Forgive me, I cannot believe one would even contemplate a remedy with which to treat this child withOUT taking a proper case! And, no less, on the internet via third-hand [scarce] information.

And, because a remedy 'sounds like it might be the one'? Huh?? Just what is that based on?

Does anyone else think it wise to 'try' out remedies in a case such as this?

For this child's sake, please at the very LEAST take a proper case.

Better yet, take the child to a properly trained Homeopath that can see him FACE to FACE for a proper consultation as Chris so wisely advised earlier.

Someone else posted in another thread that they travel 2 days to see their homeopath.

I travel 4000 miles (YES, four thousand miles) to see mine every year, with follow-ups in the interim via telephone. So, I truly understand not having access to a good Homeopath nearby for ease, practicality and convenience, BUT there is NO substitute for proper care in a case such as this.

Believe me, I appreciate wanting to help someone, but please do not do this in haste or out of desperation.

Going ahead ('trying a remedy') via advice from the internet, without basing this on the full case, is irresponsible at best - even with the best of intentions at heart - and, dangerous at worst.

[ 01 December 2001: Message edited by: LisaAnnan ]</p>

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This from the lyghtforce list about vaccinations:

London Daily Telegraph 12/2/01

Anti-MMR doctor is forced out
By Lorraine Fraser, Medical Correspondent
(Filed: 02/12/2001)

THE specialist who first raised concerns about the safety of MMR vaccinations
has been forced out of his job, The Telegraph can reveal.
Andrew Wakefield, a consultant gastroenterologist whose research has linked the
vaccine to autism and bowel disease in children, said last night that he had
been asked to resign because of his work.
"I have been asked to go because my research results are unpopular," said Dr
Wakefield, an academic at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in London whose
research into the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccination has caused
controversy.

"I did not wish to leave but I have agreed to stand down in the hope that my
going will take the political pressure off my colleagues and allow them to get
on with the job of looking after the many sick children we have seen.
"They have not sacked me. They cannot; I have not done anything wrong. I have no
intention of stopping my investigations."
He has been testing the theory that measles virus from MMR vaccine can colonise
the bowel of susceptible children, producing inflammatory bowel disease, which
then, via a disruption of the chemical balance in the body and the brain, leads
to autism.
Although the specialist admits he has not published proof, he has infuriated
ministers by suggesting that the three component vaccines should be given
separately.
Dr Wakefield's departure comes a month after he was made a Fellow of the Royal
College of Pathologists in recognition of his research work.
He left his £50,000 job on Friday after 14 years having been told that his ideas
were "unwelcome" at University College London, which controls the Royal Free.
The news will please vaccination programme officials in the Public Health
Laboratory Service. They have ridiculed his research and still insist that MMR,
recommended officially for every child at around 13 months and again at four
years, is safe.
He added last night: "I am very concerned that I have been unable to gain any
guarantee from the hospital that the children we have already seen, and who need
to be seen, will be looked after".
Parents of autistic children involved in his research expressed their anger last
night. Some demanded reassurances that the Royal Free Hospital will continue
treating their children.
Dr Wakefield's research has made him a pariah of the medical establishment. As a
result, the World Health Organisation felt obliged to announce its support of
the MMR vaccine.
The Government has played down concerns since he published a paper in The Lancet
in 1998, reporting that he and colleagues had identified a hitherto unknown
combination of bowel damage and autism in children whose parents said their
previously normal children fell ill after MMR.
The row became a crisis last January when Dr Wakefield told The Telegraph that
he had seen almost 170 children with a similar story and claimed that the
Department of Health's contention that MMR had been proven to be safe did not
"hold up".
That number, has now reached almost 200. Pressure on the children's
gastroenterology unit is so great that it's waiting list risks breaking the
NHS's 18-month limit. Parents have appealed to Tony Blair to give it more funds.
The Royal Free Hospital Medical School was unavailable for comment last night.

Felix,

Thanks for the shocking news.

Snoopy

I agree with what Lisa has said.

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A homoeopath from the lyghtforce list has this email address or list that you can go to for vaccine info:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vaccineinfo

Is there a group legal action in progress in the UK on behalf of the children who have become autistic after having the MMR?
If anyone has info, please send me a private message via this bb system.