic. My gut is on fire. I am 52 years old.

We've been around a long time.

But so has wild measles. That does not get shot makers off the hook for using a live vaccine that artificially makes more of us.

I suspect Wilberforce who did for England with clever politicking and some horse racing tickets what it took a long and bloody "Civil" war in the US to do (freed the slaves) may have been one of us. (See the movie Amazing Grace) He needed to be alone with God a lot. He was full of social conscious and his gut was on fire. Sounds like me.

They recently released a study that concluded that "they did not find the live measles virus in the guts of children with autism and gut pains." But I read the whole study (advantage of being hyperlexic). The truth was in the last two paragraphs. The study was only 50 kids and they DID find the measles virus in the guts of two of those 50 kids. Multiply that by the general population of hurting folks like me and we are talking hundreds of thousands if not millions. Plus using a biopsy needle to find a virus in a gut is like using a needle to find a freckle on someone's face in the dark. It is all too easy for the needle to go between the freckles and not find one because they are so tiny and spaced apart. Viruses are even smaller and maybe even more spaced apart.

Am reminded of a quote from my sons favored movie quote, from my autistic sons favored movie, and probably mine..."Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?"

I think the something else, is the TRUTH...that truth that vaccines do and can cause autism/autistic enterocolitis. How inconvenient is that, if your a doctor? Iaotragenic is a four letter word to them...or a treasured secret. Let's also be honest, that the predisposition is Celiac family history, and autoimmunity...but nah, that question is never asked before you get jabbed...never...ever...

What gives her the right to be offended about anything? I'm sick and tired of these people putting on a white coat and making the assumption that it makes them God. Get over yourself lady. I have never seen a kid with Autism that didn't have GI issues!!

I agree with Julie, Michael More is inquisitive when it comes to corruption but probably not sceptical and open enough to question current medical dogmas.

David Simon, the man behind *The Wire* and *Homicide* would be better able to depict the depths and darkness of this tragedy we humans have created for ourselves. Now how do we reach him?

Thanks for this note about Yvette Janvier. She has shown us the true colors of the AAP. Just as the AAP and IACC have turned their backs on our sick kids we should turn our backs on the IACC. I opposed the Combating Autism Act because I believed that its IACC and other bureaucratic creations would function just as they have. They have functioned as an obstacle to the welfare of our children. Rather than enabling them we should disable them through political action.

It is enough already. We should turn our back on IACC. We should no longer participate in this charade. My son is ten years old now - he cannot speak and his GI problems persist despite improvement through various interventions. We can no longer tolerate the ignorance of individuals like Dr. Janvier.

I think we need to escalate and intensify our opposition to the sham that the IACC has become. That is not to say that the efforts of many parents at the IACC has not been meaningful. At this point, however, it is clear that the IACC is a dead end vehicle to obtain meaningful intervention for our sick children.

Robert J. Krakow

People-we ARE making a difference!

A huge children s medical hospital in our area is having a clinicians conference later this month and guess who the guess speakers are!

Dr. Arthur Krigsman from thoughtful house in texas. Dr. Arthur Krigsman has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of gastrointestinal pathology (now known as autistic enterocolitis) common in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and has detailed the symptomatology and endoscopic/histopathologic character of this disease in this unique, poorly understood group of children. His findings have been presented at scientific and lay meetings in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Liz Mumper (President and CEO of The RIMLAND Center) is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics at the Edward Via Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

This is the same hospital whose pediatricians just two years ago were unable to recognize overt regression symptoms in our son even as we pointed them out, was unable to recognize or treat him for his severe gastrointestinal problems and would not honor our request for a referral to a gastrointesinolgist or a developmental pediatrician. Their actual advice was-lets wait six months and see..

We said screw that and made our own appts and started biomedical treatment within two months of our sons regression into silence and pain. I still have great anger towards them but look how the times they be changin!.

It is incredibly satisfying to look at our invitation and to know we played a small part in bringing them around.

It won't be long before idiotic goons posing as medical professionals like Janvier will join the other dinosaurs in extinction.

