Can we start ALA?- Andy

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Thanks for the help from my previous post...

I am still wondering though if it is safe to start giving him ALA with his

DMSA...

What was so weird about my son's high blood Hg levels in December was that the

test was

done prior to chelation, at least a year after his last vaccine...He doesn't eat

fish and we

live in the Wine country in Northern CA. I am guessing that his second blood

test showed

no Hg because we have been chelating him with DMSA for about 7 weeks.

We did my daughter's test to see if we have blatant Hg exposure in our house and

her test

was Mercury=0.001 (Ref <=0.01) Is this low enough to assume that it would be

safe to

use ALA n my son as well? I guess it could have been a lab error on the first

test...that

would actually be so great!

We have dropped his DMSA to 12.5mg every 4 hours...I am just wondering if we are

ready

to add the ALA to help really get it out or if it will do harm than good given

the potential of

recent exposure... (When I get my fillings out in a few weeks I know that I

will have to wait

months before I can take the ALA.)

Thank you for any help you can give!

>

> Hi Everyone,

> I am hoping that you and Andy can help me...

>

> I wrote a few months back because my son had very high porphyrin levels and

high

> mercury in his red blood cells. The Message #was 195503 if anyone has time to

check

the

> old thread...I will recap a bit here...The blood test indicated potential

recent exposure,

> which was very scary and unexpected.

>

> *When was his most recent vaccine prior to that? Do you live near a

coal-fired power

plant, eat any seafood/fish? Were you chelating at the time? If so, were you

chelating the

day or days before they drew the blood?

>

> I am sorry this is so long, but Andy said he'd take a

> look once we had our daughter's test results and I hope you all can give me

some

> guidance.

>

> In December, my son's red blood cell Toxic Elements (from Genova) scores were:

> Lead=0.027 (Reference Range <=0.048mcg/g)

> Mercury=0.0583 (Ref <=0.0039mcg/g)

> Antimony=0.002(<=0.002mcg/g)

> Arsenic=0.016(<=0.029mcg/g)

> Cadmium <dl (0.001mcg/g)

> Tin 0.0050 (<=0.0009mcg/g)

>

> Since then, we have tested his sister who is NT, 17 months older and spends

her time

> around him a great deal to see if she too has been exposed recently. She has

high

> porphyrins, but nowhere near as high as my son's, probably due to the 10

amalgams in

> my mouth when I had them. (I am getting them removed by an IAOMT dentist in

May.)

We

> plan to chelate all of us. We cannot figure out where they could be getting

recent

> exposure and it is making us crazy.

>

> My daughter's red blood cell test from DDL in March shows:

>

> Lead=0.028 (Reference Range <=0.09)

> Mercury=0.001 (Ref <=0.01)

> Arsenic=0.002(<=0.01)

> Cadmium 0.001 (0.005)

>

> Does the fact that she has a detectible level mean that she is being exposed?

I have

> turned our lives upside down trying to find sources I can control. We do live

in a fairly

> agricultiral area in Northern Ca...could it be from the general environment?

We are the

> first owners of a 7 year old house and have never had a mercury thermometer in

here.

We

> also do not recall ever having broken a florescent light bulb or anything

along those

> lines... We even had our water tested...it was celan but we RO filter it

anyway just to be

> sure...

>

> From March, my son's red blood cells (drom DDL) now show:

> Lead=0.031 (Reference Range <=0.09)

> Mercury=<0.001 (Ref <=0.01)

> Arsenic=0.0006(<=0.01)

> Cadmium 0.001 (0.005)

>

> What do these new levels mean? If it helps, they were drawn on the final " off "

day of our

> 3rd round.

>

> *Any chance they mised up his results with somebody else in Dec? Did they use

proper

reference range for his age/gender?

>

> His urine toxic metals (which we did over 8 hours through his first 2 doses of

DMSA in

> round 4) do not really show him dumping much yet. His results were:

> Lead = 4.9 (ref <5)

> Mercury = 2 (<5)

> Thallium = 0.5 (<1.1)

> Tin = 4 (<20)

> Arsenic = 39 (<200)

> Antimony= 0.2 (<2)

> Nickel = 3.5 (<20)

> Tungsten = 0.3 (<2)

> they also listed his Creatinine 51 (ref 15-120)

>

> My husband and I are freaking out...we are following Andy's protocol with our

DAN

except

> we are a little over the high end...25mg every 4 hours for a 41lb boy, 2.6

days on/4.4

off.

> We do the supplements but are thinking of dropping the DMSA down because we

are

> seeing a few side effects like occasionally not eating and getting yeasty

(playing with

spit

> bubbles, screeching, being grumpy at school).

>

> *Try dropping the dose down. Chelation is a marathon, not a sprint.

>

> He is a normally happy kid who is making

> some social/play progress and has been speaking in single word sentences for a

long

> time. Though some things are really improving, he has not changed a ton in the

past 6

> weeks or started speaking in sentences. I have been reading Moria's site of

archived files

> like a loon and know that Andy says to look more at behavior than the tests,

but should

I

> be freaking out about these test results? What should I do? I also wonder if

those RBC

> scores mean that we will never

>

> *never say never. Consider doing hair elements tests about once a year and

applying

counting rules. Also pay attention to your observations of behavior/symptoms.

Is there a

particular reason you're doing blood tests? They are not particularly useful in

regards to

metal toxicity and sound like they're providing more stress than useful info.

>

> be able to begin ALA to get it out of their brains. Ugh.

>

> Thank you all of any help you can give...

>

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