My sister has MS and her youngest is on the spectrum

This article is heavy going, intense micro-cellular level information but connects MS and Autism under the same grouping(see figure 2a). It is fascinating, and it is researching the connection between different types of cellular injury (be that physical, chemical, toxin, etc) and where this injury occurs at different levels of the injury/healing cycle, and how that relates to each of the chronic diseases (including Autism and MS).

http://bit.ly/2LDVTKr

I have MS and have an autistic son with PDD NOS and eventually diagnosed with Asperger at age 5. Age 13 he was also diagnosed with Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and when an 2nd attack occurred and an additional MRI they diagnosed him with MS. It has been a long battle. He is now 18 graduating with honors and in the National Honors Society. He has received a four year academic scholarship that is paying half of his tuition to a private university.

Tasha,
I don't think you having MS has caused your son's autism. I think it's just that your genetic make up may have caused both these conditions. A lot of these conditions are related. Please don't feel you should blame yourself, put your energy into making both of you as well as possible. I hope things look up for you.

I have recently been diagnosed with ms and the doctors have been suspecting my third born has autism. I will be following this feed. Would love to find out more.
My email is
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Please let me know if you find any answers!

Easy. Mercury poisoning. I just saw Mary's comment right above this, and she's right. No doubt. I have MS, C has autism. I'm struggling to chelate it out with the Andy Cutler protocol, over five years into it now. ALA and DMSA from South Africa, no longer sold in the US. (I would say the reason is obvious.) Finally, after all this time and all these rounds (I started another last night), I'm finally sleeping better, finally getting sleepy in the evening. I hadn't for thirty years. Count them. And I can turn my head all the way to the left again, after years of its setting off waves of vertigo and nausea if I did so. Now I can sleep on my left side again, after YEARS of not being able to do so.

Some people are unable to excrete mercury from vaccines and other sources as easily as others. Like everyone in my family. Look at the symptoms. MS (and this is just my symptoms, I'm sure there are others): dizziness, nausea, vomiting, numbness, paralysis, ataxia, loss of balance, ataxia (crooked walking), extreme fatigue (from the mitochondrial disorder caused by mercury), extremely severe and permanent insomnia, double vision, optic neuritis. Autism (in my daughter): delayed, absent, or aberrant speech, loss of speech (like my father after a flu vaccine in 1999), lack of eye contact, hand and arm flapping, pronoun reversal, echolalia, lining things up, chronic constipation or diarrhea, insomnia and other sleep disorders, awkward social interactions, inability to relate to others. All symptoms of mercury poisoning, absolutely mercurial in their variety.

Wow! I'm amazed to hear of this connection but kinda not surprised either... Here is our story. I had my son at age 23 and by the time my son was the age of 1 year I knew something was off. I figured out on my own what it was but couldn't get anyone to listen to me. My son was 4 when he was finally diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Thankfully I was so sure before the diagnosis that I took steps to provide early intervention for him, and after the diagnosis finally came we were able to get more help. He's in regular Ed and no one can tell. He has difficulties with some minor things but is doing great. Now, me...I began having health problems not long after my son was born. I had extreme migranes, odd pains in my legs and feet, felt so clumsy a lot, had strange breathing difficulties of tightness around my chest (ms hug), lots of fatigue and vertigo. Also strange numbness that came and went. Doctors were no help. I was told everything from I had anxiety to it was "all in my head" or I'm crazy basically. Well it is in my head, but also my spine now too. I was finally diagnosed with progressive relapsing ms at age 34 when my son was 11. I woke up and hit the floor with one side of my body dead and headed to the hospital. They found a massive amount of lesions on my brain, cervical and thoracic spine. I've had multiple relapses one that required plasmapheresis, and I have not responded to treatments. My prognosis doesn't look good. I often wonder had they paid attention and listened sooner could this progression have been prevented. I'm already using a motorized wheelchair and I'm disabled after being diagnosed only a year and a half ago. Though of course I had it much sooner as much as 8 years prior as we can see. My son is better off than myself. All because I refused to listen to doctors or family and help him myself and fight. I wish I knew more and could've somehow fought more for myself too. It is strange how I relate to my son so much. Both having neurological conditions we have experienced similar problems. Focus and attention, clumsy, memory and cognitive troubles, and headaches to name a few. And I have now had almost every therapy my son has once had. Speech, physical and occupational. No behavior therapy for me yet but I've been told to seek councling for the sadness I experience with everything ms has taken from me and extreme chronic neuropathic pain. There is obviously a link. Someone needs to do more to discover the relation between the two. My son is the greatest gift God has ever given me. I'm grateful for him every day. I hate I cannot be the mom I feel he needs and deserves anymore. I pray the link doesn't affect our children or their children with having ms one day. God please send help

