Merthiolate and Autism - Asperger's Syndrome
"Urine Testing Confirms Autism is Mercury Poisoning" announces research results. "This study utilized urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess body-burden and physiological effects of mercury in children diagnosed with ASDs...." (A Prospective Study of Mercury Toxicity Biomarkers in Autistic Spectrum Disorders" by Mr. David A. Geier and Dr. Mark R. Geier has been published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (volume 70, issue 20, pgs 1723-1730).)
Thinking back, I wonder what year that the OTC antiseptics "Merthiolate" and "Mercurichrome" were pulled from the store shelves?
I recall the pale yellow Merthiolate (Thimerosol) was always widely spread all over my skin in response to every cut or abrasion I had as a kid. Lots of times; skinned knees especially got lots of the yellow stain applied. Best antiseptic around, stopped infection of the skin right there, no matter how nasty the dirt nor deep the wounds.
Iodine was also available, but it stained darker and was not as effective at killing the pathogens on the skin, so it was rarely used.
Unfortunately and unknown at the time, the Thimerosol mercury-based antiseptic got absorbed into the body as the wounds healed, becoming toxic to the central nervous system when food allergies prevented adequate elimination of the mercury.
Added to the Thimerosol used in the abundant vaccines I got as a child, that adds up to lots of bioactive mercury I took in while I was growing up.
The mercury-based powerful antiseptic called Merthiolate was always in the medicine cabinet. Good stuff. The cap had a glass rod attached to it and had a rounded end, the wetted glass rod would carry the antiseptic to be wiped all over the skin near any wound. As I grew up, I always used it on skin wounds to prevent infection, spread abundantly even inches around the actual wound, don't let even nearby germs get near the wounds; seems to me at least until the mid 1950's when I went to college.
I have a photo my mother had taken of me when I was four years old, showing my response to being asked a question, and my eyes would always look up and away when I was struggling to answer the question; she thought that was very strange that I did that. She believed that the photo would eventually mean something some day. She was right. "Joint Attention" struggles to process facial communication cues took all the mental processing space; so moving the eyes away from this intense facial attention source allowed me to process the question and seek the answer, and put it into words so as to comply with the request.
So Asperger's Syndrome is primarily caused by organically-bound mercury poisoning via common antiseptics of the time, inadvertently administered. Food allergies complications prevented adequate elimination of the mercury toxins, so the mercury got stored in the body tissues, and caused dysfunctions where in the central nervous system.
The advancement of medicine learns through time. Everyone does their best, all things considered. Finger-pointing is a waste of effort (unless there has been deliberate assault) so all effort needs to be applied to fixing the problems best possible.
And ... finally figuring out what caused frequent and seemingly inexplicable odd difficulties in my life, especially social connection difficulties that others did not seem to have, brings a sense of peace to me now. To solve a problem, the definition of the problem needs to be correctly determined first.
The daily consumption of fresh Cilantro, and of Chlorella-containing nutritional supplements, is on the right track, to enable the binding and elimination of the mercury when it gets temporarily freed into the bloodstream during the body's endless re-building processes. Avoiding wheat gluten also helps re the food sensitivity part of the problem, struggling with damage control.
PostScript: A contrary-seeming report has now also been published, although it refers to a study funded by the CDC but does not list the doers of the study. The article about the report about the study is published in my favorite science publication since I was in High school, "Science News" (Week of Sept. 29, 2007; Vol. 172, No. 13, p. 197.) Quoting: ""I think it's one more piece of evidence that thimerosal doesn't have any negative association with health outcomes"... The researchers combed the health plans' records to assess how much thimerosal each child received through the first 7 months of life... "We found no consistent pattern between increasing mercury exposure ... and performance on neuropsychological tests"...."
My comment now is that scientists need to be kept out of the arena of the massive lawsuits in court of law. That is not their turf, crushing easily under such foreign powerful pressures. Those of the "blaming game" are quite toxic to those who strive to daintily sniff out the totally unbiased truths about what stitches our world together in the natural world. Scientists often have chosen the fields of science in part because it is escape from the gladiatorial romps of the people-world's hoopla. Drag them onto that stage and expect to hear whatever you want to hear from the somewhat terrified baffled lab folk. Even in the better forms of science, it is very difficult to design unbiased experiments that are on the fringe of discovery. Those whose motives are of the finger-pointing-liability kind might see the Science News' CDC-sponsored report as conflicting with the report with which I started this blog entry; but actually the report via CDC had to do with vaccine manufacturer liability issues related to a mercury-containing antiseptic they used to prevent spoilage, done during a time known to be under scrutiny. In great contrast, the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health's report had to do with direct measurements of mercury being eliminated in urine from people whose difficulties were clearly observable. They were not pointing at sources of the mercury poisoning. They were merely showing clear connection between mercury and autism. And I would conjecture that their hope is to find ways to cure, and prevent, Autism Spectrum Disorder occurrence in people. Continual error-correction is an intrinsic part of travel down the pathways of life. Correct feedback is essential for the safest journey.
