Another phenotypic distinction we are investigating is early-onset versus
regressive autism, as defined by the language and social regression questions on the ADI-R and the CDQ.
A team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina are currently examining 275 children with
regressive autism and bowel disease.
I do know that symptoms of
regressive autism often start around the same time that children receive their first dose of the MMR vaccine and this, for many, is far more than a coincidence.
She said studies conducted on the issue had been based on large-scale populations and were 'too insensitive to pick up the rarer cases of
regressive autism with bowel disorder which some families are convinced may have been triggered by MMR'.
She said studies conducted on the issue had been based on large-scale populations and were "too insensitive to pick up the rarer cases of
regressive autism with bowel disorder which some families are convinced may have been triggered by MMR".
3) Panenteric IBD-like disease in a patient with
regressive autism shown for the first time by wireless capsulenteroscopy: Another piece in the jig-saw of the gut-brain syndrome?
Tests carried out on children with
regressive autism have shown the presence of measles virus in the bowel, blood and spinal fluid, therefore in the brain.
It makes me so angry, " she said: "My son has suffered typically
regressive autism after he had the DPT jabs in Australia, and fell seriously ill with chronic diarrhoea.
In the past five years hundreds of parents have been convinced that the form of
regressive autism their children suffer from has been caused by a reaction to MMR.
Stephen Walker, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, studied children with
regressive autism and bowel disease.