Second Son born with exteme abnormalities in bone and brain growth gene family (FGF/FGFR).

First Son a 3 year old genius. Most males throughout family tree have learning gifts.

Suspect Aspbergers enhanced in myself after severe trauma was treated with antidepressants and antipsychotics, suspect Aspbergers in first Son.

Mother's twin (and her 2 adult children) with MS. Mother's MS misdiagnosed as diabetes/tylenol abuse?

A Giant a few generations back on my side, ALL my wife's cousins are 6'3"+ (she is 5'7")

I suspect variations within bone and brain growth gene family, MS and Aspbergers may all be linked together throughout our family tree?

I was diagnosed three years ago with RRMS. My 7 yr old has Autism.

I need help please!!! We live in Bzn, MT my son just turned 2... I just turned 35 MRI with 3-4 3mm brain lesions 4+ yrs of symtomatic... on going. After birth of son symptoms worse. Son now isnt speaking..regression of words etc. Hes at a 9 mo cognitive level when his entire growth normal. I go to my first neuro apt this tuesday..hes scheduled to see child phycologist for possible autism. Im heart broken mad confused

Thank you for this article. I am 60 years of age and am certain that i have High Functioning Autism, otherwise called Aspergers Disorder. I am discouraged to attempt an official diagnosis, having been informed of the difficulty of females and adults in getting a diagnosis, but i have all the 'symptoms' and it makes my life very difficult. I found your article in searching for connections between Autism and MS. My father had multiple sclerosis and was disabled for half his life, and died from complications due to it. I was interested to see how often families are making this connection, as i saw several discussions in groups about this, but very very little medical research or mention of it. I did find one scientific article that finds a definite association in genetic links between the two . http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v1/n12/full/tp201162a.html

I have ms I have done for 15 years.i have two boys with asd 8 10 oldest has adhd as well but all being looked into for seizures.

There's a saying, "You can't get the right answers unless you ask the right questions." You are asking the right question, Sarah: What is the link between autism and MS?

Here's a more specific question: What is the link between autism, MS, myelin, casein, gluten, antibodies, and the MMR vaccine? Here's my hypothesis, supported by what we know so far from the research.

There is only one factor that is common to all of these items: an autoimmune reaction. In an adult with MS, an autoimmune response demyelinates the central nervous system, and in an autistic child, an autoimmune response prevents proper myelination of the developing central nervous system. But why?

Whenever a foreign protein gets into the blood stream, an antibody is formed that triggers an immune response to destroy that foreign protein or antigen. Casein and gluten from dairy and grains are very difficult for the human digestive system to breakdown completely to harmless amino acids. The undigested protein fragments may end up in the blood as antigens, which triggers an autoimmune response to destroy them. Here's the problem: Being complex proteins, casein and gluten are similar to other proteins in the body, so, due to a process called molecular mimicry, the antibodies begin to destroy those other body proteins as well. These proteins are found in the myelin sheath that protects the central nervous system and in other connective tissue such as the skin and digestive tract. The MMR vaccine appears to create a similar autoimmune response that causes antibodies to target similar body proteins.

