debating whether to continue chelation

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My husband and I have done one (poorly administered) DMSA chelation round with

our almost-four-year-old son. After a day of low-dose DMSA (unevenly dosed, due

to my mistake), he came down with a high fever and we aborted the round.

Thankfully, he seems to have recovered completely from that (four days of high

fever, fatigue, and reduced appetite followed by one night of non-itchy red

spotty rash on legs). His pediatrician thinks, in hindsight, that his affliction

may have been roseola.

We've seen some surprising and encouraging new behaviors after just this one

brief round, the most dramatic being that his potty training seems to be back,

such that he hasn't been wetting his pants as much and has been staying dry at

night. I introduced No-Fenol three days ago and the dark circles under his eyes

seemed to vanish as I watched. Today at a crowded busy mall, he handled

transitions with little complaint and the whole time held himself together,

positive behaviors we haven't seen in months.

At the same time, we are having second thoughts about chelation. Our

pediatrician has a bad feeling about it, and generally we trust her judgment,

though we have gone against her wishes in a few instances. We're wondering what

types of side effects are likely and whether reliable, low-risk protocols exist

for handling them. Obviously we wish to avoid is regression, and my

understanding is that the AC protocol manages that (if we follow it properly!).

At the moment he doesn't seem to be regressing in general, just lacking some

social skills development that happens around his age. It seems there are fairly

well understood protocols for treating yeast and parasite infections, so we

think we could handle those. But we've been reading about other side effects

like viral infections (perhaps our son's roseola thing was one) and we're not

sure whether those are as (relatively) easily handled...? Our son's four-day

fever badly scared us and him, as he'd never been sick like that before. We're

also nervous because our son had long-term exposure to black mold (had a chronic

cough for months in winter 2008-9), and we don't know whether that's truly gone

or might be lurking somewhere in his little body and might be " released " or

perturbed by chelation...?

What happens to high-functioning spectrum kids who have gut issues (yeast and/or

parasite infections, leaky gut, food intolerances or insensitivities), sleep

issues, and behavior issues and *don't* get much chelation? Can these resolve

" on their own " in time?

Does anyone have chelation experience with a child who has been exposed to black

mold? Did the mold ever present itself? If so, what were the circumstances, and

how did you deal with it?

Has anyone properly followed the AC protocol and yet experienced unexpected

regression? If so, what happened, how did you handle it, and was the regression

permanent? (Please send me a message privately if you prefer not to share it

further than with my husband and me.)

Thank you kindly,