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Again, my apologies for the less-than-perfect tables. Cutting the text and

pasting to a new message seems to straighten things out. I don't know why.

Our 8 year-old son is neurotypical, but we knew his 7 year-old autistic

brother had high copper levels. Our 8 year-old is bright but has always

been a concern for his teachers because they feel he is underachieving and

maybe lazy. He has difficulty with attention, and it takes hours to do even

simple homework. He used to be good at spelling, but his ability to even

copy a list of words has deteriorated. In third grade, his graphomotor

skills are at a level about at the end of kindergarten. He hates to write,

and has a very difficult time getting his ideas from his brain to his paper.

We decided to take him to Pfeiffer last January. At that time, his blood

lead levels were 9 ug/dl (ref range 0-9). Great Smokies hair testing showed

hair aluminum, antimony, lead, nickel, and uranium to be in the high range

(aluminum, antimony, and uranium were extremely high). Interestingly,

mercury was <.25, but as you can see below, his hair mercury is now

measurable.

Symptom-wise, has a lot of headaches. His attention is poor. Social

skills are poor even though he is a fun-loving kid. He had friends in

kindergarten, but has lost most of his friends over the past two years.

It took us a long time to realize something was wrong because we attributed

a lot of his problems to the intensity of having an autistic brother. He

scores high on most subtests of the Woodcock Achievement test, and

his teacher wonders if he is possibly gifted. SOMETHING is going on

biologically, though, because we had him tested by the school OT who said

that his vestibular system functioning makes her wonder how he can walk

across a room (strange because he is coordinated and very good at baseball

and basketball).

Our 8 year-old is not as sensitive to supplements as our autistic son, so we

did not have to start things as slowly with supplements. We began

supplementation last January. Progress has been very slow, although his

serum lead levels are down to 2 ug/dl (ref range 0-9). At the August

Pfeiffer outreach, even the nurse wondered if there had been any benefit at

all, and we all wondered what we are missing. He seems depressed. It is

alarming to us that his graphomotor skills seem to be actually be

deteriorating. At this point, we are wondering if we should embark upon more

traditional chelation. We have our Pfeiffer outreach appointment on

February 9 (we leave Feb 8) Any other suggestions would be greatly

appreciated.

Supplement schedule:

Breakfast: 500 mg. Vitamin C

Pyrodoxine (Vitamin B6) 300 mg

Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate 50 mg

250 mg. Vitamin B5

3750 IU Vitamin A (Cod Liver Oil ? Solgar brand)

1 Capsule Evening Primrose Oil

Dinner:: 500 mg. Vitamin C

10 mg. Manganese Gluconate

200 IU Vitamin E Succinate

65 mg. Zinc Picolonate

400/400 mg. Calcium/Magnesium

Bedtime: 1 tablet Primal Defense

Transdermal Methyl B12 2500 mg.

MTP II 175.5 mg. Friday, Saturday, Sunday ONLY (begin 10/18/03)

Doctor?s Data Hair Test 8/13/2003

POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS

element result ref range color

=============================================

aluminum 19 <8.0 Yellow

antimony 0.048 <0.66 Green

arsenic 0.045 <0.08 Green

beryllium <0.01 <0.02 Green

bismuth 0.058 <0.12 Green

cadmium 0.24 <0.15 Yellow

lead 0.85 <1.0 Green

mercury 0.39 <0.4 Green

platinum <0.003 <0.005 Green

thallium <0.001 0.01 Green

thorium 0.002 <0.005 Green

uranium 0.17 <0.06 Yellow

nickel 0.89 <0.4 Yellow

silver 0.42 <0.13 Yellow

tin 0.26 <0.3 Green

titanium 1.3 <1.0 Yellow

ESSENTIAL AND OTHER ELEMENTS

element result ref range color under/over 50%

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Calcium 593 160-500 Yellow Over

Magnesium 330 12-50 Red Over

Sodium 48 12-90 Green Over

Potassium 5.0 10-40 Yellow Under

Copper 140 9.0-30 Red Over

Zinc 230 110-190 Yellow Over

Manganese 0.28 0.18-0.6 White Under

Chromium 0.33 0.23-0.5 Green Over

Vanadium 0.089 0.025-0.1 Green Over

Molybdenum 0.14 0.04-0.089 Yellow Over

Boron 2.1 0.5-3.5 Green Over

Iodine 0.77 0.25-1.3 Green Over

Lithium 0.015 0.007-0.023 Green Over

Phosphorus 209 160-250 Green Over

Selenium 0.96 0.95-1.7 Green Under

Strontium 3.3 0.21-2.1 Yellow Over

Sulfur 50800 45500-5300 Green Over

Barium 1.8 0.19-1.6 Yellow Over

Cobalt 0.073 0.013-0.03 Yellow Over

Iron 18 6.0-17 Green Over

Germanium 0.04 0.045-0.065 Yellow Under

Rubidium 0.019 0.008-0.08 White Under

Zirconium 1.4 0.06-0.7 Yellow Over

To all who take the time to think about the above, THANK YOU from the bottom

of my heart.

Sincerely,

,

Mom to and

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