I have MS. My son has Asperger's

To all-I can empathize with this group. I am a board-certified practicing doctor who had MS symptoms I ignored for 2 yrs prior to my son being born. Unfortunately, even while pregnant I had flares. I was Dx'd 6mo after(co-incidentally after stopping breast feeding) after when I took myself to the ER as I thought I had an ascending demyelinating illness. MS didn't factor into my mind at that time as all the in-patients I saw were primarily muscular and not sensory + weakness. The kind neurologist who saw me that night showed me my MRI and it was obvious. It looked like a XMAS tree all lit up. At 2yrs my son displayed symptoms I thought was a receptive aphasia (I was told he was a normal variant by my very sharp ped) but I knew something was wrong and by 2.5yrs he was Dx'd.

anti-myelin ab have been described in the literature in autism individuals although the link is not tight. I agree w/ the article-the link hasn't been looked at in a broad way and I think would be helpful. Perhaps early use of estriol in young females w/ MS thinking of getting pregnant may be useful. There is no suggestion that heavy metals play a part and NONE (in fact the Lancet article showing a link was a FRAUD, the article is completely retracted and the doc has lost his license). It just happens when you first notice autism when its most severe is also when kids are getting vaccined. Please get your autism kids their vaccines!

God bless and good luck-its exhausting to have MS and a kid w/ autism but luckily my son is now giving me hugs and reading. I borrow a phrase from the brits in WWII: Keep calm and carry on

My partner (now deceased) had MS her son has asburgers. As a result of the relationship I have friends with MS, some of there children have asburgers, it seems to be one child per couple.

Regards Mr. J. Lewis.

I have three children who have autism and had many ms symptom and for dizziness, migraines, tremors, memory loss the whole nine yards what I did find out is that diet sodas cause ms symptoms and may cause a person to think they have ms or possibly cause changes in your body I quit diet sodas in June 2011 and I'm so much better

My son is PDD-NOS and my husband`s brother has MS.

Holy Cow! I just stumbled upon this post looking up information on Coldplay. My son has autism and my husband has MS. This is incredible information!

ummm yes! because autism and MS are both mercury poisoning (I have chronic, severe mercury poisoning myself). this can come from dental amalgam or thimerosal in vaccines. mercury is passed in utero to the child. mercury poisoning causes allergies, chemical sensitivities, gastrointestinal problems, candida, etc.

Many diagnosed with MS can actually have something called Gluten Ataxia. Anyone with MS needs to be tested for gluten sensitivity. Since autism is sometimes thought to be connected with a gluten sensitivity as well, it makes sense that both could run in families.

A recent presentation by the Whittemore Peterson Institute for NeuroImmune Diseases has identified the common thread as XMRV, a newly identified retrovirus that many with MS, ME/CFS and Autism are infected by. See a review of the presentation given recently, including slides of familes showing XMRV and Autism here:

http://lannieinthelymelight.blogspot.com/2011/01/part-1-11711-xmrv-presentation-by-dr.html

My name is Marcia.
I am a mother of four.
A mother of PDD NOS son.
A mother who no longer feels alone in the thought of MS and autism related.

looking at this, i never thought this was common. i thought i was one of a small group of parents that have ms and actually 3 autistic sons. i was adopted as an infant, but was told my birthmother was bipolar. this is vry interesting.

My son (32) has both autism and MS. I've been wondering about a link since he was diagnosed with the MS last year. I have rheumatoid arthritis, and my grandfather had celiac's disease.

On one side of my family, everyone has either CFS, Aspergers or Multiple Sclerosis.

Thank you all for your input and support. By keeping in contact and continuing our discussion we can hopefully contribute to a solution to the problem. We can help our children, others, and ourselves in our situation. I thank everyone for the research that was sent, I will add it to my website: http://www.autoimmuneconnection.com
Please continue to send me updated information you may find as well as forward my website/email to anyone interested. Thanks again!
Sarah
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Regarding the vitamin D connection as it relates to autism and autoimmune diseases, I have read about the theory that the mycoplasmas block the VDR (vitamin D receptors). It may not be a matter of not enough intake of vit D, so much as a problem in the delivery mechanism.

The VDR is critical not only to the immune system functioning, I have read it plays a major role in the transcription of genes.

Mycoplasmas act like retroviruses, getting into their host cells and using it to replicate.

I won't pretend to understand the biochemistry of it all, but I sure as hell can connect the dots.

