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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/possible-link-found-to-autistism-and-pet-flea-shampoos/">Autistism Linked to Pet Flea Shampoos?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM by Kathleen Blanchard</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Pet shampoos containing pyrethrin may contribute to autism, according to a presentation by Irva Hertz-Picciotto, PhD, from the University of California, Davis, at the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research.&nbsp; Backing the findings was data collected from the Childhood Autism Risks and the Environment (CHARGE) study that evaluated 531 children, age 2 -5 who lived in California – 333 had a confirmed diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder; the remaining children had normal development.&nbsp; The authors found that the interviewed mothers of autistic children were twice as likely to report the use of products containing pyrethrin around the time of pregnancy - three months prior and up to one year after conception and delivery.&nbsp; No one cause for autism has ever been identified. Dr. Hertz-Picciotto says “generally speaking, probably most cases of autism arise from multiple genetic as well as multiple…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/possible-link-found-to-autistism-and-pet-flea-shampoos/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/possible-link-found-to-autistism-and-pet-flea-shampoos/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/possible-link-found-to-autistism-and-pet-flea-shampoos/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/possible-link-found-to-autistism-and-pet-flea-shampoos/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>