Advice in Portland, Oregon area

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I'll just ask this point-blank. There are two local DAN! docs (one is

an MD and one is an ND) in the Portland, OR area both of whom get high

praise from everyone I've spoken with. I've also spoken with both and

they are knowledgeable and generous with their time when I have

questions about chelation. If you are in the Portland, OR area, I'm

sure you know who I'm talking about, so I won't specifically mention names.

I would like to get advise from anyone who has taken their kids to

either of these docs for chelation and how their experience went. For

that matter, any advice on anything folks in the Portland, OR area have

done with regards to chelation would be greatly appreciated.

We went to an initial visit with the MD and he is recommending a

challenge test with DMPS/Glutiathone IV because the overall dose is much

lower than for the oral test (oral test would be 250mg which I know Andy

Cutler has said is risky.) He also ordered hair, stool, and urine

(metabolix) tests to determine the health of the GI tract. The method

of chelation (could be DMPS, DMSA, ALA, verious doses, etc...) will be

decided after these tests are done. For what it's worth, he has

chelated many adults and older children over the years and those

patients generally reported less problems when treated with DMPS than

with DMSA.

The ND would perform the same tests, but would do the DMSA challenge

first (I think she said 40mg oral). I think she would probably stick to

the DAN! protocol of DMSA/ALA.

Whoever we go with, we will probably insist on the

low-dose/high-frequency technique Andy recommends simply because it

sounds like it has all advantages except for the inconveniece of

frequent doses (pretty minor in my book).

Thanks,

Bart