Parents giving bleach enemas to cure their children of autism? Yeah, that's a thing.

[KamaAina]

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/weird-news/parents-giving-bleach-enemas-to-cure-their-children-of-autism-yeah-thats-a-thing/

Today, I learned something new. It wasn’t something I wanted to believe was real or anything I had ever wished to learn but it entered my brain and now I can’t get it out: Parents are using bleach enemas/drinks to try to cure their children of autism. They force the bleach solution into their own children orally or via enemas — both of which can cause serious health issues. Parents report their children fighting, screaming and writhing in pain. The monsters who sell the product online say it’s a miracle cure. The sane population calls it child abuse....

This screen cap was lifted from a group called CD Autism. The ‘CD’ stands for Chlorine Dioxide, which is an industrial bleach solution used for water treatment, bleaching wood pulp, and is also used in eradicating bed bugs. The CD Autism quacks push a solution called Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) which contains sodium chlorite, but when mixed with citric acid (they suggest orange juice), according to its packaging instructions, it combines to make chlorine dioxide. The sellers of MMS make snake oil claims that it can cure anything from Ebola, to AIDS, to cancer, to malaria, to broken bones, to Autism.

MMS is currently on the FDA warnings list because it is toxic and causes diarrhea, fatigue, severe vomiting, and low blood pressure due to severe dehydration.

The solution was the brainchild, or perhaps more of a brain fart, from a man named Jim Humble who is the Archbishop of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing.

Maybe I could give myself one.

I have an idea! Go ahead and vaccinate your kids, and if they get autism, just give them a bleach enema!

[RKP5637]

1. This is clearly child abuse! Bleach? Horrendous! n/t

[shenmue]

2. These people need to be in jail

[gollygee]

3. They're describing child abuse

My God.

[RKP5637]

5. And the perverted parent practically nude doing it to the child. I hope the

authorities take action on this fast!

[AngryAmish]

6. Ok, a child being nude during a procedure does not make a parent a pervert.

When my kids were in diapers I touched their genitals every day. Pervert me?

This is stupid, ascientific and horrid. But not sexual abuse.

[phil89]

9. The parents are almost nude as well as the child.

Did you read the whole thing? They should be in prison.

[AngryAmish]

14. No I did not. really, are they naked? why?

[uppityperson]

23. so they can wash off after easier

[AngryAmish]

24. ok, i have been in my underpants dealing with a sick child

Just to keep the sick off my clothes.

Again, my point stands. Not sexual perverts, just horrible and ignorent people.

[uppityperson]

28. giving unneeded and inappropriate enemas however is abusive. horrible and ignorant

indeed. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[AngryAmish]

35. There we agree, my friend.

[CreekDog]

27. What are you doing? Playing 20 questions with others to find out what the link says?

Why don't you read it if you're going to comment on what it says?

It increases the chance that you will actually be commenting on something that it actually says.

[RKP5637]

10. I don't think you read the article very well! n/t

[CreekDog]

30. they didn't read it at all!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6254986

[lunamagica]

36. Your kids were babies. Completely different situation.

This is a six year old child. It has to be horribly humiliating and traumatic for him.

Poor kid.

[Drahthaardogs]

38. They are desperate to have normal children

They do not need jail, they need therapy. What the hell is wrong with parents that they would rather have a dead child or possibly hurt their child so the child can be "normal"? This is sick.

[Katashi_itto]

39. You got issues.

[RKP5637]

43. What, is this supposed to mean? I have issues because I find it rather bizarre

for a parent to be practically nude shoving a bleach solution up their child's butt?

[hobbit709]

4. WTF!?!?!?

Anybody doing or recommending that should have to undergo one and then be locked up.

[tammywammy]

7. This is clearly child abuse. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. I can't imagine why the victim...err...patient would kick and scream.

Maybe he's trying to communicate his gratitude for the loving treatment.

[Kalidurga]

11. People need to stop acting like autism is a disease

It might be a condition where learning to live is difficult. It might be a condition where if you have a child with it that it's hard to parent that child. But, it is not a disease. People with autism can live fairly what some call normal lives and they can be as physically healthy as anyone else. Just cuz someone is a bit different doesn't mean they are diseased. Gah!

[KamaAina]

13. Mahalo (thank you)!

[hifiguy]

18. Speaking as one dx'd on the spectrum

(Asperger's) I strongly second your fine post.

The best analogy I've heard is that those of us on the spectrum are like Macs in a world dominated by PCs. We can do the same things, but the internal operating systems are not compatible.

[Jackpine Radical]

31. …Proof that Aspergers Syndrome is not due to viral infection.

Everyone knows Macs don't get viruses.

[hifiguy]

32. Very good. Well played, JR.

[MadrasT]

21. + 1

[alphafemale]

45. As well as describing kids as ADHD and drugging them.

Any kid that doesn't easily meld into a cookie cutter mold is not deficient.

Such bullshit.

[WolverineDG]

12. I reported the group to FB

not that it's going to do any damn good. But this is child abuse.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

15. That's sick. Need to call social services.

[area51]

37. +1 n/t

[COLGATE4]

16. Un-frigging-believable. nt

[hifiguy]

17. Sounds like some people should be getting visits

from child welfare services and a stretch in the Big House.

indeed.

ETA - Of course some dingbat "church" is behind this. What a surprise.

[vankuria]

19. OMG

Can't believe what people will put their poor children through, even risk their lives just to rid them of what they believe is such a curse. As an advocate for the disabled I'm appalled and truly saddened by this, shame on them. I can only hope Child Protective Services pays them a visit.

[MadrasT]

20. This is horrifying.

Also, autism does not need to be fucking "cured".

[Sissyk]

22. There is no way on earth that is not child abuse.

Someone please rescue that child if this is true.

[alphafemale]

25. So they just admitted to regularly anally raping a child

I can't even comprehend how horrid having bleach shoved into your guts must be.

Jail these freaks.

[Iggo]

47. Frightening how many fanatics think the answers are inside children's butts.

[Jefferson23]

26. Jaw dropping and how can we have them reported. That is illegal, and I am afraid to ask,

when do they stop torturing their children?

for the innocent and their crime of autism.

[Initech]

29. ...

[CountAllVotes]

33. Shut down Facebook!!

That should solve this problem for the time being.

As for the people doing this, send them all to prison!

[3catwoman3]

34. Who the bloody effing hell...

...dreams up idiocy like this? This is horrifying.

[erstickendarauf]

40. Whenever I read stories like this I am always reminded of

a scene/quote from the movie parenthood....

'You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, or drive a car. Hell, you need a license to catch a fish! But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.'

[LeftishBrit]

41. Horrific.

Cruel and dangerous.

[ileus]

42. Does anyone actually believe this crock?

[HappyMe]

44. This is horrifying.

Child abuse, plain and simple.

[SidDithers]

46. Crazy, isn't it...

A previous thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023051319

It's amazing that's it's still going on.

Some people just shouldn't be parents.

Sid