Autism Becoming An Epidemic. Chemicals cited..

[livinwithmcs]

As possible cause. It's about time they figured out the link between autism and chemical usage. Here's the story:
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cf...UTISM-01-21-04

[sweetladyaz]

I totally agree whole heartedly with this article, thanks for posting it mama. I want to point out an important key note here...that there are problems with the immune system that might be caused my chemical exposure.

I have endometriosis and vitiligo....recently there has been much research suggesting that these are actually not necessarily genetic or random diseases...but are actually auto-immune disorders caused by exposure to chemicals either to my mother, grandmother, or myself as a fetus.

I think that in the very near future the will start putting the pieces together that many "new and rampant" diseases are caused by chemicals affecting our immune system. Endometriosis is a disease that was not around 200 years ago that they have record of. And now, 1 in FOUR women have it...and many go infertile because of it.

Thanks for posting that, it's a killer article.

[beanma]

interesting article. my dh has a neice with autism and it's been a particular fear of mine since having kids. we're pretty organic now, but i don't know how to avoid a lot of things like the pbde's. i guess we could just become luddites and throw out the computers, but then dh would be out of a job, too...

T sweetladyaz, i have vitiligo, too, mainly on my arms, but on my torso and a little on my legs, too. i also am hypothyroid. those two go together a lot and both can be autoimmune disorders. if you haven't already you might get your thyroid checked next time you see your doc just rule out your vitilgo being associated with undetected thyroid problems.