Amy Holmes, MD,
http://www.healing-arts.org/children/holmes.htm#wethink
Metal-Metabolism
and Autism: Defective
Functioning of Metallothionein Protein, Amy Holmes,
MD; http://www.healing-arts.org/children/metal-metabolism.htm
(note:
see end of file for a clinic with a chelation
protocol that may to be even more successful than Dr. Holmes)
the bad news is that there is a huge increase in childhood conditions like autism and ADD. the good news is that autism is really looking like a neurotoxic problem, with all the other biochemical problems secondary to the presence of the toxins. This is good news because
this is something we have a chance of fixing. And
it appears that, if you can get these toxins out at a reasonably early age, the
child can be "indistinguishable from his peers". Mercury looks like
it is usually the biggest problem, but, it doesn't look like most cases are
purely mercury and mercury alone. There are some other heavy metals that play a
big part, both by themselves and by (horrors of all horrors) potentiating the toxicity of mercury. For example antimony
is almost always extremely high, with arsenic, lead, cadmium sometimes high,
and we are also finding solvents like hexane or xylene
or organochlorines or such as benzene to be sometimes
high.
I think just about all the kids today are getting pretty high exposures to various toxins. The main ones that are having major problems are those with defective or immature detox systems in the
liver, although the exposure to mercury is
certainly higher today than it has ever been in infancy before. 6 to 8 vaccines containing thimerosal in the first year alone - the
first on the 1st or 2nd day out of the womb. This is a relatively recent
development (last 10 years), and I think this fact alone accounts for the
epidemic of autism seen in the last 10 years.
So far, I have gotten hair tests from 110 autistic children - all but one fit the counting rule for mercury/metals toxicity- that you diagnose mercury toxicity based on a large number of essential mineral levels being abnormal.. The essential elements are widely scattered all over the place. I also have some hair tests from "normal" people - about 10 total. The most interesting comes from a 25 year-old woman with no amalgams ever. Her essential elements are right around the mean. We got her hair just because of her amalgam- free status. She was not a patient.
Amy Holmes
[protocol: Dr. Holmes stated the following: Step 1: DMSA 1 mg / lb. every 3 to 4 hours
Step 2: DMSA .5 mg / lb and
As for supplementation, it very important to do.]
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We have a little over 300 autistic kids in the practice. I am at home, so I don't have any of the charts handy, but I will give it a try giving you the most typical picture I see:
1. Hair (Toxic Metals)
very high antimony - almost universal
high aluminum
high arsenic
high-normal to high cadmium
high-normal to high lead
slightly high mercury
the others are not consistently high or normal or
low.
Here's an example (I have a couple I brought home to go over the
results prior to seeing the parents back)
5 y/o WM
Hair - Doctor's Data (ref range - 68th pctile in parentheses)
aluminum 11 (<8)
antimony 1.506 (<0.066)
arsenic 0.16 (<0.08)
beryllium <0.01 (<0.02)
bismuth 0.48 (<0.13)
cadmium 0.077 (<0.15)
lead 1.12 (<1)
mercury 0.43 (<0.4)
titanium 1.3 (<1)
the others were OK
We have just started testing kids in the beginning of treatment with urine
toxic elements (Doctor's Data). We cannot get a 24-hour urine on most, so we
get an 8-hour urine, and have to base our decisions on mcg/g creatinine instead of mcg/24-hours. We do a challenge test
with DMSA, low-dose for 2 days, collect the urine on
day 2. So far, almost all the tests fall into the same ranges - mercury is
coming out in large amounts along with other metals.
Here is an example - not the same child, unfortunately.
6 y/o WM
aluminum 10 (0 - 35)
antimony .4 (0 - 5) - DMSA does not pull antimony out well at all
arsenic 154 (0 - 100)
bismuth 3.7 (0 - 30)
cadmium 5 (0 - 2)
lead 31 (0 - 15)
mercury 28 (0 - 3)
nickel 12 (0 - 12)
... the rest are low, so I won't list them
Consistent findings:
1. elevated
2. elevated total IgE
3. high intracellular calcium, low zinc, selenium, magnesium
4. other trace minerals either low or on very low side of normal
(except potassium and copper) - this persists even with
supplementation.
5. Inability to fully break down gluten and casein (high casomorphins
and gliadinomorphins on
urine test) - ? inhibition of DPP IV
Well, the list goes on and on and on.
