Transdermal DMSA

[Guest guest]

Working through the presentations from the Autism One conference (now

available on autism one radio www.autismone.org) I heard DAN doctor

Phil DeMeillo talk about TD-DMSA.

Some points of interest to me were:

(1) He is seeing good things with TD-DMSA in his practice

(2) I heard him say that TD-DMSA is designed to be slow release.

Because of this he doesn't think there is as much need for keeping to

a strict 4 hourly protocol as there is with oral DMSA.

(3) He said the TD version is putting less stress on the liver than

the oral version. His explaination was that oral DMSA goes straight

to the liver before distribution throughout the body whereas only

some of the TD-DMSA will go directly there.

(4) He emphasised how horrible DMSA tastes and how difficult it is to

hide this taste

(5) His take on yeast was that TD-DMSA gives rise to significantly

less yeast problems than oral, though still can be caused.

(6) He is a big fan of Lee-Silsby's TD-DMSA. (The inventor Alan was

in the room). Dr DeMeillo was not sure about putting DMSO with DMSA

in a TD version, something to do with his chemistry notes, and DMSO

counteracting the action of DMSA. (BTW Coastal put DMSO in their TD-

DMSA product)

Anyone have any comments on any of the above?

Sharon