I personally have not met one single parent of a regressive ASD child that does not believe that their child's immune system somehow crashed. Most have observed the cyclical nature of the disorder and have witnessed temporary regressions and understand that it consistently runs its course, like a fever induced by a virus, before returning to baseline - ASD "normal". Others report improvements when the child is febrile as if the body is cooking (destroying) those very seem pathogens that cause ASD symptoms.

I believe the VDR and its relation to the mycoplasmas and/or retroviruses is your smoking gun. The rest of the stuff like the adjuvants, metals, GMOs, aspartame, MSG just stokes the fire.

Someone left a message about eye color. My Autistic son had the most beautiful blue eye's when he was born. At the age of 8-10 they turned green, and now at the age of 15 they are a light brownish red, the same color as his hair. What does eye color have to do with anything? Please copy your response to [email protected]

WOW!

My son has high level Autism, and I've had symptoms of MS for years. I've been tested and had the MRI's but one minute they have a diagnosis and the next they've changed their minds. At this point all the doctor's will consider is that I'm an over-imaginative Mom and I need to stop being tested. Neither of us is on any medication. My friends think I'm a hypocondriac. I've given up, but the symptoms again are returning. How do I get the doctor's to listen to me? [email protected]

Someone HAS investigated the link between autism and MS--the Vitamin D Council.

YES, mercury toxicity and vaccines are the culprits--but vitamin D deficiency seems to be at least one major reason why some of us can't excrete the mercury and other vaccine toxins while other people seem completely unaffected.

Here's how the Vitamin D Council explains it:
"Vitamin D's role in increasing glutathione levels may explain the link between mercury and other heavy metals, oxidative stress, and autism. For example, activated vitamin D lessens heavy metal induced oxidative injuries in rat brain. The primary route for brain toxicity of most heavy metals is through depletion of glutathione. Besides its function as a master antioxidant, glutathione acts as a chelating (binding) agent to remove heavy metals such as mercury. Autistic individuals have difficulty excreting heavy metals like mercury. If brain levels of activated vitamin D are too low to employ glutathione properly, and thus unable to remove heavy metals, they may be damaged by heavy metal loads normal children easily excrete. ***That is, the mercury in Thiomerosol vaccines may have injured vitamin D deficient children while normal children would have easily bound the mercury and excreted it.***" (emphasis mine)

Please see
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-and-brain.shtml
and
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=vitamin+d+council+MS

It also looks like they have uncovered an enormous amount of peer-reviewed research supporting the D-deficiency/MS/autism link:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/researchMS.shtml and http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=vitamin+d+council+autism

Research has found a link see Robert Bransfields a Neuro Psychiatrist work at http://www.lymeinducedautism.com/lymeautismconnection.html
also the presentation by S Harris on the same page.
People can be infected with Lyme disease and just have mild symptoms which can pass on to the child who develops Autism especially following a vaccine. Vaccines are recognised in causing mild lyme disease symptoms to be come a full blown illness.

Lyme disease can present with a multisystem illness fatigue, ME/CFS, depression, arthritis, neurological often cyclical symptoms and patients are diagnosed with a spectrum of illnesses including MS.

The controversy over Lyme Disease is an International disgrace and patients must do their research throughly if their children have ASD and especially if one parent has any of the symptoms that could be Lyme Disease.

The testing for Lyme Disease can miss upto 50% of cases but there are doctors around the World who follow ILADS International Lyme and Associated Disease Society see www.ilads.org

If you look at my blog and put Autism in the search you will come up with some interesting presentations and videos.

http://lookingatlyme.blogspot.com/

Lyme Disease is not unique to the USA it is in Canada and every country in Europe also. Sadly the controversy is stopping medicine move forward with research.

The link between MS and other so called auto-immune disease and autism is a proven fact ..The reason for the link is explained in my site.
Autism is an infectious disease , caused by pathogens that are considered self my the immune system. The bugs neither culture or elicit an immune response..For more detail read my site
http://www.yeast-candida-infections-uk.co.uk/

Thank you for bringing attention to the link between autism in children and MS in parents.

