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Carthy helped organize a movement of parents concerned about a vaccine- autism link. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Jan. It was originally published on April 2. Jenny, in your book Louder than Words, you describe Evan’s first and subsequent seizures.
Jenny McCarthy is an actress, celebrity, author and activist. Her 7-year-old son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism when he was 2 1/2, following a series of vaccinations. The author of three books on autism, McCarthy helped organize a movement of parents concerned about a vaccine-autism link.
Summarize that episode, when he began having seizures. One of the first signs when I knew something was wrong was one morning he slept in late. So I opened the door and just saw Evan struggling to breathe, and pasty white, blue lips, and shaking. I picked him up and just started screaming at the top of my lungs, ran down the hallway, called 9. We went to the hospital. They blew it off as a febrile seizure — seizures that you can get if you have a fever.
And considering Evan did not have a fever, I was a little concerned. Three weeks later we went down to Palm Springs to visit Grandma, and when I pulled Evan out of the car, he had this stoned look on his face. And shortly thereafter, his eyes rolled back, and I laid him down, and he was hardly taking in air, just turning blue. I called the paramedics. By the time they got there, he had gone into cardiac arrest. Halfway to the hospital, they gave me the thumbs up that they got him back.
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When we got to the hospital he seized again, and he seized on and off for the next seven hours. We stayed in the hospital for a few days, where they diagnosed him with epilepsy. And I left the hospital going, “Where did this come from?” They kept asking me: “Do you have a history of epilepsy? Does anybody have a history of epilepsy in the family?” No. And I left the hospital with just a diagnosis of epilepsy.
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And then I knew — that mommy instinct — there was something more to the story. So I kept looking for a neurologist to give me the answer I was looking for. Describe his behavior before he started having seizures.
Looking at milestones, he hit pretty much every milestone. It wasn’t until after the MMR . In playgroup, he was more by himself. Kids would steal toys from him, and he didn’t even know they stole the toy. And I would think I just had the most polite little boy in the world who didn’t mind people that stole toys from him. Really, those were the first kind of behaviors that I look back now noticing. Then he started to develop blue circles under his eyes, bloated belly, gas, constipation, eczema, yeast.
And these are all — now I know — comorbid conditions that go with autism. But at the time I just didn’t know why Evan was becoming so sick all of a sudden. I was feeding him healthy foods. And that’s when the first seizure happened. How long after the MMR was that first seizure? You know, a lot of people think, and probably from me saying in some interviews, that it was after the MMR I noticed changes. I don’t think it was just the MMR shot that caused any kind of trigger with autism.
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I think it was a compilation of so many shots to a kid that obviously had some autoimmune disorders. So I would say maybe a couple of months, a month or so after the MMR, I started to notice some physical ailments such as constipation, rashes, eczema. That was like the first little sign. And then the train just kind of descended from there. How was the diagnosis of autism determined? Was it by more than one doctor?
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I found the best neurologist in the world and pulled some strings to try to get in there. I was praying he would just say, “Yes, it’s epilepsy.” But after his eval, he canceled all the rest of his clients the rest of the day.
And I just thought I was getting VIP treatment, but he sat me down and said, “I’m sorry, but Evan has autism.”And in that moment I died, but I also knew he was right. That was that mommy scary instinct going, “Yes, this is part of my journey, and this man is telling me the truth, and I need to do something,” which was pretty much cry in a ball, because he had no direction for me. It was just: “I’m sorry, he has autism, and there’s not a lot you can do. There’s some therapies, behavior therapies, but I’m sorry.”So I left that office devastated, hopeless, cried in my bed, and maybe it was even that night went on Google and typed in “autism.” And on the corner of the screen, in the sponsored links, it said, “Generation Rescue.” And I decided to click on it, because right underneath it, it said, “Autism is reversible.” And I thought to myself, well, this must be a load of crap, because if it was true, why didn’t the best neurologist in the world tell me there’s something I could do to reverse autism? So I clicked on Generation Rescue, and I found not just a guy who made the Web site, but this whole community of thousands of parents that were actually healing their child, recovering them from autism. So I read everything on that Web site and took a leap of faith and said: “I’m going to follow the path of hope, because the medical community is offering none. I think I’m going to go this way.”And I decided to try the first thing that they recommended in our community, which is the gluten- free, casein- free .
