12 Dangerous Things Anti-Vaxxers Believe That Are Actually Child Abuse

Urine Drinking

If a crunchy mum drinks urine and calls it therapy for “wellbeing” she’s praised by other crunchy mummies. If pornstars get peed on for cash, they’re called perverts. If an anti-vaxxer baths their kid in urine and calls it treatment for autism – she’s most likely in a secret Facebook group because that’s all kinds of horsesh*t that will get Child Protective Services called on your dumba**.

Apart from treatment for autism, urine drinking has also been promoted to cure eczema, cancer, Hepatitis, herpes, lupus, kidney infections, HIV, diabetes. I wish I wasn’t f*cking so serious because people really claim this stuff and other people believe it. This page gets two dumb “treatments” because I don’t want to spend longer than I have to speaking about people wearing clothing while drinking urine. Let’s move on.

Chelation

Chelation is the process of using drugs (a chelating agent) to strip heavy metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic or iron from the blood, in the event of heavy metal poisoning. Chelation therapy is dangerous territory and should only be used in documented cases of heavy metal poisoning, using an accredited laboratory for testing and carried out under medical supervision with prescription drugs.

Anti-vaxxers being anti-vaxxers and needing to blame something, anything, for little Johnny being different to the other kids in the neighbourhood, still flog the dead horse that autism is caused by heavy metals. Despite the fact, there is no evidence to support the idea and because medical doctors largely aren’t idiots, parents wishing to inflict chelation therapy on their children either go to a quack or purchase unproven and unsafe drugs online.

Pro-tip: If the treatment you want to give your child isn’t cleared by a medical professional and you need to resort to the Internet for drugs – you should probably start listening to the little voice in the back of your head, the one that Janice is ignoring.