And, you are right. Most of us DAN! types think
ADHD/ADD are on the same spectrum as autism, just affected to a lesser degree.
That is a good question about the pyrroles, and I
don't know much about them. I know they are present in elevated amounts in
urine in schizophrenics and people with autism, and those that have elevated
values waste B6 and zinc in their urine. Woody McGinnis is the expert on this
matter.
I am very aware of the UF report on the effect on peptides being a major
factor in autism . BTW, I did my internship and
residency at UF, so I have a big fond spot in my heart for anyone who is
affiliated with UF. Robert Cade is a pioneer in this
area and I have a lot of respect for him and his work.
Bernie, this whole mercury thing has put autism into a new light. I think that, finally, we may be able to offer some good safe treatment to these kids with a reasonable hope of some
normalization if they are treated early. Amy
Bernie Rimland.(
>>
>>It appears that there is no difference in children "born" autistic and those who were developing normally and then had a regression. The only real difference may be the timing of the poisoning and maybe some individual susceptibility.
>>
(Amy became interested in treatment of austistic kids when her son became autistic)
I can tell you what I did to my son:
1. had 21 amalgam fillings in my mouth while I was pregnant
2. ate tuna at least 3 times a week while pregnant
3. use thimerosal-containing contact lens solution while pregnant.
4. he got all vaccines "on time", all the ones that could have possibly contained mercury did contain it. >>Amy
my son Mike - DOB
> Unremarkable pregnancy. Born by planned C-section (advanced maternal age and very large baby). Weight 9 pounds, 2 oz. Very healthy.
> Apgars 8/9. Uneventful first year. Got all immunizations on time.
> Sat at 4 months, crawled at 7 months, walked at 10 months. Spoke first word at 9 months.
By 12 months, had 10 to 15 words. Good eye contact, good imitative skills, very social.
> Stopped talking 5 days after
>By 18 months was in his own world. Would not even respond to his name. We asked everyone why he was acting this way, including several pediatricians - no answers. Finally diagnosed as autistic at 26 months.
> We began an intensive
elevated. She gave him DMSA 100 three times a day for 5 days, followed by 100 mg twice a day for 2 weeks (the old treatment).
> By 1 month after this first chelation course, he had improved noticeably - behavior was better, no longer as "zoned out" as before, was no longer pale, looked healthier. Repeated the
> hair analysis several months later. This showed a significant drop in lead, but still high antimony and aluminum, and to our surprise, a high level of mercury. No one knew what this meant at the time -
> this subsequent high level of mercury meant that mercury had been mobilized back into the bloodstream, thus could finally show up in the hair. Looking back, if we had realized the significance of this finding then, Mike would be completely recoved now.
>
> After this, we pursued other areas like getting rid of yeast and pathogenic bacteria, gluten and casein-free diet, getting rid of multiple food allergies, and did not return to the heavy metal
> issue until he was 4 years old. By this time, I had taken over his case. I repeated a hair analysis for heavy metals when he was 4. Mercury had dropped (of course - it had gone back into its favorite storage areas), but aluminum and antimony were still very, very high, and the lead was back up to elevated range.
> I started him on a kinder, gentler course using DMSA 200 mg TID for 3 days, off for 11 days while repleting minerals. I repeated this 2 week cycle for a total of 4 cycles, then got a toxic urine screen on the last cycle. To my surprise, tons of mercury were coming out.
> That is when I started investigating mercury-autism connection in Mike's
case. After a few weeks, I was convinced that mercury was responsible for a lot
of his problems, so we continued with the same 2 week cycles of DMSA for
several more months, repeated the urine toxic metal screen with almost the same
findings. From April of 1999 to the present, I have been doing these 2 week
cycles,
range for mercury (provocative urine).
>
> One year ago, Mike was essentially non-verbal and preferred to engage in meaningless self-stimulatory behaviors. Today (5/00), he speaks in sentences, addresses people by name to get their attention, and no longer "stims" non-stop. His receptive language is excellent, expressive is still 2 years behind his peers (but is catching up fast). His pronunciation, which had been so bad as to make any words completely unintelligible, is now improving to
the point that we can understand almost everything he says.
...
