Chicago Tribune news : Print Edition - Sunday Perspective

Chicago Tribune news : Print Edition - Sunday Perspective

This is one issue that has been around for a couple of decades now. It not only involves the concerns of parents who are worried about the mercury in vaccines, but also about the mercury in dental fillings. "It is only a trace amount," "There are no conclusive studies to prove it," are just a couple of the refrains that are often heard. Our special needs daughter began having seizures within six weeks of exposure to mercury through breastmilk. We have no way of knowing for sure whether this was the causative factor. No doctor would consider this as a cause. It is much easier to say that a condition is of unkown origin than to consider the possibility that a know toxin could lead to a life-altering condition, including brain damage and seizure disorder.

We know that the rate of autism has increased drastically in the past couple of decades and that as mandatory immunizations are forced on children there has continued to be a manifold increase in autism and autistic-like conditions. It is like swimming upstream, though, to find physicians who will even consider the possibility that mercury, even in trace amounts, can have deliterious effects on the developing brain. There is most likely something to it, at least to those children that may be more susceptible to mercury. Is there an adequate way to screen for those children? Not that is known to date. And there won't be as long as the major medical groups continue to promote the immunizations at all costs... even though the parents are the ones that have to live with it on a day to day basis.