HEY!!! Taximom!!
I think you are on to something....Michael Moore!!
Hmmmmmm!!
Jacey

“the idea that autistic kids are sick offends me! I have been a developmental pediatrician for 20 years and have never seen an autistic child with immune problems or GI issue!” ~Dr. Janvier

Hmm...it seems these doctors miss quite a bit. I mean aren't these the same doctors that say the autism increase is just better diagnosis? Obviously, Dr. J just missed all the ASD kids with GI/autoimmune issues.

Honestly, I'm not sure it is even worth the time to write an email to these pinheads.

Julie O, I think you hit it. It must be very hard for a pediatrician to face that they have been condemning children to a life of disability instead of healing. But it's like the "good Germans". How long can they keep saying "we didn't know"?

Then there are the creeps like Offit and Insel who know and don't care.

As for Michael Moore, I don't think he has the skeptical attitude toward medical "science" to take this on. I felt like he missed the point in "Sicko" ( that the medical system itself creates disease) and he didn't pick up on the fact that the Columbine boys were on psychoactive meds.

Dr. Janvier fits in nicely with Dr. David Tayloe's AAP. Remember when he stated on Larry King that his practice sees 100K children per year and has never filed a VAERS report? These arrogant, ignorant, selfish doctors are causing stunning harm to our precious children and DO NOT CARE AND WILL NEVER ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT. We as parents must NOT allow these people anywhere near our children!

I and a friend have been emailing Michael Moore for years. He has never one time responded to either of us. Not even a form email saying jack crap to us.
I don't know, maybe if we make it a large plan and hit him up with a ton of emails it may get his attention. It would be years before he would get another movie out though because he just released one a week ago.
Sorry for the downer guys but I don't see him doing much unless we ALL come at him as a united front.

@TaxiMom - Great idea !! I followed the link to Michael Moore and attached this article. I also told him I thought this should be the topic of his next movie : ) WONDERFUL !!

If she's affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson folks, it all makes sense. Robert Wood Johnson = Johnson & JOhnson = Janssen = risperdal = eugenics. No GI issues in that equation.

My letter for what it's worth..

Dear Doctor Janvier,

According to Age of Autism, (www.ageofautism.com ), you made some pretty saliscious remarks regarding our children which often have potentially life threatening, wasting syndromes via the gut. You observed, accordingly, there was none. May I tell you the woe/danger my children were put under? I will attach a photo to another email, and I want you to examine and look my child, who was wasting so badly, people asked if he had cancer. Numerous biopsies revealed hyperplasia, esphogeal disease/Gerd/celiac, and various markers including Measles gut virus epitopes, which are vaccine strains. Had I not paid attention to my continually wasting son, he would have perished by malnourshiment. Good doctors, though unbelieving at the time, thought my son to have AIDS, or some other casechia disease. NO, he had autism, induced by vaccination. He reacted badly to a DPT shot, which was eleven days after, with febrile convulsions and high pitch screaming. On further evaluation, the disposition was that my son had mitochondrial dysfunction (different from inherited), and that he was experiencing what we call in the autism community, starving brain syndrome. Some children I know have such huge bezoirs in their gut, they literally BUST. Large blockages are seen, diahrreah from hell that never stops, and constipation, so injurious to the gut, that the brain is starving literally to death for nutrients. Leter we even found out my entire family was lyme positive, which could also further make the gut a problematic organ. Oft times the behaviors of autism, are just symptoms of PAIN. They fall upon the floor and do tantrums, head butt, kick and pinch themselves, and put themselves over arm chairs to relieve the pain. Oft times that is agressive behavior. I don't know about you...but when my gut is bad or unwell, I am bad and feel unwell too, except in my instance, I can say, I am in pain. If you had no way to communicate that, what would you do?

