Diagnosis of autism burst In recent years. Now, about 1 in 31 American children suffer from autism – from 1 out of 59 In 2014– However Reports of Centers Control and Prevention. 2024 TicketMeanwhile, the number of children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder has increased by 175 % over a decade.
The current conversation about autism is the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who is in a press conference On Wednesday, it brought more urgency to the high diagnoses – causing “environmental tusn”.
Kennedy said: “Someone achieved a profit by placing that environmental poison in the air, our water, our medicines, and our food, and re -his interest to normalize it. But this is not good for our country,” Kennedy said.
Autism spent disorder (ASD) is a disability of growth from the differences in the brain, according to CDC. Although some ASD people have a specific difference – such as a genetic condition – other reasons are yet unknown.
Scientists believe that multiple causes can work together, but more research must be done. A recent study outside China, for example, I created a connection Between diabetes – diabetes during pregnancy, which affects up to 9 % of American pregnancy – autism (as well as brain and other nervous system problems).
At the press conference on Wednesday, Kennedy announced that the administration will consider all the “potential perpetrators”. Kennedy, a well -known vaccine, skeptical, Be established The Organization for the Defense of Children’s Health – which the task is “ending the childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure” – after the mothers of children with treatment in the relationship between mercury (in water supply and in vaccines, through skiing on the portfolio) and autism.
“You have to ask yourself: Why is it very widespread?” The Secretary HHS said on Wednesday.
Below, Kennedy announced the five “toxins” that he will search – and what science says about each of them.
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One of the potential perpetrators Kennedy was the mold. While two methodological reviews of previous studies – one, From 2021Looking at 11 studies, and another, from 2018– Possible links between fungal toxins emitted from some molds and the development of autism, no final causal effect has been created.
“Information reviewed indicates that exposure to mold and fungal toxins can affect the nervous system, directly or by activating immune cells, and thus contributing to nervous growth disorders such as autism spectrum disorder,” the authors of review 2018 wrote.
Food additives
Kennedy said that food additions will also be investigated, and so far the relationship between these additions and ASD was not clear. one Filter analysis from 2020 I found that food dyes can be associated with ASD, but they could not create them categorically as a reason. and 2019 study From the University of Central Florida, ASD is likely to link mothers who consumed the processed foods that contain the preservative probionic acid (PPA), which may change how the fetus’s brain develops during pregnancy.
Pesticides
As for pesticides, also in the Kennedy list, a A study from last year I found that the regions in southern Spain with increased use of pesticides have a greater spread than ASD, indicating a link between increased exposure to environmental pesticides and autism.
A 2023 systematic review He suggested that more research should be done in this field, but the mother’s era may be an important factor in the body, as the concentration of pesticides in the body increases with age, and thus the ages of mothers are more associated with an increase in the risk of uniting in their children.
The authors also suggested that exposure to pesticides can work alongside other factors that may be harmful or beneficial for the development of the nervous system, such as lifestyle, social, economic, educational, or race, or sex.
pharmaceutical
While Kennedy did not explicitly refer to vaccines as one of the possible causes of autism, he said that they will discuss “medicines” and their relationship to autism.
he He was recently appointed Skeptical vaccine to reconsider results Wickfield studies revealed These vaccines associated – especially the measles vaccine, mumps and measles (MMR) – to autism. But no Common medications Take during pregnancy and no VaccinesIncluding a mmr shot, it turns out to be connected with ASD.
One of the most Famous such studies From Denmark, 537303 children, 82 % of them received a mmr vaccine. It found that the risk of autism among the children who were vaccinated is the same in unjust children, and there was no connection between age at the time of vaccination, time since vaccination, or the date of vaccination and the development of autism.
Ultrasound
Kennedy referred to ultrasound – an energy -based diagnostic tool in the form of sound waves from tissues and bones to create images – as another area of exploration. He believes that there is a “schedule” that is in line with the high rates of autism and the spread of ultrasound technology, which Become more common In prenatal care in the 1960s and 1970s. but, Studies have found This is it Unrelated Between ultrasound and ASD.
the The American Academy of Gynecology and Gynecology It confirms that there is no evidence that ultrasound is harmful to the developing fetus. However, the Academy recommends that pregnant women get medical ultrasound only because “the effects can be identified in the future.”
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