Re: Antimony not being helped by SAMe??

[Guest guest]

> Does this increase of antimony in the hair likely indicate that more

antimony is leaving his body, as a result of the SAMe and TMG, or does

it indicate that his body burden of antimony is increasing?

Can be either.

> He doesn't use pajamas, so he's not getting antimony there, but he

does sleep on regular sheets and a comforter.

Does he use a regular mattress?

Check other sources here

http://www.danasview.net/metals.htm

Dana

[Guest guest]

From my experience, antimony did not go down until I bought organic

mattresses (for us, too because he comes to sleep with us

sometiimes) and removed all carpet from the house (put laminate

instead). It seemed to me that my son did not excrete mercury

because ALA was working on antimony. When finally antimony went down

in the hair test, mercury went up.

You can order organic mattress from abundantearth.com , lifekind.com

and other web sites. Sometimes it requires doctor's prescription,

which should not be so hard to get from any DAN! doctor, naturopath

or even cooperating pediatrician.

Margaret

> My 8 year old son just got back the results of his third hair

test. The previous test was close to two years ago. About a year

ago, my son started taking 400 mgs of SAMe a day, in hopes of

improving his attention issues some. Also, a little over 6 months

ago, he started Kirkman's TMG + Folinic Acid + B12 capsules. He

takes about ten of those a day, in addition to the SAME. (For a

while, he took about twenty of them a day.) Therefore, it was quite

a surprise to me when I got the latest hair results back to

discover that not only has my son's antimony not gone down over the

past two years, it's gone UP!

>

> On his first hair test, dated Nov 2001, his antimony

registered .072 (reference range of <.066) and barely dipped into

the yellow. On his second hair test, dated Oct 2002, his antimony

had increased to .1. Now, on this last hair test, dated July 2004,

his antimony registered .19, and is almost touching the red line.

>

> He no longer meets the counting rules for mercury, and didn't met

them on his second hair test either (but did on his first.) In

addition to high antimony, he has high aluminum, high nickel, high

silver, and high tin. His arsenic has gone down to the green now,

although it's still close to the yellow. (It used to be his highest

metal, according to his first hair test, until we chelated with DMSA

and ALA.)

>

> Does this increase of antimony in the hair likely indicate that

more antimony is leaving his body, as a result of the SAMe and TMG,

or does it indicate that his body burden of antimony is increasing?

>

> He doesn't use pajamas, so he's not getting antimony there, but he

does sleep on regular sheets and a comforter. Are there special

kinds of pure cotton, chemical free bedding available, and if so

where? Or is it best to just use that washing soda that was

mentioned on this list? I've never seen it at the store, but will

look again.

>

>

> Thanks for any suggestions or information anyone has!

>

> Janiece

>

>

[Guest guest]

It is really hard to say.

For practical purposes labs can't break down reference ranges by each

year of age, etc., but in under 8 chidlren some toxics, antimony (Sb)

being one seems to have a minimum at about 2 and rise until age 8 or 10

on it's own. So it isn't clear what this means.

Also if mineral transport WAS deranged and isn't now you can't really

compare the tests.

I would certainly go to the trouble to get rid of all possible sources

of exposure.

Andy . . . .

> My 8 year old son just got back the results of his third hair test. The

previous test was close to two years ago. About a year ago, my son started

taking 400 mgs of SAMe a day, in hopes of improving his attention issues some.

Also, a little over 6 months ago, he started Kirkman's TMG + Folinic Acid + B12

capsules. He takes about ten of those a day, in addition to the SAME. (For a

while, he took about twenty of them a day.) Therefore, it was quite a surprise

to me when I got the latest hair results back to discover that not only has my

son's antimony not gone down over the past two years, it's gone UP!

>

> On his first hair test, dated Nov 2001, his antimony registered .072

(reference range of <.066) and barely dipped into the yellow. On his second

hair test, dated Oct 2002, his antimony had increased to .1. Now, on this last

hair test, dated July 2004, his antimony registered .19, and is almost touching

the red line.

>

> He no longer meets the counting rules for mercury, and didn't met them on his

second hair test either (but did on his first.) In addition to high antimony,

he has high aluminum, high nickel, high silver, and high tin. His arsenic has

gone down to the green now, although it's still close to the yellow. (It used to

be his highest metal, according to his first hair test, until we chelated with

DMSA and ALA.)

>

> Does this increase of antimony in the hair likely indicate that more antimony

is leaving his body, as a result of the SAMe and TMG, or does it indicate that

his body burden of antimony is increasing?

>

> He doesn't use pajamas, so he's not getting antimony there, but he does sleep

on regular sheets and a comforter. Are there special kinds of pure cotton,

chemical free bedding available, and if so where? Or is it best to just use that

washing soda that was mentioned on this list? I've never seen it at the store,

but will look again.

>

>

> Thanks for any suggestions or information anyone has!

>

> Janiece

>

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