Through special diets less wheat, milk, corn and soy, as well as paying attention to the quality of food, my son slowly started to gain weight. But had I not brung up this problem, he would have wasted to nothing. He had to go on antifungals, antibiotics, antivirals, probiotics, amino acids, etc, for these issues to be resolved in full. At times we will still experience some problems, due to diet infractions or imbalances of gut flora. Interestingly we had a huge regression after a dental surgery, which induced NO in the brain, and caused problems with encopresis. The wasting started again. I had to start all over again...with all the treatments I could think of to save my son.

I would like to point to your attention, the comments on age of autism, so that you may reevaluate your position-possibly join forces with us to make sure your statements are scientifically valid. Have you actually TOUCHED a child with autism, biopsied their gut, find biomedical underpinnings of gut problems, are are you just assuming this is the case? If mothers don't say anything, is that the assumption? For years, my son didn't have any signs, till BOOM...then it was unmistakable. But inbetween that time, I had seen seizures, encephalopathies associated with that, refusal to eat, not sleeping because of GERD, and strange immune/metabolic tests that indicated my son was severely infected by SOMETHING.

I ask for some kind of reason on your part, and your hospital to reevaluate the position that this is not connected to autism. Notwithstanding...if my son didn't have autism, you would be alarmed even of his wasting as a neurotypical peer...do we have to throw out the diagnosis of autism in order for our kids to have any concern to anyone? This is a multisystemic disorder. AIDS patients experienced a lot of predjudice in their diagnosis for years, and I am afraid we are no better. These children deserve whole body holistic view points, not narrow minded ones. May you reevaluate your position on this, with scientific reasoning, that of the HPA axis, Blood Brain Barrier, and the immune system which lies within the gut do matter in relationship to the CNS.

Sincerely

Kathy Blanco

. “An observant parent’s evidence may be disproved but should never be ignored” —Lancet 1:688, 1951, Anonymous

Taximom,

yes! I Love this idea!!! Here's Michael Moores contact page:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/submit

Given the high percentage of autistic kids with celiac disease, apparently, she doesn't believe celiac disease exists? Or is she offended by that, too?

Is there ANY way we can get this into the mainstream press?

I still think that Michael Moore might be interested in making this his next film topic...does anyone know how to contact him?

If you follow my posts here,and at other blogs,you know I do not just have regressive autism,and all the other garbage that goes with it like apraxia,a history of developmental delay,yadda yadda yadda.I also have all sorts of lifelong medical problems. The GI disease,and lifelong failure to thrive,the chronic infections,and immune problems,the whole nine yards.

Although I am much older,I have been just as sick as any of your children,and I have never been able to get any diagnoses for my medical problems.

In the last couple of months,I have begun to see an outstanding DAN! doctor,who sometimes posts on this site:

http://www.hbotnm.com/index_main.html
http://www.bodiesinrebellion.com/about.html

And have finally gotten a lot of the tests I have been begging my other doctors to do for years,but they refused to do.I was found not to have mitochondrial problems,but one thing that was found,was megaloblastic anemia.Not just low MB12 levels,but very serious anemia.

In doing some research on the web,I found this type of anemia,is common not only in autism,but in any serious GI disease where there is longterm malabsorption.This means cystic fibrosis,Crohn's disease,cirrhosis of the liver,or alcoholic pancreatitis.That sort of stuff.

I think most people here would agree that GI disease in autism can be just as severe as any of these.

One disease that this type of anemia is also associated with is Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency.So I typed this into Google with autism,and struck gold right away.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2716675

This is something everybody reading this needs to see,but here's a few key points:

> Toxic chemicals found in cigarette smoke, air pollutants, oxidizing chemicals, and oxidizing agents released by activated neutrophils, all inactivate a critical portion of the alpha-1-antitrypsin molecule.

> If autistic children express low levels of alpha-1-antitrypsin,they may be more susceptible to proteolytic damage caused excess digestive enzymes released from white blood cells during inflammation or infection.