Thinking back, I wonder what year that the OTC antiseptics "Merthiolate" and "Mercurichrome" were pulled from the store shelves?
I recall the pale yellow Merthiolate (Thimerosol) was always widely spread all over my skin in response to every cut or abrasion I had as a kid. Lots of times; skinned knees especially got lots of the yellow stain applied. Best antiseptic around, stopped infection of the skin right there, no matter how nasty the dirt nor deep the wounds.
Iodine was also available, but it stained darker and was not as effective at killing the pathogens on the skin, so it was rarely used.
Unfortunately and unknown at the time, the Thimerosol mercury-based antiseptic got absorbed into the body as the wounds healed, becoming toxic to the central nervous system when food allergies prevented adequate elimination of the mercury.
Added to the Thimerosol used in the abundant vaccines I got as a child, that adds up to lots of bioactive mercury I took in while I was growing up.
The mercury-based powerful antiseptic called Merthiolate was always in the medicine cabinet. Good stuff. The cap had a glass rod attached to it and had a rounded end, the wetted glass rod would carry the antiseptic to be wiped all over the skin near any wound. As I grew up, I always used it on skin wounds to prevent infection, spread abundantly even inches around the actual wound, don't let even nearby germs get near the wounds; seems to me at least until the mid 1950's when I went to college.
I have a photo my mother had taken of me when I was four years old, showing my response to being asked a question, and my eyes would always look up and away when I was struggling to answer the question; she thought that was very strange that I did that. She believed that the photo would eventually mean something some day. She was right. "Joint Attention" struggles to process facial communication cues took all the mental processing space; so moving the eyes away from this intense facial attention source allowed me to process the question and seek the answer, and put it into words so as to comply with the request.
So Asperger's Syndrome is primarily caused by organically-bound mercury poisoning via common antiseptics of the time, inadvertently administered. Food allergies complications prevented adequate elimination of the mercury toxins, so the mercury got stored in the body tissues, and caused dysfunctions where in the central nervous system.
The advancement of medicine learns through time. Everyone does their best, all things considered. Finger-pointing is a waste of effort (unless there has been deliberate assault) so all effort needs to be applied to fixing the problems best possible.
And ... finally figuring out what caused frequent and seemingly inexplicable odd difficulties in my life, especially social connection difficulties that others did not seem to have, brings a sense of peace to me now. To solve a problem, the definition of the problem needs to be correctly determined first.
The daily consumption of fresh Cilantro, and of Chlorella-containing nutritional supplements, is on the right track, to enable the binding and elimination of the mercury when it gets temporarily freed into the bloodstream during the body's endless re-building processes. Avoiding wheat gluten also helps re the food sensitivity part of the problem, struggling with damage control.
PostScript: A contrary-seeming report has now also been published, although it refers to a study funded by the CDC but does not list the doers of the study. The article about the report about the study is published in my favorite science publication since I was in High school, "Science News" (Week of Sept. 29, 2007; Vol. 172, No. 13, p. 197.) Quoting: ""I think it's one more piece of evidence that thimerosal doesn't have any negative association with health outcomes"... The researchers combed the health plans' records to assess how much thimerosal each child received through the first 7 months of life... "We found no consistent pattern between increasing mercury exposure ... and performance on neuropsychological tests"...."
My comment now is that scientists need to be kept out of the arena of the massive lawsuits in court of law. That is not their turf, crushing easily under such foreign powerful pressures. Those of the "blaming game" are quite toxic to those who strive to daintily sniff out the totally unbiased truths about what stitches our world together in the natural world. Scientists often have chosen the fields of science in part because it is escape from the gladiatorial romps of the people-world's hoopla. Drag them onto that stage and expect to hear whatever you want to hear from the somewhat terrified baffled lab folk. Even in the better forms of science, it is very difficult to design unbiased experiments that are on the fringe of discovery. Those whose motives are of the finger-pointing-liability kind might see the Science News' CDC-sponsored report as conflicting with the report with which I started this blog entry; but actually the report via CDC had to do with vaccine manufacturer liability issues related to a mercury-containing antiseptic they used to prevent spoilage, done during a time known to be under scrutiny. In great contrast, the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health's report had to do with direct measurements of mercury being eliminated in urine from people whose difficulties were clearly observable. They were not pointing at sources of the mercury poisoning. They were merely showing clear connection between mercury and autism. And I would conjecture that their hope is to find ways to cure, and prevent, Autism Spectrum Disorder occurrence in people. Continual error-correction is an intrinsic part of travel down the pathways of life. Correct feedback is essential for the safest journey.
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