15 month old's hair test results from DDI

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Hi Andy and Others:

My son is now 16 months old. I sent his hair to DDI last month.

His only other sibling has AUTISM and is 5 years old. My son is also

showing autistic tendencies (no clear diagnosis).

His history:

Relux, choking and hospitalization at 2 weeks

Chronic yeast issues and gut bugs in the first year

Stiffness in the back and legs

Unexplainable earaches (without fluid and infection)

Colic, irritable, agitated, very emotional, clingy, very light and

disturbed sleep, sensory issues, etc, etc.

Kept getting worse for first 8 months until we used conventional

drugs. Finally switched to a DAN doc, killed gut bugs and brought

physical symptoms under control. Used a homeopath to bring emotional

symptoms under control. Still depended a lot on his meds and

nystatin. Finally treated him with NAET and got him off his meds, but

may not be long term.

His Hair test results:

The number of items above 50th percentile - 13

Number of items " very elevated " and " very low " - 3

Number of items entirely in the middle band - 13

Questions:

(1) Not mercury toxic according to counting rules.

He is NOT IMMUNIZED. Mom has 5 amalgams. Mom never ate fish after the

age of 7. Never wore contact lenses, etc.

I do not know of a source of mercury for him, except that I am STILL

NURSING him.

Should my son be excreting more mercury?

(2) Is it better to quit nursing? He barely eats and thrives only on

breastmilk.

(3) I read an article that said 'babies are much more toxic because

their systems arent's able to clean out toxins as well as in adults'.

Can this be a reason why my son is so toxic?

(4) Can we chelate a baby this young? For now I just did NAET for

heavy metals. Not sure what that means.

(5) Any other options other than chelation?

(6) Will be going to Pfeiffer in November. Will start supplements

from Brain Child nutritionals next week. Right now my son is getting

zinc. Do I need to do anything else to prepare him for the chelation?

Thanks in advance,

-Indu.

DDI results:

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POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS

element result ref range color

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aluminum 9.4 <8.0 yellow

antimony 0.17 <0.066 yellow (almost into red)

arsenic 0.15 <0.08 yellow

beryllium <0.01 <0.02 no line

bismuth 0.055 <0.13 green

cadmium 0.13 <0.15 green

lead 1.7 <1.0 yellow

mercury 0.16 <0.4 green

platinum <0.003 <0.005 no line

thallium <0.001 <0.01 no line

thorium <0.001 <0.005 no line

uranium 0.015 <0.06 green

nickel 0.07 <0.4 green

silver 0.24 <0.2 yellow

tin 1.7 <0.3 RED

titanium 0.81 <1.0 green

ESSENTIAL AND OTHER ELEMENTS

element result ref range color under/over 50%

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Calcium 273 125-370 green over 50%

Magnesium 15 12-30 green under 50%

Sodium 230 12-90 yellow over 50%

Potassium 270 12-40 RED over 50%

Copper 11 8.0-16 white

Zinc 47 100-190 RED under 50%

Manganese 0.39 0.2-0.55 green over 50%

Chromium 0.3 0.26-0.5 green under 50%

Vanadium 0.024 0.03-0.1 yellow under 50%

Molybdenum 0.089 0.05-0.13 green over 50%

Boron 11 0.6-4.0 RED over 50%

Iodine 1.7 0.25-1.3 yellow over 50%

Lithium 0.014 0.007-0.023 green over 50%

Phosphorus 214 160-250 green over 50%

Selenium 2.5 0.95-1.7 yellow over 50%

Strontium 0.23 0.16-1.0 green under 50%

Sulfur 47900 45500-53000 white

Barium 0.71 0.16-0.8 green over 50%

Cobalt 0.011 0.013-0.035 yellow under 50%

Iron 10 8.0-19 green under 50%

Germanium 0.045 0.045-0.065 green under 50%

Rubidium 0.3 0.016-0.18 yellow over 50%

Zirconium 1.3 0.04-1.0 yellow over 50%