THE DETROIT -JEWISH NEWS

Dysautonenda, a Killer of Jewish Children

Friday, March 31, 1972-25

40 Pct. of Marriages in LA Are - Mixed

thousands unrecognized or mis: Diaspora and Jewish migration to
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Fonr out of ceremonies—One by a- rabbi and
(Editor's note: George Crobn Pre*. diagnosed, with many afflicted Eastern Europe where ghetto exis-
the other in church—to please
ident of the Dysautonomic Foundation. children dying from symptoms at- tence produced the inbreeding 10 marital unions in Los Angeles their respective families, the re-
Inc., a nonprofit group supporting
involving
Jews are mixed mar-
medical research into dysautonomic lo- tributed to other causes. Here are which accounts for the fact that riages, according to a report filed port states.-
cated at 370 Lexington, New York. He -the facts, about dysautonomia the disorder is confined to Ashke-
is the father of a ISpearpid dysauto- which should be- known to every nazi Jews, one out of a hundred by the West Coast correspondent
nonlife
of -whom are estimated to be 'car- of- Tel Aviv's afternoon daily,
A number' of hereditary diseases, doctor and Jewish parent.
RA
Afflicted children are often born riers. When two carriers marry, Yediot Alironot. California has a
SEMI SUS • 'CONCENTTION
such as Tay-Sachs, Niemann-Pick,
Jewish population of more than
MEMORY • IIMAXATION • MOTIVATION
and Gaur.her's, have been publi- unable to suck or swallow. They any child they have has a 25 per 600,000.
cent
chance
of
being
born
with
LEWIS
HYPNOSIS
CENTER
are
apt
to
have
breathing
diffi-
cized as "Jewish" because of their
18240 WEST NUNKNOIS ROAD
Most of these marriages are
culties and erratic temperatures. dysautonomia.
predominant occurrence in Jews.
Phone 535-%61 • Hy Lewis, Director
Nineteen seventy-two, the 21st performed by Reform rabbis.
A little-known but devastating Other frightening symptoms, all or
Often the young couples have two
disease of the nervous system has some of which occur in varying year of the existence of the Foun-
recently been recognized as exclu- degrees, are soon noted. They are: dation, marks, among Other im
• Absence • of flow of tears (often a portant developments, the estab-
sively Jewish. It is called "dysauto-
cause of corneal ulceration which lishment of a major laboratory
may lead to blindness)
nomia," meaning disturbance of
facility at New York Medical Col-
• Failure to thrive and gain weight
the autonomic (automatic) nervous
• Lack of normal ability to taste
lege, devoted exclusively to re-
system, and occurs only in children
• Indifference to pain (resulting in
unawareness of serious injuries like search into dysautonomia, and the
of parents who are Jews of Aslike-
broken bones and burns)
availability of the New York Uni-
nazi descent.
• Breath-holding spells (often to the versity Hospital. Pediatric Clinic
point of unconsciousness)
In 1950, shortly after the condi-
• Wildly fluctuating temperatures oft- as an evaluation and treatment
en over 106 degrees and as low as center for dysautonomic children.
tion was identified as the "Riley-
90 degrees without apparent cause
Day Syndrome," after the doctors
• Repeated attacks of pneumonia and
Here, Dr. Felicia Axelrod, as
who discovered it, a few parents
e
other bronchial ailmnts
director, is available for help
• Uncontrollable vomi ting (causing
banded together for mutual help
dehydration and often requiring
and consultation at all times.
and exchange of information about
hospitalization)
Continuing research Is being
• Impaired circulation evident in cold
the frightening symptoms which
hands and feet, dizzy and fainting
funded at ML Sinai and Albert
beset their dysautonomic children.
sPells
Einstein hospitals in New York,
• Faulty balance and poor coordina-
In 1951, they formed an association
University of California School
tion
to raise funds for the purpose of
• Postural disturbance (often result-
of Medicine in San Diego, Negev
ing in spinal deformity, requiring
stimulating medical research into
Central and Tel Hashomer Gov-
braces and-or operative procedures)
this rare ' disorder.
• Intolerance of lowered oxygen lev-
ernment hospitals in Israel, and
els (making general anaesthesia,. air
Now, after 21 years, studies con-
other medical centers.
The airline of the people of Israel
travel,
and
underwater
swimming
ducted in the United States, Can-
Among the immediate goals of
dangerously hazardous)
ada and Israel, as well as other
• Profuse sweating and copious drool- the Foundation are the searching
in
Passover Greetings
parts of the world, have resulted in
* Skin blotching when eating or ex- out of undiagnosed victims who
over 200 published reports which
cited
can be helped, the finding of a way
from the staff of
An
unpredietable
response
to
drugs
•
indicate the medical significance
in which to identify carriers and
• Lack of corneal sensation
El Al Israel Airlines
of the disease. Though the number
prevent dysautonomia in children
Dysautonomic
Children
are
us-
of reported cases is comparatively
yet unborn, and, of course, to find
24100 Southfield Road, Southfield
ually
undersized
and
