chelation and seizures

[Guest guest]

hi

I have a four year old son with autism and seizures. We have

chelated with DMSA alone (suppository form, prescribed by Dr. Holmes)

and stopped afer a few months. I may have to use DMSA in some form

that my son can have disguised and I wonder if anyone elses child has

seizures and uses DMSA. Also has anyone had luck with just ALA? You

can also email me privately. mainecollier@...

L. Collier, auburn ME

[Guest guest]

Donna,

We're chelating a 19 yr old with seizures and have seen no increase

in seizure activity that I can relate specifically to chelation. Her

seizures have been well controlled by diet. Summer 2000 we began

GFCGSF and amazingly found after an initial learning curve that her

seizures are almost totally related to diet. The beginning of this

diet was quite unsettling as she had a few days of many, many

seizures, tapering as the days went and gone by day 5. Now they

occur like clockwork 8-12 hours after ingesting an offending item.

Both gluten and casein anything still trigger seizures and other

things(peanut, chocolate, high phenol) put her into what I term 'pre-

seizure' mode. None of these items registered on allergy

evaluations. We did traditional and non. During this time

(chelation) we've actually been able to dramatically reduce her

seizure med. Tegretol SR has been reduced to 50mg hs('a homeopathic

dose' is how the doc who helps us with tests terms it) from a high

of 600-700 per day. I learned that this med as manufactured has a

milk coating so I have it compounded. From our experience, I would

encourage those with seizure prone children to look closely at a

diet connection.

From: Donna [mailto:dma_nc1@h...]

Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:42 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: Help!! Seizures and Chelation

Hi Robin,

How do chelate with seizures? Do you have to do anything

diffrent? Do you increase the childs seizure meds? Did your child

have any problems with seizures while chelating?

Donna