fifth disease / parvovirus b 19 / slapped cheek and autism / asd/ aspergers

[StickleTick]

Hi, this is out of sheer curiosity. Son has just been diagnosed with autism. Does anyone have a coincidence of suffering from slapped cheek before 20 th week of pregnancy, and then having autistic child? I came into contact with the virus at the time, and was tested and found to be negative to antibodies, ie. Not immune.

Hi stickle, doo you have any evidence that you actually contracted it? Having negative antibodies doesn't mean you'll contract the illness, it just means you're not immune. My understanding is that you have IgG antibodies if you were infected in the past and IgM antibodies if infected recently.

If you had NO antibodies then you weren't infected at that point, enough to have an immune response. Unless you had evidence of contracting the virus or a later test showing igg/m antibodies, then it is probably fair to assume you didn't contract it.

I don't know about ASD, but the risk is definitely there for CMV, although even that varies in severity.