Re: How to test for metal poisioning?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Is there still a need to get tested for mercury poisioning even if you

do not have any amalgam fillings?

Sandi only has a couple of the white composite fillings.

Cheers,

Pinda

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> Hi Pinda. I posted a link to this organization, but not to this

page about testing.....

[Guest guest]

I totally disagree with DMSA and DMPS challenge tests.. I recently read a

very recent study on mercury and autism and they used the poryphrin test. I

totally recommend that one only. My son got the DMSA challenge test and

worsened his symptoms for many months. I would never do it again and looking

back

I see it was a waste of time and money. We are all full of toxins, we don't

need a test to tell us. If you don't have mercury, you have something else.

Chelators take out many toxins, not just one, so its not necessary to know

which you have. Also, I read many people who tested negative on the DMSA

challenge tests, chelated anyway, and got much better. Thus, just know that

these tests are just not that great.

Heidi N

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[Guest guest]

As noted by the web artilce, the urine fractionated porphyrin test is done by

labs in the U.S. like Lab Corp and Great Plains; however the FDA does not allow

U.S. labs to provide information and explanations that deal with issues like

mercury or metals toxicity. For political reasons they don't admit that mercury

can cause health problems, if they did they would have a big liability because

they have allowed mercury to be used in dental fillings from which people get

high mercury exposures.  Scientists and patient support organizations like DAMS

have been pushing them to ban or restrict use of mercury in dentistry for years,

but FDA has resisted claiming they are not aware of mercury causing harm.  Even

though there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies documenting it, millions of

medical tests and clinical cases, documentation by government organizations

like U.S. EPA and ASTDR and from Sweden, Germany, Japan, WHO, etc.

www.flcv.com/damspr1.html

If you get the fractionated porphyrin test done by a lab like Lab Corps, you can

ask about the results on a forum like this or to someone like me or Leo at

DAMS.  We have a lot of experience with all of the tests for mercury.  I will

likely be going to work  in a year or so for a medical clinic overseeing tests,

not just for mercury.  I've begun getting training for the certification that I

need.   The porphyrin test is not about mercury level or toxics level, but of

metabolic damage that has been done by toxics.  The level of waste porphyrins

indicates degree of metabolic damage, and the pattern of which porphyrins are in

the urine indicate the likely cause of the damage.  The article notes that

precoproporphyrin is the one (still in the test) that most consistently indictes

mercury.   FDA had the best indicator of mercury taken from the test,  but it

still is a relatively good test.  Before it was required to change it, it was

better.

Bernie

Bernie