>Three of the 23 affected individuals who answered the related questions had respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (p In inflammatory conditions, AAT levels are normally elevated. In this study, however, the results demonstrate low alpha-1-antitrypsin serum levels, which are probably due to genetic factors and not excess protein loss in stool. This might contradict the theory that autistic patients have inflammatory bowel disease because if there was chronic inflammation due to enterocolitis,the alpha-1-antitrypsin level should be elevated. However,there is evidence that increased inflammation is associated with AAT deficiency,such as GI inflammation in patients with ulcerative colitis, associated with the PiZ carriers,and neutrophil associated inflammation seen in the lungs of AAT deficient patients.

> Our study also suggests an association between autistic children with regressive disease and AAT deficiency. This suggests that, besides genetic predisposition, environmental factors may be influencing levels of serum AAT in these individuals.

>Our observation, however, that some non-autistic siblings inherit AAT deficiency, and parents of autistic children who also have low levels of serum AAT,suggests that AAT deficiency alone is not a causative agent for ASD,but may make a subset of autistics susceptible to inflammatory disease.

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I say this is one of the most important studies about autism of our time,and it's looking more and more like this is what I have.This study came out in March,and was completely ignored.

So if this is the case,in some of us,it is GI disease,it's just not bowel disease.

It's liver disease.

Don't feel bad, Katie for reporting this incident. It is better to know how inappropriate, uninformed, and unstable some of these IACC people are. This woman may have never seen a child with GI issues and autism- because she did not want to SEE the issues. It is easier to say the child has "autism" and that is the reason for all of the behaviors, including biting, head bashing, screaming, crying, and catatonia-

yes - catatonia. See the behaviors and think GI/brain inflammation - and be sickened that so many in the medical field have ignored the true nature of autism posturing, grimacing and then they call it "purposeless agitation"...

I have witnessed tics, compulsions, and self-injury in my daughter. This is illness-induced (vaccine-immune) and relates to dysbiotic and pathogenic bacteria - (STREP, CLOSTRIDIA, et al).
Dr. Janvier is another part of the problem. She is ignorant, arrogant and needs to be corrected and most likely "fired" from her IACC position. See how autism and catatonia are combined to then rationalize this treatment. People like Janvier are allowing this thought process and living in a denial of reality - the children are SICK and have been historically misdiagnosed, mistreated, and abuses have been done. What she is doing is continuing this practice, which is looking barbaric right now.

The Journal of ECT:
March 2009 - Volume 25 - Issue 1 - pp 19-22
doi: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e3181957363
Review
Catatonia and Autism: A Historical Review, With Implications for Electroconvulsive Therapy
Dhossche, Dirk M. MD, PhD; Reti, Irving M. MBBS; Wachtel, Lee E. MD
AbstractCurrent autism research is historically separated from catatonia and other childhood psychotic disorders, although catatonia and autism share several common symptoms (mutism, echolalia, stereotypic speech and repetitive behaviors, posturing, grimacing, rigidity, mannerisms, and purposeless agitation). Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) effectively treats catatonia and catatonia-related conditions of intractable compulsions, tics, and self-injury in people with autism. We assess the incidence of catatonic symptoms in autism, examine emerging ECT indications in people with autism and related developmental disorders, and encourage ethical debate and legal-administrative action to assure equal access to ECT for people with autism.

Katie - Thank you for posting this. Janvier is clearly the offensive one here. She needs to step out of her private universe and take a good look at the population of autistic children who are sick and in pain. And, why can't her committee focus on a "very rare" case of GI or immune problems. Don't these kids count? Even if it is "rare" shouldn't someone be looking into it. As an appointed member of the IACC and member of the AAP, her behavior is not only offensive, it's shameful.

"I have been a developmental pediatrician for 20 years and have never seen an autistic child with immune problems or GI issue!”

Then she's obviously a) never seen a child with ASD or b) she's only played a doctor on TV.

Next time my son does his duty I'll scoop it out and send it to her for proper analyzation. Then perhaps she'll know what it's truly like to be offended.

Katie,

This is the same lady who said Jenny McCarthy wasn't being "fair" when speaking about recovery almost two years ago at an IACC meeting in DC!

I confronted her in the cafeteria line after she made the remark (she was right behind me and someone else had come up to "congratulate her" for making her statement during the morning session) and told her she was wayyy off the mark!