have
a
special
small, it is believed there are
facial appearance marked by, pal- a way of reversing the disease in
Call (313) 557-5737
lor, a rather fixed stare, unusually its present victims.
Busing Issue Distorted,
high forehead, and an apprehen-
sive, somewhat frozen expression.
AJCommittee Says;
The variety and varying degrees
Amendment Fought
of these symptoms and charac-
NEW YORK—School busing is teristics made positive diagnosis
an issue that has been distorted almost impossible until research
out of all relation to reality, the studies by Dr. Alfred A. Smith and-
American Jewish Committee has Dr. Joseph Dancis revealed that
charged in a statement adopted absence of tear flow, lack of taste
buds, and abnormal reaction to a
by its board of governors.
The statement, issued here by histamine skin test were present
its president, Philip E. Hoffman, in all cases. The other invariable,
pointed out that 40 per cent of confirmed by Dr. Victor A. Mc-
the total school population in this Kusick, the eminent geneticist, and
country was normally bused to Drs. Salmon Moses and Yaakov
school for reasons having nothing Rotem in Israel, was that only
Jews of Ashkenazi descent are sub-
to do with racial balance.
In addition, in Mississippi, South ject to the syndrome.
McKusick and others believe that
Carolina and Alabama, there has
been a 2-3 per cent decrease -An the gene responsible for dysauto-
nomia
was developed as a mutant
the number of students bused since
1967-1968 in the process of desegre- in a single ancestor after the
gating previously segregated
schools.
Ex-NATO Commander
Reaffirming its "unequivocal
commitment to an integrated so- on Neo-Fascist Ticket
ROME (JTA)—Declaring that
ciety and to quality public educa-
tion for all," the American Jewish some of his best friends are
Israelis,
Admiral Gino Birindelli,
Committee declaration insisted that
"integrated public schools offering former commander of NATO forces
Jeviitt
in
southern
Europe, announced
equal educational opportunity are
a necessary component of that that he will run for parliament on
the neo-Fascist Italian. Social
society."
riucg ,
The statement continued: "We Movement (MSI) ticket.
GREETS THE ENTIRE
His running mates include avow-
are unalterable opposed to a consti-
JEWISH COMMUNITY
tutional amendment against bus- ed Fascists, some of whom are
ing or any other executive or legis- accused of the massacre of parti-
WITH BEST WISHES
sans
during
World
War
IL
latiVe technique which would un-
Asked by newsmen if he didn't
FOR A HAPPY
dermine this commitment" Fur-
PASSOVER
ther, It continued, "we must not think his candidacy on such a
ticket
would
encourage
organizers
permit the busing issue" to divert
us from the complex of economic, of anti-Semitic activities and pro-
social and political issues crying paganda, Birindelli replied that
out for solution In order to improve he could not be regarded as a
the quality—and the equality—of Fascist because the "Six-Day War
winner Itzhak Rabin considers me
life for all Americans.'
one of his best friends." Birindelli
Washington,
a
resolution
op-
In
claimed he had the friendshp "of
posing' the anti-biking amend- other Israeli personalities and of
ment was imanhnously passed by the Jewish people."
THE BLUE- WHITE SOX IS A SYMBOL
JNF VOLUNTEERS WILL CLEAR YOUR
Baal With Women at its inter-
BLUE-WHITE BOX. Please have yours
OF A STATE'S REBUILDING .. - If you
hoard
meet-
execelye
nad4Oad
ready. If your Box is not cleared by
Israel Youth Festival
do not hove one in your horn., ask for
Mg.
MAY 7th, please call the JNF office.
Calling it a most a "most ex- Set for Mid-Summer
it by calling the Jewish National Fund
Members of Youth Organizations will
NEW YORK (JTA)—The third
treme and unwise measure," the
also participate. Remember, all contri-
office.
women said thot they were "firmly international Israeli youth festival
butions to JNF ,are tax deducifide.
IRVING I. KATZ,
opposed to locking such a restric- will be held from July 10 to Aug.
21
in
Belt
Bed,
near
Tel
Aviv.
Clasirnsess
KRS.
ZLIZAKT121
SHZEDI.
tive and improper clause on school
DAVID P. ZACK.
SKENUAN SNAP=
Pres. Young Women of JNY
President
bluing into our nation's Constitu- About 500 teen-agers from 'five

By GEORGE CROHN

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Shalom

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announcing • .

blue and white
box clearance

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starting sunday, april 2

continents will participate.

tion."

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burg, BBW president, said that
the vote end discussion were not on
the merits of busing, but on the
issue of-putting this kind of subject
matter in the Constitution of the

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festival 'will seek to bring
Jewish youth closer to the Mat;
of Israel; study . and understand
Israel's problems; and acquaint
Jewish . youth with the - kibutzint,
inoshavim and Nahal border set-

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PERCY KAPLAN.

Esecutlzo Director

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