24 Hour Urine Test Start of Chelation/No metals detected - Question for Andy

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Hi Andy

We recently started chelating our 3 year old son with DMSA given orally. He

weighs about 38 pounds and we have been giving him 17mg of DMSA every four hours

- three days on/four days off. We have completed three rounds of chelation and

have seen marked improvements in eye contact, socialisation and interaction. We

did a 24 hour urine test to check for output of metals on round two (messed up

getting the sample on round one as our boy is not toilet trained). Have just

got results back showing that there is no indication of him excreting metals in

his urine. His hair test showed high levels of lead, tin, aluminium, antimony

and applying the counting rules we think he has a mercury problem too. We are

concerned about the lack of excretion of metals and cannot understand it given

the improvements in our child. Would really appreciate your comments on this.

Any possible explanation? Are we not giving enough DMSA? Is it possible the

urine test is not sensitive enough to pick up metals? (the urine test was

analysed at a local lab here in Australia - not at Great Smokies). Should we

repeat the test?

Thank you inadvance for your advice. We appreciate it.

Alison