Re: IOM report rejects use of chelation therapy

[Guest guest]

Has there ever been a double blind placebo controlled study on

chelation with ASD children? I know that it hasn't felt ethical to

withold treatment from kids who can benefit from it, but I'm thinking

that now might be a good time to show that it does help ASD kids.

I'm a bit scared at reading this, and am hoping that it doesn't

jeopardize chelation as an option.

W

> From the IOM report published today on chelation

>

> Please distribute this to all DAN doctors. This requires a response

> from all clinicians because it calls into question the entire DAN

> protocol for mercury poisoning. In fact, it may make our doctors

liable for undertaking chelation therapy outside " carefully-

controlled

> research settings. "

>

[Guest guest]

Apparently DMSA was okayed in the 1950s for lead toxicity. As I am sure most

of the kids have high lead levels, you can get sneaky and emphasize the lead

component and THAT'S why you have to chelate.

Alternatively you should be putting terrific pressure on the government to

test this chelation.

Geez you guys are living in a modern day communist Russia!!!

in Germany

[ ] Re: IOM report rejects use of chelation therapy

> Has there ever been a double blind placebo controlled study on

> chelation with ASD children? I know that it hasn't felt ethical to

> withold treatment from kids who can benefit from it, but I'm thinking

> that now might be a good time to show that it does help ASD kids.

> I'm a bit scared at reading this, and am hoping that it doesn't

> jeopardize chelation as an option.

>

> W

>

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[Guest guest]

So the idiots are afraid the kids will do better and

they will have egg on their faces,and we will have

proof. My kid was NON RESPONSIVE PRIOR TO CHELATION.

He now DOESNT FIT DSMV FOR AUT> OR PDD> HE did BEFORE

CHELATION.ALA takes care of brain. Perhaps if these

jerks got chelated they could pull their heads out of

thier rectomsIf they believe SO STRONGLY in what they

are saying than I challange them to sell all their

stock in the drug co. and give it to the independant

reserchers.

--- " J. Krakow " <rkrakow@...> wrote:

> From the IOM report published today on chelation

>

> Please distribute this to all DAN doctors. This

> requires a response

> from all clinicians because it calls into question

> the entire DAN

> protocol for mercury poisoning. In fact, it may make

> our doctors liable

> for undertaking chelation therapy outside

> " carefully-controlled

> research settings. "

>

> IOM rejected use of chelation therapy as follows in

> its Public Health

> Response Recommendations (p.73):

>

> Clinical Studies

> Because chelation therapy has potentially serious

> risks, the committee

> recommends that it be used only in

> carefully-controlled research settings with

> appropriate oversight by

> Institutional Review Boards protecting

> the interests of the children who participate.

>

> See also page 69:

>

> Clinical Studies

> • The committee heard from some parents of children

> with ASD who have

> chosen to rely

> on chelation therapy as a treatment. Some reported

> that unaffected

> siblings of children

> with ASD have been chelated as well. The committee

> saw no scientific

> evidence, however,

> that chelation is an effective therapy for ASD or is

> even indicated in

> these circumstances.

> Chelation therapy is currently indicated only for

> high-dose, acute

> mercury poisonings.

> Even in these cases, however, chelation therapy has

> not been

> established to

> improve renal or nervous system symptoms of chronic

> mercury toxicity

> (Sandborgh

> Englund et al., 1994) and has had no effect on

> cognitive function when

> used for excretion

> of another heavy metal—lead (Rogan et al., 2001).

> Because it is

> unlikely to remove mercury

> from the brain, chelation is useful only immediately

> after exposure and

> before damage

> has occurred (, 1998). Moreover, chelation

> therapy has serious

> risks; for example,

> some chelation therapies might cause the release of

> mercury from

> soft-tissue stores,

> thus leading to increased exposure of the nervous

> system to mercury

> (Wentz, 2000). Because

> chelation therapy has potentially serious risks, the

> committee

> recommends

> that it be used only in carefully controlled

> research settings with

> appropriate oversight

> by Institutional Review Boards protecting the

> interests of the children

> who

> participate.

