Why is EDTA contraindicated in Mercury Toxic??

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I've been trying to find the back up as to why EDTA is contraindicated in

Mercury Toxic people and all I've found are posts where people have said it,

but haven't mentioned why or cited any references. Can someone help me find

this? I believe Andy has said this and also Boyd Haley. I've looked

through the archives on , onibasu and have googled it and have not been

successful.

PS - I'm not asking because I want to give my child EDTA - I would like to

forward this on to someone who is recommending supplements for our kids

containing 1000mg of EDTA per day. So, any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Mom to - 4 years old - recovering from PDD-NOS

Our recovery story: http://www.recoveringnicholas.com

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One word: ineffectiveness.

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can it pick up and redeposit

mercury

in other parts?

Yes. EDTA is particularly bad about this and is a very poor choice in

someone with mercury problems.

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" EDTA chelates mercury (and most other heavy metals) just fine.

However, the amount that it chelates mercury isn't significant enough

to really accellerate clearance as much as you really want to. And it

doesn't clear the brain of the stuff.

A lot of the confusion in medicine would be solved if MD's had real

technical degrees and knew how to do mass balance calculations instead

of just being impressed with what was in the bucket on the day they

did a test. You need the average amount removed to be significant

compared to average excretion for it to be an effective chelator in a

biological sense, which is different from the chemical sense of

whether it has a high equilibrium constant for binding. "

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" EDTA is well known to be of no clinical utility for the treatment of

mercury toxicity, the old

textbooks from before DMSA say this, it is what continues to be observed. "

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>I've been trying to find the back up as to why EDTA is contraindicated in

>Mercury Toxic people and all I've found are posts where people have said it,

>but haven't mentioned why or cited any references. Can someone help me find

>this? I believe Andy has said this and also Boyd Haley. I've looked

>through the archives on , onibasu and have googled it and have not been

>successful.

>

>PS - I'm not asking because I want to give my child EDTA - I would like to

>forward this on to someone who is recommending supplements for our kids

>containing 1000mg of EDTA per day. So, any help is greatly appreciated.

>

>Thank you,

>

>

>

>Mom to - 4 years old - recovering from PDD-NOS

>

>Our recovery story:

><http://www.recoveringnicholas.com>http://www.recoveringnicholas.com

>

>

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> I've been trying to find the back up as to why EDTA is contraindicated in

> Mercury Toxic people and all I've found are posts where people have said it,

It can make them worse, and never makes them better.

This has been well known for a long time, e. g. the 1975 edition of Goodman and

Gilman's Pharmacological basis of Therapeutics discusses the lack of utility of

EDTA for mercury poisoning.

Andy

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