Maternal allergy/asthma link to ASD(?)

[SwirlingPurple]

Hi everyone,
I’m so sorry, I’m just posting here for traffic and I hope that’s ok.
I’m currently pregnant and suffering with allergies (dustmites, mainly) which is showing up in my bloods as high levels of Eosphonils, and physically presenting as eczema, occasional asthma, bunged up head, streaming nose etc.

I’ve come across a PubMed research document that “suggests” a link between maternal immune-mediated conditions (eczema is part of the list) and ASD/GDD. Does anyone here have any personal experience of this?

No. Autism is genetic.
And I'm sick of these ableist threads appearing every weekend.

It isn’t ableist. I’m genuinely intrigued by the research that specifically links to my current situation. According to the pubmed document, maternal asthma + allergy has been found to increase asd, therefore I’m reaching out to see if anyone has experience with this. Thank you fir taking the time to comment though

Can you link the research please?

Correlation =/= causation.

PubMed still hauls up Wakefield's 'research' as it quotes citations from studies dating back to the 1800s

What little evidence there is, is very weak, with one study showing a greater risk of ASD if the mother is obese and asthmatic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917177/

You’re not wrong. A few published items conclude “needs more research” and a Swedish study writes that there is a “slim link”. Some also say inhalers don’t affect fetal development and some say they do. It’s interesting yet obviously conflicting, it feels like simply just existing when pregnant will present health problems to mother and baby

Allergies also have a strong genetic component. Autism being strongly heritable doesn’t mean there aren’t other risk factors/comorbidities, including ones which are also heritable.

stupid answer

The paper you shared is a review of prior research and heavily biased towards an elimination of autism (i.e., eugenics). Speculation of causes of autism have existed as long as autism has been a 'thing', but the strongest evidence is that it is genetic and largely hereditary and nothing a mother does in pregnancy, or later in raising the child, will 'cause' autism.

As a previous poster just put, allergies (of any kind) are largely genetic so could be linked? I saw another study loosely linking maternal dairy allergy to ASD diagnoses of child in later life, which I found quite interesting

I would say if there is a correlation it's probably that both are caused by the same gene mutation rather than one causing the other. There's some really interesting research starting to happen into comorbidities of ADHD/autism and other conditions such as mass cell issues/allergies/heart problems/dysautonomia/connective tissue disorders (most commonly EDS) and so many others.
I expect years from now they will probably find a gene or multiple genes that impact it but right now it's barely begun to be researched and most data is correlational.

Also, you need to remember that women are so much less likely to be diagnosed as autistic so it's highly likely that women who give birth to autistic children have autism also, it's just probably not diagnosed.