Here is my sons background. And this will have to do with a vaccine autism link so please do not blast me, hear me out. I understand many people on this board think that there is no connection.
He was born perfect and normal, met all milestones and did many physical milestones ahead of schedule. He was constantly sick as a baby, ears infections all the time, tubes at 7 months old and 2 more sets over thenext 3 years.
He had a reaction to his 9 and 12 month vaccines. Lost eye contact within a week of his 9 month and appeared deaf and stopped saying the few words he could say after his 12 month shots. After getting involved with a lawyer who researched his vaccine lot numbers we were told that he was given over 280 times the safe amount of mercury in his vaccines alone, over 32 times the safe amount of mercury from his first shot alone.
Mercury supresses the immune system making one septible to just about anything. My son had chronic respritory infections, ear infection, constipated then had diarrhea then constipated again. He was always going to the doctor for something. He was over antibioticed and ended up having yeast infections in his tummy confirmed by medical labs. When he was 2 we had testing done to see if he had developed any food allergies because the only things that he would eat were breaded items and milk/cheese items.
When we put him on a gluten casein free diet when he was 2 without testing for allergies. He gained eye contact, stopped head banging on the walls, and started to babble again, but not talk like he was doing. He had 3-4 words before he regressed in language.
Over the next year and 1/2 we did many tests including test for mercury toxicity and sure enough his body is so toxic in mercury, aluminum and lead his pediatrician couldn't believe that he was alive. Instead of doing a urine metals test after chelation which shows what the body is pulling out, we did a test out of Paris France that test the porphoryn levels inthe body we found out that his BODY was indeed toxic. Porphoryns will tell you what the bodys burdon is with heavy metals. It tells you the exact level of metals in your body and if chelation is needed.
www.labbio.net/pages/autisme_envir_intoxication_eng.htm
also this link www.labbio.net/pages/index_vh_eng.htm
We did hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help with inflammation in his brain which was detected by a SPECT scan. Everything we have done with our son has been proven by medical labs, not just guessing here and there and following a band wagon of treatments. This is really happening in many many kids with autism.
back to the food allergies:
His IgE levels were fine but his IgG food allergy levels were in the red zone. His peptide tests showed that he was not digesting the proteins gluten and casein. We had food allergy testing done on my younger son and he showed that he was not allergic to anything.
Back to mercury and autism:
There is proof that mercury fillings can make you mercury toxic just by breathing.
www.iaomt.org/smokingtooth.cfm
There is also proof that if a mother is mercury toxic and pregnant, the mercury mutates the DNA making the fetus mercury toxic b/c the mercury becomes part of it's DNA/genetics. This could be a reason why some kids react to the mercury in the vaccines the way that they do. I know that I had a mouth full of metal growing up, had more filling than you can imagine from eating too much candy, even swallowed one when I was 9.
pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/j.../ja065552h.html
pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/j.../ja056354d.html
pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/a.../ac050727b.html
My son did not have food allergies or signs of food allergies until his mmr shot. I have a younger son who was not vaccinated until he turned 2, at 2 we decided to give him 1 vaccine a year and start off with the Measeles vaccine, not MMR, but single measels. He broke out into a mild case of the measels within days and then had chronic diarrhea with undigested food coming out. We then had a food allergy test re done on him and he has 13 food allergies.
This is a very informative website of a place that we do most of our testing. You do not have to do testing through them. You can print out the information and give it to your doctor who may be able to do it locally. It took us a while to find a doctor that didn't have his head stuck so far up his mainstream medical rump, but we found one.
www.greatplainslaboratory.com/
It's very late. I need to get to sleep. Sorry for such a long post!