Her “fair” remark stemmed from the fact that parents of older children (who she had been treating for YEARS) were asking her if maybe they had “missed something” in all those years that could have helped their children! I told her it was ludicrous to deny the success of recovery for some children just because others may have “missed out” on earlier intervention and/or certain interventions weren’t working for them!

Crazy – but absolutely true story.

Bottom Line: Looking at her past track record, it doesn’t surprise me in the least she made these more recent statements.

Kelli

Sara, our son had 'soft' signs of autism right from the start, and he also had various GI issues from the first day of his life. A one-day old baby exibiting psychosomatic behaviours *without medical cause*. He wasn't really in pain, you know, he was only pretending, 'cos of his autism. So much for that idiot theory. Needless to say his 2,3 and 4 month vaccines made his GI issues progressively worse.

And this so called Doctor Janvier actually makes a living practising medicine. Criminal.

Although I think Dr. Javier is arrogant and narrow-minded, I am guessing that she is not lying. I, myself hear about terrible GI issues on AoA and the national autism forums I subscribe to - but locally, I rarely meet a child with these problems - my son is also not one of them. It would be interesting to know if these are the children who also regress into autism, as opposed to having signs from birth - and on top of that, if these are the children who also have the potential to recover (or as the recent survey indicated, lose their diagnosis).

This is such an important subset to be looking at - it may reveal answers for all ASD types. Shame on Dr. Javier!

Katie, do you have access to the personal mailing addresses of all insurgents on the committee?? Can we inundate them with snail mail?

This approximately $60 million collaborative effort, the largest in NIH history to support ASD research, will result in studies that address a wide range of topics, including ASD measurement, identification of biological indicators, genetic and environmental risk factors, and ASD intervention and treatment.

This from the "Director's Corner", Insel's page, at NIMH's website! What a liar!

I am offended by the cavalier attitude of Janvier and others like her!

Our health care system will change when we finally are able to knock physicians like Janvier off their high horses.

Our children will receive better, more thorough care from doctors who are humble, caring, accountable to their patients and not blinded to what is directly in front of them by their allegiance to some entity which lines their pockets and feeds their arrogance.

Wow, her ignorance is astounding. Maybe she should do a google search of "cytokines and autism"? Or, she could read even the AAP's treatment statement acknowledging kids with autism could have GI disease and should be evaluated.
So, if a parent describes concerns that may indicate underlying GI or immunological issues for their child with ASD to her and she dismisses them without an appropriate referral- is that medical mal?
President Obama, please remove these ignorant folks from the IACC, Insel needs to go. They have failed us, our children and will continue to waste all our time. We can give you the names of some great physicians who actually have a clue to ASD.

I really don't even know how to respond to Dr. Janvier's comment. I am so sick and tired of the ignorance and the lies. I just returned from the National Vaccine Information Center conference in Reston, Virginia, and I thank God that there are so many intelligent, compassionate people out there who just get it.

Katie wrote:

"I think those of us with sick children need to let IACC know how we feel about Dr. Janvier’s characterization of our kids."

Apparently, Dr. Janvier represents the majority opinion on Insell's "treatment committee" which he proudly declared "did not talk about GI treatment and dietary intervention".

So, I think it may be a waste of time writing to express our outrage at Dr. Janvier's characterization of our kids....because...the the problem is much bigger than Dr. Janvier, Dr. Insell or his "treatment committee"....the problem is and has always been... the IACC itself.

I am sorry to have to share this insanity. The last thing I want to do is make parents feel like they want to tear their hair out first thing in the morning. However, Janvier said all of the above. I rewound the video because I was certian I had mis-heard Janvier's statements- but no she indeed was "offended" by the mere idea that doctors could possibly be missing GI or autoimmune symptoms in ASD kids and she INSISTED, vehemently, that she had NEVER seen an ASD child w/ these issues. And yes, she said that ASD kids are the healthiest she has ever known.

