a sensitive question

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I've name changed for this but am a regular. Does anyone have any statistics for the likelihood of autism occurring across families? What are the chances of a baby in one of my sibling's families being on the spectrum, seeing as DS has ASD? I've heard the 1:20 figure quoted for the chance of a recurrence within the same family but have never seen anything that referred to the wider family, iyswim.

/hijack re:casein intolerance.

DS is drinking lots more milk than normal because it's the only thing he'll drink (he's got a very nasty virus that's giving him asthma type symptoms). Normally I never let him have milk at home, let him have a small carton at nursery breaktime, because he used to have this weird addiction/intolerance thing with milk - drinking 4 pints a day and terrible stools.

Last night and just now his face is very flushed (naturally when I took him to the GP this morning he was completely unflushed). Does anyone know if this ruddiness could be caused by the milk? DS has also been taking prednisolone for a few days for his chest.

I don't know if it could be milk, TC, but my DD did have scarlet fever and a red rash on her cheeks in particular was one sign - it's actually not as bas as it sounds nowadays and a quick course of antibiotics sorts it out, but just thought I'd mention it. It has to be linked to a sore throat too I think.

thanks for the reply amam. The redness has gone (and DS hasn't had any milk at all today!) so I strongly suspect that milk was the culprit.