Guest guest Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 " I spoke with a resource person for my county's health dept. lead poisoning division regarding chelation. Because chelation is very harsh on a body, it depletes other minerals, and she was concerned that people would chelate their children with lead levels lower than 10 micrograms per deciliter. Here in the US, the current recommendation is to chelate if levels are over 40 mg/dl. With our daughter, we noticed that medicated chelation brought down our daughter's lead levels quickly TO A POINT, but then didn't do much. From all that I have read, lead " mimics " calcium (its chemical composition is very similar to that of calcium), and so we have been urged to give our daughter plenty of calcium. It is the calcium that pushes the lead out of the bones, leeching it into the blood, which is where the blood lead tests find it.I have friends whose sons did test below 10 mg/dl for lead, but high enough to concern them. They did no medicated chelation, but instead gave their sons lots of calcium, and their sons actually reached zero mg/dl blood lead levels. I call that " unmedicated chelation " ! Autism-Lead/message/346 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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