Hi everyone! My doctor does an ultrasound each time I go in. That is just how they do it at their practice for every patient. Anyways my sister in law told me today that I should request my doctor stop doing ultrasounds because there is new scientific evidence showing links between ultrasounds and autism. I was upset and feel like my doctors office obviously wouldn't do something to hundreds of patients if it was dangerous. Does anyone have any insight to this? Thanks.
Re: Ultrasounds & autism
This. I read an article once that said 100% of cancer patients have had hair cuts, but no one tries to claim hair cuts cause cancer. Same as this.
LFAF Summer 2016 Awards:
The real answer is no one knows what causes autism or even what it is. I wouldn't worry about it. Probably nothing you do could "cause" it.
Yup. This sounds much more believable than all these goofy vaccine and ultrasound theories.
This is like saying that leaving your house causes car crashes. Doesn't mean they are mutually exclusive.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/04/29/are-ultrasounds-causing-autism-in-unborn-babies.html
ITA with kaysa2 commenting on the 5 u/s vs 1 u/s comparisons. If it's not standard to get 5 u/s then those women are more likely to be screened for a reason. Were both groups of women having healthy pregnancies? Were they the same cohort?