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Government researchers are pushing to have an official federal study on chelation therapy.  Chelation removes heavy metals from the body which may have been caused by vaccines.

The push for finding the positive effects of chelation is brought on by parents of autistic children who feel that the government isn’t doing enough.  This is also coming as several legislative sessions have ended with some states allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for autistic childre

Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body.

Based on the speculation that heavy metal poisoning may trigger the symptoms of autism, some parents have turned to alternative medicine practitioners who provide chelation therapy. As there are several cases that link the mercury in the vaccine preservative thiomersal causes autism or its symptoms, chelation therapy is a viable treatment for autism.

A study released Wednesday in conjunction with World Autism Day suggests that premature babies are at greater risk of being diagnosed with autism.

The study looked at 91 babies with an average gestation time of 26 weeks. Researchers in Montreal and Boston performed standard development tests on the babies between the ages of 18 and 24 months.

Of the 91 babies tested, 25 per cent had a positive result on an autism screening test. Researchers say they don’t know what proportion of these high risk children will go on to develop autism and are currently performing more confirmatory tests. Results will be released in 6-9 months.

Babies were at higher risk of scoring positive on the autism screening test if they had been more ill at birth, if they were male, or had a lower birth weight or gestational age at birth and if the mother had a prenatal infection.

“The results suggest the more premature the infant and the greater the complications at birth, the greater the likelihood they will follow up with a positive score for autism,” the study’s lead author, Catherine Limperopoulos of McGill University, told CTV’s Avis Favaro.

“Even more troubling, among preemies who had bleeding in a part of the brain known as the cerebellum, 100% - all of them - developed signs of autism.”

The study, entitled “Positive Screening for Autism in Ex-Preterm Infants: Prevalence in Risk Factors,” was published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics.

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