Unprovoked Seizures in First Year of Life May Signal ASD

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Article below this info

And why do they have seizures? Vaccine

injury. But they keep vaccinating and it progresses

to worse injury - ASD

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2001-08-29-vaccines.htm

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/seizures.html

http://www.whale.to/v/coulter1.html Info on seizures

toward the bottom of this

" The following significant adverse events have occurred following

administration of DTP vaccines: persistent, inconsolable crying >= 3

hours (1/100 doses), high-pitched, unusual crying (1/1000 doses), fever

>= 40.5degC (1/330 doses), transient shock-like (hypotonic,

hyporesponsive) episode (1/1750 doses), convulsions (1/1750

doses). " --TETRAMUNE (DTPH) (1996)

http://www.netlink.co.nz/~ias/tetram.htm At Whale

Court case--1998- Lampe--residual seizure disorder and subsequent

mental retardation

http://www.law.gwu.edu/fedcl/Opinions/Horn/98/Lampe2.htm

Court case--Kristy M. Henkel (1998)--seizures, tuberous sclerosis

( " TS " ).

http://www.law.gwu.edu/fedcl/Opinions//98/HENKEL.htm

Court case-- Plavin ( " " )--seizures (case denied)

(Aug 1998) http://www.law.gwu.edu/fedcl/Opinions/Tidwell/98/PlavinvUS.htm

Court case--Diane C. Lett (1998)--residual seizure disorder (case

affirmed)

http://www.law.gwu.edu/fedcl/Opinions//98/LETT.htm

Court case-- Hanlon (March 1998)--seizure disorder (case denied)

http://www.law.gwu.edu/fedcl/Opinions//98/HANLON.htm

Court case-- Leah Reiss-Plavin ( " " )

(1998)--residual seizure disorder ( " RSD " )--- received her

first Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus ( " DPT " ) vaccination on

August 4, 1989 at the age of two months. She received her second DPT

vaccination on September 15, 1989, In November 1989, was diagnosed

with Tuberous Sclerosis ( " TS " ), a neurocutaneous genetic

disorder affecting the skin and nervous system.

Sheri

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575066

Unprovoked Seizures in First Year of Life May Signal Autism

Spectrum Disorder

Busko

May 27, 2008 (London, United Kingdom) ­ In a population-based study of

close to 100 children from Iceland who had unprovoked seizures in the

first year of life, 13.7% went on to have an autism spectrum disorder

(ASD).

Having symptomatic seizures (with a known cause) as opposed to

nonsymptomatic or cryptogenic seizures (with an unknown cause) was

associated with an almost 9-fold higher risk of subsequent autism.

Evald Saemundsen, PhD, from the division of autism and communication

disorders, State Diagnostic and Counseling Center, in Kopavogur, Iceland,

reported these findings in an oral presentation at the 7th Annual

International Meeting for Autism Research.

" A history of seizure in the first year of life should attract

attention to the possibility of subsequent ASD, particularly in cases

where seizures are of symptomatic origin, " he said.

Epilepsy and ASD

Epilepsy (recurrent, unprovoked seizures) was 1 of the first

biological factors associated with autism, Dr. Saemundsen noted. Cases

studies have reported a high prevalence of autism in children with

previous infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. But it was unknown whether

other unprovoked seizures in the first year of life present a risk of

ASD.

The researchers aimed to determine whether there was a link between

unprovoked seizures in the first year of life and ASD.

They examined hospital records from 1982 to 1998 to identify all

pediatric patients in Iceland who had been diagnosed with seizures during

their first year of life.

Of the 121 children they identified, 5 had died and 1 lived abroad. The

parents of the remaining 115 children were contacted, and 95 parents

consented to allow their children ­ 61 girls and 34 boys, with a mean age

of 11 years ­ to participate in the study.

The parents replied to the social communication questionnaire, which was

used as an initial test of the children's autistic behaviors. The

children were then assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised

(ADI-R) and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and/or the

Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS).

Of the 95 children, 17 had infantile spasms and 78 had other types of

seizures.

A total of 13 children ­ 8 girls and 5 boys ­ had ASD. All but 1 had

intellectual disability, and 6 had profound intellectual disability (IQ

< 20).

Of the 13 children with ASD, 6 had infantile spasms, and 7 had other

types of epilepsy. The children with infantile spasms were more likely to

have subsequent ASD than were children with other types of epilepsy (odds

ratio, 1.55; 95% CI, 0.33 – 7.37).

Symptomatic Seizures Strongly Predicted ASD

Children with seizures of symptomatic origin, irrespective of type,

were nearly 9 times more likely to develop ASD than were those who had

nonsymptomatic seizures (OR, 8.73; 95% CI, 1.88 – 40.54).

The high prevalence of ASD (13.7%) in children with unprovoked seizures

in the first year of life that was found in this study warrants further

investigation, said Dr. Saemundsen.

The article about the current study is about to be published, he told

Medscape Psychiatry.

7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research: Oral

Presentation 113.7. May 15-17, 2008.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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