I remember my dentist scoffing at the 60 Minutes report and thus causing me to delay my amalgam removal for several years. The medical profession poisons us and then prolongs the suffering with their ignorance, negligence and denial. Someday, I hope those responsible for injecting and implanting mercury will get their due. It's wreaked havoc on my family.

Does anyone believe Obama's kids are having amalgam fillings put in their teeth? Doubtful! Yet under Obama, the FDA's consumer website has PULLED the warning that amalgam fillings could cause neurological harm to children and fetuses. Here's the whole disgusting story of how dental industry interests trump health under this administration. Please read it:
http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/200911210292

Autism and MS will continue as long as our elected officials are in the pocket of industry.

My husband has progressive MS and our youngest son has autism. Husband's symptoms began (slowly and he was initially misdiagnosed) after a series of shots (including Hep B) that were required for international travel with the company he worked for.

He was doing fair until the 2004 flu shot. Both he and my younger son (who was under the age of 2) fell into the "high risk" category and were able to get flu shots (there was a shortage that year).

Within a year of receiving their flu shots, my youngest son went from a happy, healthy baby meeting milestones to a sick, unhappy toddler who was losing skills and receiving therapy. In that same year, my husband's eye sight and ataxia significantly worsened prohibiting him from work.

Husband's neurologist, son's developmental ped, and son's (former) general ped say coincidence. Son's DAN doctor has them both on B-12 and Vit D. Husband has tried many meds and swears the B-12 is only thing that gives some relief from overwhelming fatigue.

Studies linking autism and autoimmune in families:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10385847
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581261
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14595086

In my family it is Diabetes and Cancer. Several family members have diabetes.
Four people in my immediate family have now had cancer. I lost my brother about 4 years ago, watched my Mother go through Breast Cancer, then not quite two years ago I had cancer and this year my Father was diagnosed in June with cancer and passed away on June 21st barely 9 days after being diagnosed. I used to think our children are the "toxic tipping point" in a world gone mad. Now it has finally dawned on me......We are the toxic tipping point, our generation and our children are the result of this, and because the poisoning just continues, our children show the results as toddlers. What used to take a lifetime of poisoning and bad habits, no happens almost instantaneously with life for our kids.
This summer I met a new local family with an autistic child when my daughter tried out for local theater. The Mom was in the play and told me about her son with autism and a few days later told me about her cancer. That should be the next book "BEYOND THE TOXIC TIPPING POINT".

I have a friend who gradually lost sensation in her legs. She was diagnosed with MS and began treatment. The doctor advised her to also see a nutritionist which was the turning point for her in this journey. Come to find out she was a long time Weight Watchers dieter and consumed a great deal of aspartame in sugar free drinks and desserts. Her nutritionist told her to stop all aspartame and her symptoms disappeared. The MS diagnosis was changed to aspartame poisoning. Interesting how some people can drink a dozen diet Cokes a day and be fine and others cannot tolerate aspartame...a lot like our kids with toxins.

Dr Kendal Stewart has done a lot of research into MS and related disorders as a board certified neurotologist, and also found a high % of parents of ASD kids who suffer from these (including myself). His treatment protocol has been recovering our entire family from neuro-immune disorders. You may want to contact him. Good Luck!

My neuro is trying to figure me out. I have the same epilepsy as my son (that is pretty darn common too, moms with epilepsy kids with autism).

I have a ton of MS symptoms --but my MRI was ok. I have chronic inflammation too. She just ordered 11 vials of blood drawn from me and sent off to a lab.

We are all messed up. Every last one of us --whether you know it or not moms. B/c for years I was living like I was just fine. But when curiosity set in and I had all the tests run --that is when I acknowledged the MS symptoms, that is when I realized I was twitchy from seizures, that is when the EEG and blood work came back abnormal.

And I don't think anyone really cares to look into this.

I drew up a family tree that was very interesting!!! A bunch of autism and apraxia and "behavioral issues" on my sons generation. A bunch of "so-called psych" stuff on my generation. A bunch of auto-immune on my mom's generation.

