Re: JRA and Autism? My child has both now does anyone else? forgot....

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Forgot to mention that Isabelle also started having seizures at age 2

when her JRA symptoms began. This lasted around a year and " poof " ,

also gone now. They stopped just as mysteriously as they started,

around age 3. Just another example of how much research needs to be

done -- obviously the diagnosis of JRA includes a VAST list of

possible symptoms and we have yet to understand it. She also had

strange GI issues and we had her tested for Celiac's Disease at one

point. She is fine in that regard too now although I have been very

careful with her diet regardless of the negative results for CD. Ok,

now I think I've included all the stange details to our JRA story .

> >

> > My child was born with Down syndrome and had a lot of the typical

> > health issues that come with that. Then at 22 months old

developed

> > the systemic JRA and two days ago they diagnoses her with

autism. Now

> > we all know that they think JRA is an autoimmune thing and she

also

> > has an autoimmune issue with hypothyroidism. I did some research

on

> > them all and found one paper on a link but only one and the woman

who

> > wrote it told me she would love to do a study on kids with JRA and

> > Autism because she believes there might be some sort of link (I

> > emailed her). Do any of your children have autism and if so was it

> > starting to show around the same time they got JRA?

> >

> > Thanks

> > Kim

> >

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