I thought to myself, you know what? It’s just wheat, and it’s just dairy. I’d called my pediatrician at the time, and he said: “It’s a load of garbage. It hasn’t been studied. Why would you do that?
It could have nutritional deficiency issues.” And I still said to myself: “Well, that sounds like no hope. I think I’ll try this way.”And I removed wheat and dairy, and within two weeks, Evan had better eye contact, and he doubled his language. He was saying about two words per sentence, like “Juice, Mama,” and he went to “I want juice, Mama,” which is huge in our community.
It’s like we count the words they say in a sentence. So within two weeks I saw a jump. And I went, “Oh, this is the path I’m supposed to be on.”So I followed the next step from the parents, which is vitamins. To me, again, harmless, in a parent’s point of view. Gave him cod liver oil. His stimming got better; stimming is like flapping hands or looking at objects out of the corner of his eyes.
He started sleeping really well. His temper tantrums went down through the course of doing vitamins, and that’s when I said, “OK, now I’m really onto something.”And I looked into the community of DAN!
Jerry Kartzinel, who started treating these conditions. And I noticed that when I treated the eczema and the fungus in his gut, words just started coming out of his mouth. I mean, he started getting jokes. It was almost like someone turned the light switch back on, because I saw this kid in the first year of his life, and then the lights went out. And it was in this moment now the lights came back on, and I saw this beautiful soul that was just struggling for so long.
I remember calling my mom — it was during one of the times when Evan was watching Sponge. Bob — just bawling my eyes out, going: “Mom, he laughed at a joke! He’s coming back!” And I remember thinking to myself and praying to God, saying, “If you just continue to teach me how to heal my son, I promise I will show the world how to do it.”And the state . The recovery was fast for Evan, although I pushed really hard. And not only for me — I followed the path of all these other moms. People say: “Well, for you to just go out and preach this story about Evan, don’t you think that’s kind of bad?
It’s just your son.” Well, it wouldn’t be everywhere! It wouldn’t be on the nightly news! What is the “University of Google”? I get criticized a lot from “the other side,” — I hate having to say that — but the neuroscience world .
To me, Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we’re all dying because we look up something on Google. But there’s also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child. And I’m so grateful, because like I said, if I didn’t click on Generation Rescue’s Web site, I never would have found how to help heal Evan. A lot of people didn’t understand there was a gut and brain connection, and I would tell them: “Let’s go try that theory out in a bar.
Go have a drink, and see how it affects your brain.”To us, it’s the exact same thing. We saw a gut connection. Our babies all have these Buddha bellies.
If you talk to parents who have children with autism, they have little Buddha bellies. Their guts are inflamed. When that happens, we see a difference in their behavior. I don’t know where that connection is, but there’s enough evidence for us to go, “There is a connection.”When did you first think there might be a connection between vaccines and autism? The first time I heard about the vaccine and autism connection was a month before Evan received his MMR shot.
And I walked into my pediatrician’s office during the MMR time and said: “I don’t want Evan to have this shot. It was in Time magazine. Parents are really concerned that this is the autism shot.”And he got very angry at me — very, very angry — and swore at me and said: “It’s just parents’ desperate attempt to blame something. Has nothing to do with it.” My instinct was screaming, “No,” yet my husband, who was with me, wanted it. So he signed the paperwork to get the MMR. I couldn’t even do it. And that’s when the train kind of started to regress with Evan.
You write that . Do you have autoimmune issues? Do you have bipolar disorder?” There’s this whole methylation tree I talk about, which is the depression, bipolar. Then there’s this autoimmune tree of Crohn’s disease, celiac disease. If you have these traits, I think the pediatrician should then look at that as a little bit of a red flag to say: “This child might be genetically vulnerable to having an autoimmune disorder, might not be able to detox the 3. How does that sound?” To me, that would be a huge breakthrough — taking some family history.
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