3 week trial of chelation?

[Guest guest]

Thanks for all the answers about aluminum. What I'm hearing strongly

is that it would be better to see if he has mercury that didn't show

up on the hair analysis. I'm also realizing that this is not going

to be a quick road and my idea of starting chelation over the summer

to get a head start is a bit unrealistic...

He has been on a lot of supplements that should be helping a

little. What I'm wondering, is if we gave him a normal (not

challenge) schedule of DMSA for a few weeks (in a few weeks we are

scheduled to redo the hair test), would that be long enough to see if

he has a mercury load? Would it pull some of the mercury out so that

it would show up on the test? Enough at least to indicate that

there was more to be worked on? (We are testing through ARL).

What do you think of that plan? (Keep him on all the supplements,

add low-dose DMSA, and retest hair in 3-4 weeks)?

Then hopefully we would have more data on what type of chelation he

needs (the doc wants to do EDTA because that is best for aluminum but

it doesn't seem very standard).

Thanks,

Stroyan

www.empathic-discipline.com

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[Guest guest]

> What do you think of that plan? (Keep him on all the supplements,

> add low-dose DMSA, and retest hair in 3-4 weeks)?

Very often Hg takes a long long time to show up on hair tests, if it

ever does. Urine and poop tests are notoriously unreliable a well.

I guess I'd say, after being on this list for years and reading a

bazillion parent reports, if your child has anxiety that's bad enough

to get in his way, and if you can put together sources of exposure to

Hg for him (vaccines, amalgams, lots of tuna, breastmilk if you have

amalgams, RhoGam) then really I'd assume he's Hg toxic and do a trial

of 10 rounds and then re-assess. You're likely to find out more from

the 10 rounds than any test you might run trying to catch excretion.

Nell

[Guest guest]

Gosh, for some kids the mercury doesn't come out for months and months.

Barb

[ ] 3 week " trial " of chelation?

Thanks for all the answers about aluminum. What I'm hearing strongly

is that it would be better to see if he has mercury that didn't show

up on the hair analysis. I'm also realizing that this is not going

to be a quick road and my idea of starting chelation over the summer

to get a head start is a bit unrealistic...

He has been on a lot of supplements that should be helping a

little. What I'm wondering, is if we gave him a normal (not

challenge) schedule of DMSA for a few weeks (in a few weeks we are

scheduled to redo the hair test), would that be long enough to see if

he has a mercury load? Would it pull some of the mercury out so that

it would show up on the test? Enough at least to indicate that

there was more to be worked on? (We are testing through ARL).

What do you think of that plan? (Keep him on all the supplements,

add low-dose DMSA, and retest hair in 3-4 weeks)?

Then hopefully we would have more data on what type of chelation he

needs (the doc wants to do EDTA because that is best for aluminum but

it doesn't seem very standard).

Thanks,

Stroyan

www.empathic-discipline.com

Click here to email me directly:

<mailto:lstroyan@...>lstroyan@...