And as far as my son goes, I have no neurologic or behavioral evidence left in him to suggest that mercury is still a significant problem for him - he is talking, answering questions, carrying on conversations. His strabismus is gone. His bilateral Babinski sign are now gone. He no longer walks on his toes. I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that I used DMSA every 8 hours, 3 days "on" and 11 days "off" and he is not the same horribly impaired child that he was even a year ago.
> I intend to continue chelation until no more mercury comes out on provocative urine toxic metal screen.
> Hope this helps,> Amy Holmes <aholmesmd@pol.net> DAN MD
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I have obtained almost 110 hair analyses now on autistic kids. So far,
essential elements. What I am not finding is elevated hair calcium -
in fact, most have VERY
I have almost 25 hair tests from "normal" people. Most have no amalgams
at all - only one has the "scattered pattern". 20 of the hair tests are
from children who are NT - none of these show the "scattered" pattern.
The one scattered pattern I have from a normal person is from an adult
with a mounthful of amalgams. As
far as anyone can tell, he has no overt symptoms or signs of heavy metal
toxicity.
Another thing I am finding consistently is evidence of uncoupling
of oxidative phosphorylation from the Krebs cycle - almost 100%
across the board - another mercury effect.
Amy
There was a lot of anecdotal evidence
presented - for instance, the one that really stuck with me. Four year-old girl
with really bad autism. The "before" videotape was
hard to watch - she was in therapy (and had been doing a good
sundry tests to determine metal loads, toxicity, and levels of other non-metal toxins. Lots of metals, xylene, hexane. Many, many biochemical impairments. She was started on a pretty intensive detox for all the things that were found. The metals were addressed with DMSA mostly. (The aluminum, antimony were handled separately). Plus other things for the xylene and hexane and whatever the other things were (sorry, can't remember exactly what the others were). Two "after" videos were shown. The first was 1 year later. Again
in
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I do believe we are looking at a multi-facated problem with autism and yes,
mercury can be a big part, but other parts exists and combine to make the
whole. We have seen big improvement in both of our boys so I know we are on
the right track and I appreciate all the efforts on this list as we travel
down the road together. Sharon Howell Baton Rouge, LA showell10@aol.com
( mom to Mike AS 12 and Brian ADHD 8 & proud patients of Dr.Amy Holmes)
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I believe that my son would have had more severe autistic symptoms if he had not weighed nearly 11 lbs. Instead of that "chicken" look, he had visible fat on his arms as a newborn. Given all the mercury he and I both had churning around our bodies, (Rhogam, root canal, Hepatitis-B) I think his high birthweight diluted the effects somewhat. Looking back, he had behavioral
regressions after each mercury vaccine, and the effects do seem cumulative. BTW, John was the only baby I delivered naturally, without being induced. My others weighed 7 and 9 lbs.
Kathy "Liam E McCarthy" <liamm@idt.net>
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I think your facts are correct regarding rhogam and the connection to autism. I had rhogam shots with all three pregnancies. All of my children are positive and I'm negative. I also had an
extra rhogam with my third child (the one with autism) right after amniocentesis (sp). I believe my youngest child got the full load of mercury from all the shots I was given.
"Joyce MacFarlane" <joycemacfarlane@home.com>
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Vaccines kill. The following chiIdren suffered a
severe reaction to a routine DPT (diphtheria. pertussis,
tetanus),
Chris - Christopher died 21 hours after receiving his 1st DPT & OPV vaccinations at two months of age.
Ashley - Within 72 hours of her 4th DPT and OPV and
Richell - Within 10 hours of 3rd DPT and OPV Richell suffered a grand mal seizure. She is now severely mentally and physically handicapped.
Kimber - Within 3 hours of 1st DPT and OPV Kimberly suffered 103 degree fever, high pitched screaming and convulsions. Kimberlie died 2 years later.
Josh - Within 6 hours of 3rd DPT and OPV, at an age of 6 months, Josh suffered high pitched screaming, a 101 degree fever followed by a one hour grand mal seizure. Josh is moderate to severely mentally retarded and severely language delayed.
Anna - Within 2 days of her 1st
Matthew - Within 26 hours of 1st DPT and OPV and after projectile vomiting, staring, and behavior change Matthew died.
Sean - Within 3 hours of 3rd DPT and OPV at 8 months old Sean suffered swelling, high pitched screaming, projectile vomiting, diarrhea, and behavior change. Sean has learning disability with severe motor damage.
