Inflammatory bowel disease including Crohn's disease which can affect any part of the digestive tract causing mouth ulcers, stomach pains, episodes of diarrhoea and vomiting. It can also be accompanied by joint pains and swelling, and conjunctivitis of the eyes. It can take many years to develop, but with children the first symptom is often malabsorption and failure to thrive. There is an increase in childhood Crohn's disease which is a serious lifelong illness and has affected a large number of the children we are helping. It is characterised by repetitive and obsessive patterns of behaviour.
Parents also report that their children lost co-ordination or motor skills as well.
Its cause is not understood, but it has been associated with brain damage. Autism is by far and away the most common side effect notified to us and evidence shows that there has been a huge rise in cases of childhood autism throughout the country since the introduction of the MMR vaccine, although no link between the condition and the vaccine has been made by medical literature. This connection clearly needs investigating. We are not saying that all injuries suffered after the MMR or MR vaccination are automatically caused by the vaccine. But we are saying that our own investigations give cause for concern that the vaccines might not be as safe as they are claimed to be.