Re: does ALA chelate lead? - was: recent chelation experience. - Response to Dave

[Guest guest]

Dagmar. Interesting. I, frankly, haven't a clue.

You know, I would like to make a repository of scanned hair tests.

Partly because I've got some statistical analysis that I'd like to do on

them, but it might be a good databank for anyone who might want to do

future work. I'd envision a questionnaire located on the web with some

relevant questions about the patient (child or adult) and then a scanned

hair test. Something like a Wiki where you could see your posted

results immediately, might be a good idea. Anyone on this site

computationally sophisticated enough to do it?

Dave.

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:30:22 +0100

Subject: Re: does ALA chelate lead? - was: recent chelation

experience. - Response to Dave

I wonder whether you are right there. My daughter's lead level in her

hairtest measured 15 ug/g in her pre-chelation hair. After 9 weeks of

chelation with ALA only, it was down to 9.6 ug/g. We then did some DMSA

with the ALA (15 rounds) and the lead in her hair went down to 2.7 ug/g.

As she had a bad reaction to the DMSA we then moved back to ALA alone.

Now after another 1 1/2 years her hair lead has gone down to 0.64 ug/g.

The other thing which happened during this time though is that her

mineral transport changed. In the pre-chelation hair she met the all

high counting rule. The next hair test didn't met the counting rules,

but wasn't too far off (13 in the middle, two in the red and one nearly

in the red). The third hair test again didn't meet the counting rules

and wasn't even very close. Her recent hairtest again doesn't meet the

counting rules, but looks to me suspiciously close to an all low pattern

(Manganese and Cobalt in the low red 7 more in the low yellow, one right

at the border between low yellow and green and another one very close to

it. All the others are in the white or not far off, except two:

Potassium is in the high green, close to yellow and Sulfur is in the

yellow).

In all the first three hair tests she had Antimony in the red, gradually

going down, Arsenic in the red for the first and third hairtest and

yellow in the second and Aluminium in the yellow. In her last hairtest

Aluminium and Antimony were green and Arsenic in the low yellow.

I did find where the lead came from (stripped doors previously painted

with lead paint) and have a suspicion about exposure to Arsenic sometime

between the second and third hairtest. I never found much regarding

Antimony or Aluminium.

I don't believe, that the bit of DMSA she had between the second and

third hairtest can be credited for the lead going down from off the

scale red to green, but I am still wondering whether contrary to our

believe ALA does chelate lead as well, or whether the lead level as so

many other minerals is governed by the way mercury affects the mineral

transport.

Dagmar.

It seems to me that if lead, arsenic and

antimony are high, then they are high, and that's a problem,

independently of the mineral transport issue (particularly given that

I've got lead paint and a wool rug in this apartment).