Rather than expressing concern or merely interest in this significant sub group of ASD kids, Janvier became angry. How dare anyone assert that she or any other pediatrician could be uninformed. How Janvier became the victim in all of this I would like to know.

I am guessing we should contact our Congressional reps and tell them that we are the ones "offended" by the hostile and ignorant remarks of an unelected bureaucrat who belittles our children's pain and basically calls our families liars.

Thank God we have the brains to fire and move on ... for our children's health. The only way anyone will actually say hmmmm maybe there is something to biomedical treatment, is if we could turn back the clock do nothing and see the lack of progress our kids make - then turn the clock back again, do biomedical treatment and show the amazing progress and the return to health for so many. Problem is, they'd still say they outgrew autism. I'm angry and just feel like saying go hell to all those holding so many kids back from health and continuing to injure kids whether they are doing it knowingly for profits or because they are just plain ignorant. Someday, the world will look back and say holy shit they weren't crazy internet parents.

Damn, my memories of the developmental pediatrician office is the smell of skanky diahrea either from my child or the one that had their schedulued visit before us. Oh, and that goes for speech and occupational therapies as well.

We had a similar experience at the first ped I ever fired. Last year. His colleague (a ped) ordered an EEG for one of my kids. they never gave me the results. I ended up having to call the hospital for any info. At a sick visit (bumped head followed by vomiting, so I was concerned) we saw the head of the practice. I share with him that I hadn't gotten the EEG results and was disturbed by that - I was polite but pointed. His answer? "You didn't get an EEG through THIS office. I'm a ped and I've never ordered an EEG!" He didn't bother to check her file for the info, just told me I was wrong. Call me crazy, but glue and electrodes on the head ARE an EEG, aren't they? I sure as sh*t didn't order the test myself.... I fired him last year after they turned Bella away for a sick visit because she had gone onto CT Medicaid after Mark lost his job. They would NOT see her. A patient of 3 years, sick in their office. Trumbull Pediatrics - their wallpaper is a series of flu shot posters. Our new ped? She had only a breastfeeding post on her wall. Not a pharma ad in sight. There ARE good docs - we found one. There are schmucks too. Like Janvier and David Bonheim.

Here's my version: I am a gynecologist and I have NEVER seen a patient with brain cancer. Therefore, women do not GET brain cancer.

Dr. Janvier, most of us learn early the developmental pediatricians are only marginally useful to get a diagnosis - once diagnosed, your quiver is devoid of treatment arrows. "Go to early intervention, get speech and OT and try these drugs," are hardly groundbreaking medical suggestions. Following diagnosis, then parents begin to connect their kids real medical conditions to what you call "Autism" and likely seek out a medical specialist.

I have three kids on the spectrum - our ped HAD a dev. ped. on staff - I never bothered to see her. Haven't seen one since Rita Penoscha at CHOP in 1998. She was terrific. My daughter had global developmental delay. That means she can't speak in Europe, Asia and America...

"I have been a developmental pediatrician for 20 years and have never seen an autistic child with immune problems or GI issue."

Yes, and YOU are the reason our kids suffer - you and your "seeing" problem - you and most every other mainstream doctor. You're all blind fools. You've got your heads so far up your asses you can't see sh*t.

I'll be drafting a letter today. It's maddening, the ignorance.

Thank you Katie for your continued service to our kids and our community.

It is offensive to me that she would so rudely and quickly dimiss the experiences of actual parents "in the trenches."

My child is not autistic but did suffer from bowel issues. Strangely enough, when these were resolved so were other issues that we noticed for years. In fact, these problems were what lead me to the autism forums (was determined to help my child) to begin with.

As it turns out, this child very likely has celiac disease - surprise surprise - an autoimmune disorder possibly triggered by over-vaccination (my opinion).

When will our leaders and their agents recognize the damage that we are inflicting on a generation of children? These caustic responses do not lend much hope to parents who have WITNESSED their children improve dramatically!

The problem is - if there is an actual solution - that means there is likely a causative factor, a point our government cannot afford to acknowledge.