>

>

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

This is a most significant and enlightening portion of the IOM

report. Pharma, via these IOM findings, is advocating the

restriction of chelation therapy to CAREFULLY CONTROLLED " Review

Boards " in an attempt to maintain and manipulate the chelation data

and results. This sounds familiar, no? Chelation, therefore, must be

Pharma's worst nightmare because a recovered-via-chelation " autistic "

child refutes all their propaganda and provides an undeniable means

of illuminating the true source of many cases of autism. It is

obviously something they fear or they would not have risked laying

their cards on the table by bringing it up at this juncture. It means

they know chelation is effective and that they don't want Average Joe

and Jane Citizen to have the ability to chelate their children and

rescue them from their mercury-induced fog.

Yes, we should contact our Congressmen and Senators on this issue and

remain diligent in educating our communities about the effects of

thimerosal. However, we must recognize that the long arm of pharma

has already bought and paid for many of our legislators' votes. We

know those very legislators appropriated funding this year to make

federal grants available to reseachers for " Evaluation of Parents

Claiming Exemptions to School Entry Immunization Requirements " .

Therefore, it would be prudent - given this rare glimpse into

Pharma's next plan of action - to stock up on ALA, supplements,

etc., in the event that their trillions of dollars buys them the

ability to have chelation agents taken off the market " protecting the

interests of the children " don't ya know.

We should not be fearful about this or feel hopeless or beaten. We

should be happy! If any of us harbored any doubt as to the

effectiveness of chelation therapy, the IOM has made it clear through

today's report that we have identified both the problem and the

solution! We just need to keep up the good fight and mark those ole

rounds off the calendar, week by week, month by month, year by year -

till our children are set free. Imagine that, Andy's been right all

along... :-)

>

> IOM rejected use of chelation therapy as follows in its Public

Health

> Response Recommendations (p.73):

>

> Clinical Studies

> Because chelation therapy has potentially serious risks, the

committee

> recommends that it be used only in

> carefully-controlled research settings with appropriate oversight

by

> Institutional Review Boards protecting

> the interests of the children who participate.

>

[Guest guest]

Pharma doesnt want your kids getting better, and they probally wont

use chelation, Because they know your child will get better and will

loose money, So they will put your kids on some " new " drug that they

say kids cant live without!

> This is a most significant and enlightening portion of the IOM

> report. Pharma, via these IOM findings, is advocating the

> restriction of chelation therapy to CAREFULLY CONTROLLED " Review

> Boards " in an attempt to maintain and manipulate the chelation

data

> and results. This sounds familiar, no? Chelation, therefore, must

be

> Pharma's worst nightmare because a recovered-via-

chelation " autistic "

> child refutes all their propaganda and provides an undeniable

means

> of illuminating the true source of many cases of autism. It is

> obviously something they fear or they would not have risked laying

> their cards on the table by bringing it up at this juncture. It

means

> they know chelation is effective and that they don't want Average

Joe

> and Jane Citizen to have the ability to chelate their children and

> rescue them from their mercury-induced fog.

>

> Yes, we should contact our Congressmen and Senators on this issue

and

> remain diligent in educating our communities about the effects of

> thimerosal. However, we must recognize that the long arm of

pharma

> has already bought and paid for many of our legislators' votes.

We

> know those very legislators appropriated funding this year to make

> federal grants available to reseachers for " Evaluation of Parents

> Claiming Exemptions to School Entry Immunization Requirements " .

> Therefore, it would be prudent - given this rare glimpse into

> Pharma's next plan of action - to stock up on ALA, supplements,

> etc., in the event that their trillions of dollars buys them the

> ability to have chelation agents taken off the market " protecting

the

> interests of the children " don't ya know.

>

> We should not be fearful about this or feel hopeless or beaten.

We

> should be happy! If any of us harbored any doubt as to the

> effectiveness of chelation therapy, the IOM has made it clear

through

> today's report that we have identified both the problem and the

> solution! We just need to keep up the good fight and mark those

ole

> rounds off the calendar, week by week, month by month, year by

year -

> till our children are set free. Imagine that, Andy's been right

all

> along... :-)

>

>

>

>

>

> >

> > IOM rejected use of chelation therapy as follows in its Public

> Health

> > Response Recommendations (p.73):

> >

> > Clinical Studies

> > Because chelation therapy has potentially serious risks, the

> committee

> > recommends that it be used only in

> > carefully-controlled research settings with appropriate

oversight

> by

> > Institutional Review Boards protecting

> > the interests of the children who participate.

> >