What do you believes is the cause of Autism?

Question

I have made a post but now it come to the points that people still don't think is it.

I said that not every damages to the brain causes autism.

With all dues respect, I have concerns that our medical industries are still in dark ages when come to causes of autism.

In my prievious message, I have autism dues to the strep bacteria. The strep is a flesh eating bacteria. There is no way would I have gotten autism then what I said. Yet the medical are still not going to say it cause it.

Let me qoutes from Sherlock Holmes, he said this...

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

You cast your opinions.

Answer 1

There has been a lot of speculation that the MMR vaccine in particular can cause autism. I personally disagree with that completely. The studies which "showed" this were poorly reported and even more poorly performed. But, a lot of what I have seen suggests that autism is genetic in nature. In fact, I know a family who had two autistic children, and nothing they know of caused it, other than genetics.

Diseases may affect the nervous system and cause autism. It's possible that strep may have caused it. Some suggest that intestinal inflammation from certain diseases can cause autism as a side-effect. The factuality of this claim is still being studied.

Basically, you hit the nail on the head when you said that the medical field is in the dark ages about the causes of autism. Unfortunately, there are many diseases that we don't know the cause. Autism is a poorly understood condition and not only are they in the dark about the causes, but also the treatment.

Answer 2

There is a genetic link to autism for sure. There are a few genes that are present more consistently in victims of autsim, but it is not entirely consistent! Not even the experts completely (to the near 100% percentile) know because research and the journals consequently produced to report findings are to some degree contradictory. Nonetheless there is a thread of consistency between autism and genetics.

There are other controversial ideas also such as the link between vaccine and autism as well as many others that are less supported ideas regarding viral illness during pregnancy, and diet and most outdatedly poor parenting was blamed. This idea is now abandoned.

The most dominant cause seems to be genetic susceptibility combined with the effects of vaccines.

Answer 3

I am not convinced either way. There are compelling arguments on both sides AND compelling evidence for both sides. I have chosen to get my children vaccinated, however, at a slower pace. Vaccinations CAN make a child sick though. My son was vaccinated with the Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis... vaccine and he was sick the next day. I didn't think anything of it until he broke out with a nasty case of eczema. We brought him to an allergist because it was thought that it could be an allergy and the testing showed no allergy to food or environment. About a week and a half later the eczema just cleared up on its own. I asked the allergist if something in the vaccination could have caused this and he said absolutely. My son could have had a sensitivity to something within the shot itself that caused the outbreak of eczema.

Answer 4

Autism can be caused by several things.

Some believe that MMR vaccination can cause.

Or it can be a genetic flaw. Families that aready have autistic family members may be at great risk.

Food allergies have all so been blamed for some autistics.

There has been some evidence that the immune system has been linked to autism. and some evidence of atypical brain grow causing autism.

But I've Never heard of a strep infection causing Autism. Not all forms of strep is flesh eating bacteria.

Answer 5

First, not all forms of strep is flesh eating. Second, there is NO evidence or even thinking that autism is because of a strep infection. Third, autism runs in families. All of the families I know that have autism in it have SEVERAL kids with it. It is plain and simple genetics. Nothing else.

Answer 6

You may have a point - since the opinion of the day is that autism may be caused by vaccines. My understanding is frequently, vaccines are made from strains of the disease they are protecting us against.
I wonder, how old were you when you contract Strep A?
I think it's important to not narrow our views as far as possible causes. There could very well be a prenatal effect that influences the disorder. Plus there is several disorders in the spectrum of autistic disorders with various severity.
Stay well.

Answer 7

I think that what is defined as autism can actually be the same neural response to different injuries or diseases. Vaccines can certainly be one them, and the problem with vaccines is the level of mercury. Increased amounts of fish that contain mercury eaten by a mother can effect her child.

The industrialized world we live in can certainly cause more harm than good. There are a lot of chemicals out there that people have no idea about. We can't begin to think we know it all, and how it affects us.

Answer 8

I don't know as there are so many things these kids are exposed to that we don't know about these days however I would suggest you check Autism and lead poisoning....I did that and feel there could be a connection. Look it up ...You'll see what I'm talking about. Also check mercury as it is contained in some of the vaccines these children must take.

Answer 9

When my son got an MRI for a seizure disorder (turned out to me non-convulsive epilepsy) they found a damaged area....the damage happened before birth. Its not from me having too much caffiene or drugs...more of a trauma kind of thing (tho I never fell or anything) His neurologist (whom i ADORE) sd that was definitely the reason for the epilepsy and could very well be the reason for the PPD.

Answer 10

Theres several causes in my opinion. the one I believe the most is the idea of a chemical imbalance of 2 brain chemicals. Dopamine and serotonin they say are hypersensitive is autism.