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Interesting and although I agree this could be one problem, this is not the answer for everyone. I am leaning more toward aspartame. I had a friend who had autistic twins and she was never on anti-depressants, but couldn't live without her diet Pepsi.
Way too many people have no idea the amount of chemicals they ingest every day.
Education is key and maybe that needs to be promoted more by doctors to pregnant women.
Way too many people have no idea the amount of chemicals they ingest every day.
Education is key and maybe that needs to be promoted more by doctors to pregnant women.
People want a quick fix and the system seems to promote "the pill" as a cure all. How many doctors truly ask people if they smoke too much, drink too much and eat too much of the wrong foods, and how many people truly admit they do. I have noticed they are coming up with some fancy ailments, that translate into, "you are overweight." Are doctors now afraid to tell people to lose weight and exercise, that it's a start to being healthy. This may be the hidden secret to curing depression........yardwork, clean house, declutter......
If anti-depressants are causing autism, what is it doing to long time users......many starting in their teen years.
People want a quick fix and the system seems to promote "the pill" as a cure all.
I agree with this completely. And then what happens is the same doctor prescribes additional pills to offset the side effects of the first pill. Next thing you know, you are taking 5 different pills for one ailment.
With side effects like these, it's a wonder that they still prescribe anti-depressants to anyone during pregnancy. Now they have added autism.
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Studies into antidepressant use and pregnancy have so far unearthed a number of associated risks; these include an increased chance of spontaneous abortion, major congenital malformations, premature birth, lower birth weight and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Other studies have, with various levels of confidence, found links between antidepressant use during pregnancy and a risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension and the possibility of neonatal withdrawal symptoms.
In another thread posters who are big proponents of mainstream medicine claim that one single glass of wine at the end of pregnancy is too far risky. I wonder what they would think about this?
Given enough time and money, you could produce a study with evidence to show that twirling your ring finger 7 times in a circle each morning while pregnant causes autism.
Given enough time and money, you could produce a study with evidence to show that twirling your ring finger 7 times in a circle each morning while pregnant causes autism.
I thought if you did that, it prevented pregnancies.
This article admits openly that the findings are shaky and that they are a long way from knowing all the causes of autism. But this is an interesting question to ask -- so many people take SSRIs on the assumption that they are safe if you are pregnant. And the sole reason you take them is to make changes in the way your brain works. One thing we clearly know about autism is that is starts in the womb -- sorry, antivaxxers -- with an explosion of brain growth, creating millions of extra cells that are not connected to each other normally. For all we know, SSRIs could cause such an explosion in the embryonic brain.
This is not a new issue. the question is whether the association is between autism and the drugs used to treat depression or autism and depression itself. Other studies support the link to depression rather than treatment for it.
The study in the OP is already drawing criticism, including the fact that the author has testified in lawsuits that anti-depressants cause autism. The judge in one such suit refused to allow her testimony.
"But the 'critical flaw' in the new research is that it doesn’t fully account for the fact that women suffering from psychiatric illnesses already have a greater risk of having children with ASD, says Roy Perlis, a psychiatric geneticist at Harvard University who consults for several biotechnology startups. Although the authors controlled for maternal depression, 'they don’t really have reliable measures of severity,' he says. As a result, there’s no way to tell whether the children were at higher risk because their mothers were taking more drugs or because the women had more severe depression. Several papers, including two from Perlis’s group, have looked at large numbers of women and children and found no increased risk for ASD after adjusting for the severity of maternal depression, he says. 'The risk travels with the disease, not the treatment,' he says."
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