Td-DMSA progress

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Hi Mandi - good to have you back, hope your holiday was excellent.

We are just completing the 2nd round of chelating Tom using Td-DMSA.

Couple of things we learnt - always apply in one well ventilated

room - stops whole house smelling! Apply, let dry, put trousers back

wait 45 mins, then change trousers and wash site - stops son

smelling! This stuff stinks - I keep in sealed bag, in tupperware in

DH's beer fridge and you can still smell it when open fridge. Hope

doesn't affect DH's beer ;-)

1st w/e we went low dose (1/3 of Dr H's dose across whole w/e) and

every 4 hrs. Tom showed no ill effects. Was incredibly calm all

week, much longer sentences, ABA tutors asked what I'd done to him

as was doing so well on prog.

This w/e thought we would try less frquent dosing so kept same low

dose but gave 8 hourly. By end of 1st day Tom was in stim-land! We

switched back to every 4 hours but Tom verbally and visually v

stimmy and unbelievably non-compliant.

Also, been using AFP-peptizide and No Fenol to help control yeast -

working beautifully, no more yeasty tummy or behaviours - except the

current tonne of non-compliance!

Is this the sort of thing you can see from chelation? Some good

rounds, some bad??? Or is this the product of bad timing of doses?

Thanks

Gail