lead testing/consumer products

[Guest guest]

Hi

Has anyone bought a handheld lead testing machine? If so, how does it

work, how accurate is it (as opposed to the swab testers), what can it

not work on and lastly how much roughtly are they?

We have had lead still coming up after years of chelation and I am

desperate to get rid of the lead I can. It clear it has been in sources

one would never think of.

Thanks

Alice

[Guest guest]

Curious: how many years have you actually been chelating, what are you

using (oral DMSA?), what are you testing to monitor lead excretion

(hair? urine?) and how much lead is still coming out?

Where you live might be the problem. Have you checked environmental

lead sources to see if you have the potential to have lead-ladened soil

or air? What about school water fountains (Seattle's school district

is famous for their leaded water)?

Either you or a spouse have exposure to lead at work that you might

bring home on your shoes and clothes?

I hear ingesting lead the size of a grain of sand can result in

elevated lead readings; it doesn't take much. Good to know your child

is excreting... but I know you want to stop the exposure.

Thanks,

Pam

(lead kid over here, too, I think)

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> Hi

> Has anyone bought a handheld lead testing machine? If so, how does it

> work, how accurate is it (as opposed to the swab testers), what can

it

> not work on and lastly how much roughtly are they?

>

> We have had lead still coming up after years of chelation and I am

> desperate to get rid of the lead I can. It clear it has been in

sources

> one would never think of.

>

> Thanks

> Alice

>

[Guest guest]

Have you read a book called " Lead the Silent Hazard " ?

This helped us pinpoint every possible location and source. However,

some you cannot eliminate in the general sense of air/food etc.

I would also ask what your basing the Lead levels on? What kind of

test is being done that tells you Lead is still too high.

Also consider that you may still see Lead coming out because it can

take a long time to get it out. How long depends on how many years and

how much exposure they had before chelation began. For example and

adult like me who grew up in a Lead hot zone would take many more

years than a child with three years of exposure.

Lead stores in bones and takes a long time of slow chelation with

breaks between rounds to pull it all out of the bones.

I don't think anyone here has an XRF machine. (Bear in mind these are

x-ray flouresence, not sure how safe that is to own)but they are accurate.

It might actually be better to hire a Lead specialist to come and

evaluate and test your home.

I have no idea what they cost but they are more sensitive for

detecting Lead. The swabs are a good start, but only detect up to a

point. A certain ppb amount. The XRF detects levels to low for the swabs.

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> Hi

> Has anyone bought a handheld lead testing machine? If so, how does it

> work, how accurate is it (as opposed to the swab testers), what can it

> not work on and lastly how much roughtly are they?

>

> We have had lead still coming up after years of chelation and I am

> desperate to get rid of the lead I can. It clear it has been in sources

> one would never think of.

>

> Thanks

> Alice

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