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Jun-03-2010 18:36TweetFollow @OregonNews ADD, ADHD and Autism Causation: Could it be Chlorinated Hydrocarbon PesticidesDr. Phillip Leveque Salem-News.comI feel that it is time for the pediatric researchers of ADD/ADHD and Autism to investigate the chlorinated hydrocarbons.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I believe the above title has driven many physicians and psychologists to end up with a similar problem. ADD is classified in The Merck Manual as a developmental disorder but Autism is classified as a psychiatric disorder. I’m not going to get caught up in the semantics of this and it may be simplistic of me to lump them together but I’m doing it anyhow, you’ll find out why later. Actually there seem to be several of inter-related syndromes so I’m not going to touch them either. Some thought it was Mercury in vaccines. You get more Mercury in one tuna fish sandwich or a tooth filling. Anyone, especially parents, will express a Hell on Earth situation and bad parenting was for many years considered the cause it isn’t! I have been confronted with these as a physician taking care of these kids. The Merck Manual indicates that powerful CNS drugs including anti-psychotics have been and are used with very little success. California medical marijuana doctors have reported almost miraculous success with marijuana cookies for all of these conditions. I was extremely interested to see on ABC Television last week a NEW medical theory of The Cause. The news was from the article AD/HD and Organic Phosphate Pesticides as the cause printed in the Journal Pediatrics June 2010 by Maryse F. Bouchard et al. Her team had taken blood samples from many AD/HD children and found the organic phosphates. This is not surprising because these pesticides are widely used on almost all vegetables to kill insect pests and they contaminate almost all foods. To me the evidence was weak as these chemicals cause strong stimulation of nerve to nerve and nerve to muscle functions and I do not believe there was evidence of that. My better “guess” is chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and herbicides and I will present my thesis. DDT was the first really effective insecticide discovered in 1939. It followed the use of carbon tetra chloride which was highly volatile and didn’t last long but it did kill bugs. Chloroform was used as an anesthetic but over use could be fatal as a brain depressant or liver failure. I believe I had one of the first human DDT poisoning cases in 1952. The next year I had several cases of 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T herbicide poisonings. I decided I’d better look up whatever references were available at that time. Every reference I found indicated that in general ALL chlorinated hydrocarbons were fat soluble and toxic mostly to nerve tissue but many such as Dioxins, the most toxic ones, were even damaging to DNA/RNA. (The U.S. Government just allocated 18 billion dollars for Vietnam Veterans poisoned by Dioxins contained in Agent Orange et cetera). It is known that chlorinated hydrocarbons seriously damage the nerves and brain and I wouldn’t be surprised if they as a class damaged the infant brain leading to these disorders. Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is/was another insecticide/pesticide used on railroad ties and power poles. I believe I had the largest collection of PCP/Dioxin poisoned cases in the world working in Oregon sawmills which send their fungicide treated lumber overseas. My diagnosis caused havoc in the Oregon State Workers Compensation Insurance Fund and severe political pressure through the Oregon Medical Board to SHUT ME UP. The sawmills did change their procedures a little. I think in view of my diagnosis and reports about the extreme danger of chlorinated hydrocarbons, attention was directed at Vinyl chlorides in all kinds of plastics, PCBs used in electrical equipment and the extreme toxicity of DDT and all other similar insecticides, Trichlorethylene (TCE) and similar solvents and has drastically reduced their use. I feel that it is time for the pediatric researchers of ADD/ADHD and Autism to investigate the chlorinated hydrocarbons. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!! *****************************************
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