Re: Andy - odd DDI urine toxic metals test results

[Guest guest]

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I don't agree with you....it looks like your child dumped tons of lead.

R

[Guest guest]

I'd agree that the lead looks elevated. You also need to consider that he's

on a low dose so you'll be less likely to see major dumps, but rather slow,

steady ones over time (which is much easier on the body). Another thing to

consider is that the body dumps through the stool as well as urine so low levels

of a particular metal on a urine test don't always mean a particular metal

wasn't dumped.

A final thing to consider is the possibility that high aluminum in his blood

could have just meant a recent exposure (pots/pans? something he ate?), not

what's inside the cells. It's possible his body eliminated that between the

blood test and chelation or that it stored it away but it ready to dump lead

first.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

Urine tests, especially untimed ones like this, are meaningless,

uninterpretable, and of no utility in the kind of situation you are in.

Andy. . . . . . . . .

> Hi,

> Can anyone shed any light on these results. I did this test midway through

round 8 of Jack's chelation - he is on 25mg DMSA, 25mg ALA , he weighs 50lb and

we do 3 days on 11 off.

> I was amazed to see that not much appears to be being excreted, particularly

Al which he has high blood levels of!

>

> This was a morning sample taken on day 2 of chelation.

>

> metal result ug/g creat ref range

>

> Al <dl <60

> Antimony 0.1 <1.5

> arsenic 16 <130

> beryllium <dl <0.6

> bismuth <dl <20

> cadmium 0.3 <2

> lead 7.7 <5

> mercury <dl <5

> nickel 1.5 <15

> platinum <dl <1

> thallium 0.4 <1.1

> thorium <dl <0.5

> tin 0.4 <15

> tungsten <dl <1.5

> uranium <dl <0.2

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> With many thanks for your help

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