I do not really agree that the vaccinations actually cause autism but maybe just getting so much at once that may be the problem added with the genetic disposition as well. I think not vaccinating can be far worse so u would just have them done but spread them bout and not let them do the big boosters all at once. I know I am going to hear about this from people but that is just what most of the facts actually point to.

Get them vaccinated. My father (67) and his brother both got the measles as children at the same time. His brother died and 6 weeks later both his parents died too. These illnesses are not something to mess around with. It makes me want to cry to think that there is a very real chance of them coming back. All of our children have problems but none of them are worse then death or being made into an orphen.

I also do not believe that there is any relation between vaccinations and autism. Because autism runs in my family and my reading of scientific research I believe it is most likely the result of a genetic mutation. Without vaccinations our children would be at risk of contracting other serious health conditions. This is my belief and I respect the views of others, although we may not agree.

If there is a family history of eczema, doctors are not supposed to vaccinate, just as they shouldn't if your child has a cold. But they do. Do not rely solely on what your peds says. They do get vacations and dinners and the like from pharmaceutical companies.

Eczema is an autoummune disease, not dermatological. Thus, steroids are typically prescribed. But they will still vaccinate.

Again, it boils down to research. Do plenty of it. It IS out there!

And keep up on the vitamins and good nutrition. Weve seen juicing help our family TREMENDOUSLY.

As people have pointed out, vaccines do not cause autism. Sorry, though, this is about to get long.

I think you are doing the right thing to ask the question. Some autistic kids have bad reactions to vaccines, some don't. Our son had two bad reactions, but later on, with a different vaccine, had no reaction at all.

Here is what I would recommend: Talk to your doctor and find out what vaccines are the highest priority. Give special consideration to vaccines that are "killed", and vaccines that prevent the more serious illnesses.

(The vaccine we gave our son recently was polio, for the reasons noted. Polio is more dangerous than most, and the vaccine is "killed", so it is very low risk. Our son had no reaction.)

Delay the vaccine until you are confident that your son is not sick. You do not want to vaccinate (in my opinion) if your son already has a cold or earache. The immune system works best when dealing with one issue at a time. For the same reason, ask your doctor if you can separate the various vaccines into the individual components. (I am not sure this will be possible. I think Merck claimed they stopped making separate Measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.)

MMR also contains a live virus. Although measles can be very severe, it usually is not. (Few serious doctors would recommend skipping the MMR vaccine, but plenty of doctors will work with you if you choose to put it off a few months.)

My son also has an ANA test result that may indicate an autoimmune disorder, and certain other allergies that might have contributed to the bad MMR reaction. Are such children more likely to have severe vaccine reactions? (Because of the studies of molecular mimicry and T lymphocytes, we suspect the answer might be “yes”, but studies, I think, are limited to rabbits.) We also suspect that this is a temporary reaction, but the only studies I have found relate to arthritis and lupus, not autism.

Similarly, we know that there is such a thing as infection-induced autoimmunity, and that many characteristics of autism are similar to an autoimmune disorder. These two dots are not connectable, because the vast, vast majority of micro-organisms do not lead to autoimmunity.

Based only on our own observation, our son had a bad reaction to the MMR, and his titer tests for all three diseases continue to increase more than a year later. I have spoken with one doctor who said this is not an issue at all, and merely indicates a healthy immune system. I have spoken with another doctor who said that steadily increasing titer tests might indicate problems dealing with the attenuated virus in the vaccine.

The lack of research on the issue is amazing. (If you do a search, you will be buried under a massive pile of links to various studies disproving the work of Andrew Wakefield.)

We now know that vaccines do not cause autism. We do not know if autistic people tend to have more severe reactions to vaccines. Sorry.