Twelve years ago when my son was dx'd I was onto to all of this. I wrote it all down for the doctors at CHOPgh and they patted me on the shoulder and told me I shouldn't worry about such things and I shouldn't blame myself.

I told them that all us parents have the same stories and the same medical histories. That I don't blame myself, that I blame them for not paying attention.

We are all the same.

Yes, I was sick too. I recovered myself on the same exact thing my children recovered from autism on. I think the symptoms are different because I got sick as an adult, and my children got sick while developing. Yes, there is a connection between ill parents and children with autism.

Parents on an autism biomedical treatment listserv I co-moderate have reported having MS, Parkinson's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and clinical depression.

A friend of mine diagnosed with multiple sclerosis recovered greatly after mercury amalgam removal and chelation. She's out of a wheelchair.

What keeps people poisoned? The trade organizations that profit from mercury and aluminum use have vocally resisted change, dismissing these "anecdotes" as irrelevant coincidence even though clinical studies show otherwise.

Also, mercury is difficult to detect -- blood tests aren't sufficient. Chemists such as Dr. Boyd Haley and Andrew Hall Cutler, PhD have interesting theories regarding Hg body burden; see Cutler's books "Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment of Mercury Poisoning" and "Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities."

I was dx with ms. After five of the military's anthrax shots (35 mcg of thimerosal each!), one shot coupled with a flu shot (another 25 mcg of thimerosal!).

BTW - optic neuritis was first symptom for me that sent me to doc. Optic neuritis after anthrax shots is a known side effect.

I was dx with ms based on history of symptoms and the MRI. I didn't have a spinal tap which was, grossly enough, recommended by the neurologist. I'm like "is this for funsies?" Wouldn't change my actions (no prescription drugs) so why bother?

Neither of my kids are vax'd. I had a "reaction" when I was five years old, headed to kindergarten. I did the classic arch-backed crying all night long. Then I joined the military and got shot up with everything under the sun. I really think I have classic signs of Asperger's. High IQ, limited social skills (until about 7-8 years ago, after detox, etc), OCD (I live for repetition and patterns *even numbers only please, pyramid shapes, etc.).

No way in *hell* I will ever vaccinate either of my kids.

I also have MS and a 10 year old son with autism. We were diagnosed within one month of each other but had been living with our afflictions for a year at least. I feel your frustration and don't understand why there is little concern by the medical establishment.

Sarah, I'm so sorry for your diagnosis of MS. I have 3 vaccine injured children (2 fully recovered:). About 5 years ago, I began having very strange symptoms: everything hurt, blurred vision, dizziness, major anxiety, lethargic, major muscle weakness (I couldn't even jog to the end of my driveway), plus a multitude of other problems. All my tests kept coming back normal, so I was feeling they were thinking I had some "psychological disturbance". 10 years earlier, I had climbed Mt. McKinley. How could I have gone down hill so quickly? It wasn't just "normal aging". I feared I was going to end up in a wheelchair at age 43. Scary!
Anyway, as I was no stranger to biomed, I had my mouthful of amalgams removed, did a chelation protocol, dietary changes, targeted supplements, etc. I felt a little better. The thing that really ended up helping the most was a QRS mat (pulsed,electromagnetic therapy my DAN doc recommended). That was my major turning point to regaining my health. It's not inexpensive (around $2,700.00), but you can rent to own. Plus, the whole family can use it (it's good for a number of things, including sports med). Once I started with the QRS, I experienced a 6 month period of continued detox that my chelation hadn't taken care of. Was really amazing! Dr. Pawluk is the one who markets them here in the US (they were developed in Germany). If you go to www.bodyfields.com they will have a link to his website. He does fairly frequent phone conferences you can sign up and get all your questions answered. Now, instead of worrying about ending up in a wheelchair, I'm training for my first marathon. I am SO thankful for this product, and wonder why mofre DAN doctors aren't using this (or don't know about it?). I chelated all 3 of my kids, but if I'd known about the QRS, I would have tried that first (and believe the results would have been as good and faster with the QRS!). I hope this information helps you (and others). The beauty of the QRS is that it helps every cell in your body function better. Once you own it, it's yours to keep and use daily for as long as you need it. You do get a lot of bang for your buck. We all have limited resources. The QRS has been our best "tool" in our ever growing tool box of interventions we've tried over the last 16 years. Good luck to you! Hang in there!

