Constipated/Withholding Kids Who Chelate - Next Issues

[Guest guest]

Well, the last few days has been like a coming out party! I guess

those of us whose kids could not poop regularly and are blocked from

chelating by our doctors and hear-say are numerous. What's next for

us and perhaps other families like our include these items - please help:

1. We need to buy chelating agents - dmsa, dmps, ala, without a

prescription because our doctors won't support us. What are the best

sources of non-prescription chelators used by low dosers in this group

who have chelated successfully? Please mention websites, brand names

etc. that you feel are " clean " or convenient sources. It's a little

scary to buy things on the internet not knowing the quality of the

company.

2. I've heard much mention of high-dose vitamin C to move things in

the gut, but wondered what kinds of doses were successfully used by

listmembers in their kids to reverse withholding, and what form. We

bought buffered C because we heard it avoided some " problems " of too

much Vit C acid form - I can't remember what those were now, but my

daughter was crabby and gut-uncomfortable for the 2-3 days we used it

without producing any changes in poop habits. I've also heard of

ester C. What are the best forms to produce poop (perhaps the acid is

required and this is a side effect only for the acid).

3. Monitoring - we may need tests that don't require a doctor's

prescription to monitor body mercury burden. There's the french

porphyrin test and I just heard of an oral test using fluid between

teeth and gum from www.amsalivatesting.com which is supposed to

correlate with body burden for lead and mercury. Are there others?

Has anyone tried the oral test and found it correlated with porphyrin

testing/body burden? btw the company says it's coming out with a

study proving the test does that in the next few weeks or months.

[Guest guest]

> 1. We need to buy chelating agents - dmsa, dmps, ala, without a

> prescription because our doctors won't support us. What are the best

> sources of non-prescription chelators used by low dosers in this group

> who have chelated successfully?

For DMSA, check here

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

I bought ALA from my local health food store. I used Natural Factors

brand. I know you can purchase it online also, like from Kirkman.

> 2. I've heard much mention of high-dose vitamin C to move things in

> the gut, but wondered what kinds of doses were successfully used by

> listmembers in their kids to reverse withholding, and what form.

For my kids, vitamin C addressed viruses, and viral " die off " tends to

cause yeast, and yeast can be constipating. So, for my kids, vitamin

C caused constipation until the viruses were gone. At that point,

vitamin C caused behavioral problems. It never did cause diarrhea,

strangely enough, even when I gave too much.

For my kids, constipation was eliminated with GSE [for yeast] and

magnesium [for deficiency].

> 3. Monitoring - we may need tests that don't require a doctor's

> prescription to monitor body mercury burden.

I " tested " my kids by observation. I never used official tests.

Dana