From: Michael E Dym <homeopathicvet@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Vaccinosis and inflammatory bowel disease

Directly from human medical research, we have definitive proof of a
linkage between polyvalent viral vaccines and inflammatory bowel
disease, in particular the combination MMR vaccine and Crohn's disease and/or
ulcerative colitis(the same thing?) in susceptible children.  In his
masterful research Andrew  Wakefield, MD, a prominent British
gastroenterologist, documented measles virus infection in the
intestinal walls of nearly %100 of the autistic children he scoped and biopsied,
who developed their disease within a short time after MMR vaccination. 
All of the normally developing children did not have any evidence of
measles virus infection or histopathologic evidence of Crohn's or ulcerative
colitis.  I believe that he did actually document that the measles
virus found in the intestinal walls of these autistic children who developed
the disease was vaccine measles virus strain, which he showed via DNA
analysis.  And while Dr. Wakefield is not anti-vaccine, he has
lectured that if the vaccines were given monovalently, that such problems had
not been seen.  Unfortunately,  Dr. Wakefield was recently asked to resign
from his position because the results of his research was unpopular.
According to his work, Dr. Wakefield theorizes that the measles virus
infection and subsequent pathology in the gut walls leads to a
leaky-gut like syndrome causing absorption of encephelopathic toxins
which directly affects the developing brains of susceptible children leading to
autistic like symptoms.

This above research is likely alarmingly occurring with the epidemic
levels of inflammatory bowel disease in our pets seen over  the past
few decades that was rare 30 years ago.  Just think how many POLYVALENTLY
vaccinated dogs with distemper(a measles virus) are suffering such
chronic infections and pathology in their intestines.  I wish that
someone would do the research in pets, but of course we all know that
this will never happen.  But I wonder how many academically-oriented
veterinary gastroenterologists would be interested in reading Dr.
Wakefield's research, and examining this issue in our dogs and cats,
who are the true victims here. At least it would open up for academic
discussion potential origins of this "new" disease of the past few
decades.

How many out there are seeing such a link clinically in their
patients.
Of course not all of these pets are scoped and biopsied, but there are
certainly mega numbers of dogs and cats whose appetites change
forever, and who develop vague chronic waxing and waning GI symptoms which
clients just live with (i.e. the maltese who vomits bile once or twice a
month, or the occasional "hairball" vomiting cat) and who vets dismiss as
variants of normal.  And what about all of those pets with vague GI
symptoms who also have mental/emotional disorders or active CNS
diseases like epilepsy.  Andrew Wakefield's work truly clicks with me in all of
these possibilities.

Of course homeopathically, we do not constitutionally prescribe based
on types of viral infections or pathology, but such work does lend
credence to the pet vaccinosis epidemic other than looking at adjuvants in the
rabies or leukemia virus vaccines as the sole contributors to
perceived rare vaccine-induced disease by our allopathic colleagues.  I hope
Andrew Wakefield's work is at some point examined with regards to relevance
in veterinary medicine.  Just tonight, I had a new client come in whose
dog had developed transient bloody/mucousy diarrhea after every vaccine,
and after its last round a few months ago, has had non-relenting colitis
signs, and bowels as thick as rope on my exam, which would like be
characterized as severe chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease
by most of our colleagues.

Michael Dym, VMD
28 Holly Cove
Marlton, New Jersey
phone 856-983-5455
email homeopathicvet@juno.com
www.canineworld.com/drdym