When Should I Be Concerned? How about:

When your son's pediatrician tells you not to worry about his strange behaviors, boys develop at a different rate than girls.

When your newborn is rushed to another hospital's neonatal intensive care unit after his first vaccination and the specialist says, "Kids- what can you do?"

When your child becomes terrifyingly ill after a round of shots lying in his crib very still, covered in a full body rash, temperatures ranging from very high to very low. So you rush him to the ER and they shrug their shoulders and say, it must have been a virus...

When your three very small children begin group projectile vomiting every day after eating. When you and your husband are constantly on your knees cleaning up their puke every day and the doctor says kids can be a little "urpy".

When, after rounds of genetic testings, you ask the experts how this happened to all three children, and they still don't know...

The following comment was sent to the IACC and our US Senator on September 30,2008 with no response and no change made in the draft:

“One list showing vaccines that contain mercury is found at http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm.

I call your attention to the fact that people, including expectant mothers, after receiving 25 micrograms of mercury in one of these vaccines, would exceed the USEPA mercury reference dose. The USEPA established the level of “0.0001 mg/kg/d based on developmental neurologic abnormalities in human infants.”
That means that a clear and present risk is presented to both to the mother and the child by the act of receiving these levels of mercury injected into their bloodsteams.

Also, according to the USEPA, “mercury compounds to prevent bacterial and fungal growth” for latex paint were discontinued after 1990. See http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/mercury.html .

In view of these facts, it is intolerable that the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) continues a policy that studies the practice of injecting this toxic heavy metal into human beings without first warning the public of the risks.

It is with great concern that I therefore request that the IACC include warnings in the strategic plan, under “SECTION III. WHAT CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN AND CAN THIS BE PREVENTED?” Until further studies warrant otherwise, the warnings should clearly state that no person should receive any vaccinations with mercury containing preservatives.

In addition, I request that the IACC correct a serious omission in the draft plan. It states:

“Numerous epidemiological studies have found no relationship between ASD and vaccines containing the mercury based preservative, thimerosal (Immunization Safety Review Committee, 2004).”

Too often this incomplete statement regarding the scientific literature on Autism is quoted in press articles. It misleads the reading public into thinking that there are no other studies to the contrary.

For instance, Dr. Verstaeten stated “The CDC screening study of thimerosal-containing vaccines was perceived at first as a positive study that found an association between thimerosal and some neurodevelopmental outcomes. See http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/932 . He then states that since a second study on a different group of children didn’t show the same results then the totality of the two studies on different sets of children is neutral. This is not neutral. If ½ of the study for one set of children shows a risk of autism and the other ½ of the study for another set of children finds not risk then ½ plus zero equals ½, not zero, not null, and not “neutral.” None the less he did say “more study is required.”

The “half truth” of this draft Strategic Plan present wording on Autism studies is, as Alfred Lord Tennyson said in his poem The Grandmother, a “harder matter to fight.”

Therefore I request that the omission be corrected and all studies that have indicated risk of autism from Thimerosal be referenced and discussed.

Finally, before more study is conducted, it is urgency and diligence that require every effort to warn the public to not receive vaccines that contain any levels of mercury. And it is unconscionable that these vaccines are still administered to children and pregnant women.”

When should you be concerned?

Several years before conceiving.

Get treated for Lyme disease. Reduce the load of viruses and yeast in your body. Reduce heavy metals. Get amalgams removed by an IAOMT dentist http://www.iaomt.org Stop eating fish with high mercury content. Infrared saunas are a great way to reduce chemicals and metals in the body. Eat organic.

Don't get vaccines and don't vaccinate your kids.

Is there a time when I shouldn't be concerned? HELLO!?!?!? Obvioulsy these people have absolutley no understanding of autism at all whatsoever!! UGH! When should I be concerned........how much time have you got?

How about when your 2 1/2 year-old son stops talking and starts grinding his teeth and flapping his hands (developments that did NOT concern our then pediatrician who was also Chairman of the Dept. of Pediatrics)?

We should have been concerned decades ago that this disorder was on the rise...Now, with all the conflicts of interests, and the multiple etiologies to autism, how can anyone "clean up" what has been done? To do that we would have to sue every bloody bastard that did this to our children, to the vaccinator, to the pharmaceutical company, to the OB GYN/Pediatricians and their societies that have terrible recommendations, to the food makers, to the polluters? How are we going to stop this? Education. Honesty. Objective non biased Research and accountability, real acountability. Good luck with that...it never will happen, as long as "feign" concerned political action committee's are at the helm funded by undercuts and deals from pharma and greed and averice reign. How about a parent committee? I think there are plenty of professional parents who could accomplish more in a half hour, than years with this committee? And I agree with Kristine...before conception...what is going on with parents immune systems, infections, toxins...we are the incubators, what's wrong with us? (not to be a beat your chest moment)..but I have helped a researcher recently to gather multitues of moms with CFS who have children with autism to study the XMRV virus. One must ask, why are the moms sick? Why are PEOPLE sick, and why is our immune function declining? This, I feel, is the baseline of why we have autism at this number now. Excuse me to think, that most parents get that...but these people...have their heads up their.....he hemm's....

"When should I be concerned?" Whenever the IACC holds a meeting on short notice... Or maybe whenever they hold a meeting period.