I found the connection just last night and here it is. In this study they were talking about multiple injections. This is what they have to say.

Aluminum hydroxide injections lead to motor deficits and motor neuron degeneration

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819810/?tool=pubmed

"The behavioural outcomes in the second experiment reported here reinforce the pathological outcomes seen in the first studies. While the histological measurements from these studies are still pending, the extent of the behavioural deficits strongly suggests that we will observe widespread neuronal pathologies. The greater extent of the behavioural outcomes in this experiment may be related to the experimental paradigm that tripled the number of aluminum hydroxide injections."
"Overall, the results reported here mirror previous work that has clearly demonstrated that aluminum, in both oral and injected forms, can be neurotoxic [15,16,32,33]. Potential toxic mechanisms of action for aluminum may include enhancement of inflammation (i.e., microgliosis) and the interference with cholinergic projections [34], reduced glucose utilization [33], defective phosphorylation-dephosphorylation reactions [35], altered rate of transmembrane diffusion and selective changes in saturable transport systems in the blood brain barrier (BBB [36], and oxidative damage on cellular processes by the inhibition of the glutathione redox cycle [37]."

I can bet that the mon and child are both glutathione deficient.

Lyme disease can cause MS and Lyme disease can cause autism.

Mothers pass the Lyme bacteria to their babies in utero.

Lyme bacteria do not work on their own. The bacteria love mercury and keep the body from excreting it. Lyme disease disables the immune system and allows viruses to flourish.

People can have an asymptomatic infection with the Lyme bacteria. If they are infected but asymptomatic, they do not have Lyme disease. But if their body is overly stressed by anything--physical trauma, severe emotional trauma, vaccination, etc., the Lyme bacteria can come out of dormancy.

Lyme is not the only thing to treat, but for many, many people, it is an important part of the puzzle.

hi Sarah, I was really interested in your post as I have a friend who has lived with MS for years (and Crohns). She ended up having a child (a son) against all odds. She didn't even realize she was pregnant for awhile and had some kind of abdominal surgery before they found out! Her son has ADHD and they (docs) figure it was because of some of the meds she took for her conditions. On the other hand, MS has been seen as an auto-immune condition and they do say that people with auto-immune weaknesses are more likely to have a child with autism(especially difficult for the child to handle immunizations). I'm not sure about how this fits in with the new CCVSI treatments where they open up blockages in the veins of people with MS. This treatment sure has helped alot of people (trouble is the veins can re-collapse unless a stint is put in) and it seems to threaten the crap out of the pharma people. Imagine if a simple surgery could replace all the pain,anti-inflammatory and chemo drugs used for MS!!! I think MS is currently undergoing a radical re-thinking as to cause thanks to Zamboni's trials and it is really dividing the MS community. Saskatchewan (Canada) is even thinking of covering the surgery for people even though the procedure is still in its infancy. I will help my friend to get it done in India as she cannot walk well now. I know the MS community is becoming very divided over this new theory as to cause and the neuro at the Toronto clinic was absolutely nasty to my friend about even contemplating it. Her GP absolutely backs her up and basically said if it were him, he would do it. It reminds me so much of the issues involved with autism. I wish you the best of luck with getting better- you and your child.

Thank you for under-scoring what appears highly likely to be two conditions with common causalities and treatments.

Yesterday Ginger Taylor posted a link to a report of a child developing bilateral optic neuritis following H1N1. I think this may relate to this discussion.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/08/h1n1-vaccine-optic-nuritis-and.html

doctors miss the autism diagnosis for the same reason i agreed to the vaccine schedule for my now injured son. we all learned in school that the prevalence was 1 in 10,000 and you think statistically it's impossible.
i had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis following my college vaccine boosters and have a son with autism.

Here is a link to the 60 minutes program I mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzCRHcZ2GY