Re: Mecury testing

[Guest guest]

> My son was recently diagnosed with autism. He is verbal, but he is

> three and 1/2 and has the vocabulary of 20 month old. I am going to

> get him tested for mercury by hair testing. If this doesn't show

> any, can I take that as an absoulute positive or is there further

> testing that I can persue?

If you do the DDI test as recommended on this forum, it will give you

good info, altho many times the mercury tests LOW but there is

actually mercury in his body " hiding " . This page has info on that,

including how to calculate if he might have " hiding " mercury

http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/HOW_TO_hair_test.html

Dana

[Guest guest]

The hair test is a good non-invasive test to start with. The preferred test is

the Doctor's Data Inc. " Hair Elements " test and not the " toxic elements " one.

Andy has developed counting rules for the " Hair Elements " that you can use to

help determine where things are. (

http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/HOW_TO_hair_test.html#counting_rules )

I found a lot of information at the following URL:

http://www.autism.com/ari/ - At the bottom of the page you should find the

heading for " Impaired Metal Excretion " -- Amy S. Holmes, M.D. Click that for a

video presentation that Dr. Holmes presented in 2002.

And also:

http://www.nomercury.org/media/haley/haley_files/default.htm - Video and slide

of " Mercury - What is its role in Autism and Alzheimer's Disease? " by: Dr. Boyd

Haley.

Both of these links take a minute or two to load up.

[ ] Mecury testing

My son was recently diagnosed with autism. He is verbal, but he is

three and 1/2 and has the vocabulary of 20 month old. I am going to

get him tested for mercury by hair testing. If this doesn't show

any, can I take that as an absoulute positive or is there further

testing that I can persue?

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[Guest guest]

> My son was recently diagnosed with autism. He is verbal, but he is

> three and 1/2 and has the vocabulary of 20 month old. I am going

to

> get him tested for mercury by hair testing. If this doesn't show

> any, can I take that as an absoulute positive or is there further

> testing that I can persue?

As others have commented, the counting rules (for impaired

mineral transport) can be used to look for the RESULTS

of mercury poisoning, since mercury often doesn't show up

on hair tests.

However, if this results in the finding that your child has

normal mineral transport, that is NOT absolute. Another test

you could do is the fractionated urine porphyrins test.

I think this one is a little more definitive, BUT it only

tells you that the person is metal toxic, and not which metal.

(It does not narrow it down to " mercury " ).

Info on this test:

http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/ANDY_INDEX.html

Look for the section " determining mercury toxicity:

fractionated urine porphyrins test " .

good wishes,

Moria