"kevysmom04"
<dma_nc1@hotmail.com>
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Hi, My son Daniel recieved the Hep B shot 2 days after he was born( and I know that his immune system had to be weak due to an infection I had right before labor and a severe
reaction I had to pennicilin(sp?)while in labor. Anyway, after that he hit all his mile
stones a little on the late side but still on the charts. And he was connected to us, said a
few words(bye bye, dada, baba)all at 1 year of age.
A few months later he recieved the
weeks. And then he woke up, boy did he wake up, he SCREAMED every minute of the
day for about another 2 weeks, and he began head
banging, he was so angry. And then he stopped, and I mean stopped. No more
talking no more connection, no more eating(very picky)
and no to very little eye contact. It was at this time he withdrew not only
from
me but from the world. Do I believe it had something to do with the vaccines??YES!! Lindy
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My son regressed into autism almost immediately after
At age 4 1/2, he got a TETANUS shot...he regressed horribly, spent the next 6-8 months spinning, running, howling with a repetitive voice pattern almost constantly. I had to get out of the house or lose my mind! He has not spoken a word since then, except for one night when he had a high fever, when he spoke a 5 word sentence. (the only one in his life) He now
"tries" to say words (thanks to
my son. Mary Holcomb <gotojoshua1_9@yahoo.com>
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From: "Jennifer Rochester"
<rochester@clarinda.heartland.net>
My daughter had
Of course, this is all anecdotal, so it must not have really happened :-) Well, most of my friends have had their kids be vaccinated in the same manner, so it seems to be pretty 'normal'.
For us, I refused to get her vaccinated unless she was in real good health (geez, at least I knew THAT much - too bad it wasn't enough though ) so we were 'a little behind' . They decided to
catch her up all at once. I asked many times if they were sure it would be ok.
Something in my gut kept screaming 'NO -
then started getting really nasty and threatened
calling
I gave in to his bullying. GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jennifer
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I have been stunned to look at my child's medical records from his first year of
life. ANTIBIOTICS COMBINED WITH VACCINES DID A NUMBER ON MY CHILD..... I
WISH THAT I WOULD HAVE REALIZED WHAT WAS GOING ON. Take a look at this
and tell me if you think my child stood a chance of surviving this
"onslought" of medical interventions without any harm:
> Born
> Dr. visit about THRUSH
> Dr. visit for Hep B
shot
> Dr. Visit for additional vaccines4/16/96
> Dr. visit
> Dr. visit for vaccines
> Dr. visit for ear infection Antibiotic
prescribed
> Dr. visit for ear infection Antibiotic
prescribed
> Dr. visit
> Dr. visit for vaccines
> Dr. visit
>
>
RECHECK OF THE
4/98 VENTILATION TUBE
Does anyone else see a pattern here??? I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY COUNTLESS
CHILDREN HAVE THIS SAME HISTORY? BY THE WAY, MY CHILD
USED TO INTERACT
KELLY LEIGH Kelly l Meyer <recovering2@juno.com>
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Vaccines were defintely a factor in my children
developing autism. I have three children,
ages 7, 4 and 2. My two older ones developed autism somewhere after 18 months
after developing typically. My 2 year old has never been vaccinated and is
continuing to develop normally. Tina in
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I know you have no background on my 4 year old son. He had developed
normally. Near his first birthday, he had had an allergic reaction to a sulfomide (sp?) antibiotic (treatment for an ear
infection), was put on another antibiotic, developed a high fever, was then hospitalized for rotavirus. We cancelled his
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Regarding the constant ear infections after vaccinations, with the exception of the Rotovirus, my son's history is pretty much the same as yours and most of those being discussed. He had constant ear infections since 4 months of age, three sets of tubes, antibiotics since age 4 months to age 3 - pretty constant - all the vaccines in between - 8 vaccines on one day like yours. It absolutely makes me sick to think of how ignorant I was and we cannot go back in time. What's
worse is how ignorant the doctors are.Cheryl Lmart96834@aol.com
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The history of your child does sound very similar to me. My twins
had over 35 ear infections/antibiotic treatments APIECE between the
ages of 1 and 6. It would be next to impossible to exclude them from
vaccines and antibiotic use at the same time; however, they didn't
even try. So now they are autistic and PDD. yanosky5@aol.com
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From: ckcarlson@earthlink.net
I noticed you listed the shots your daughter received in one day. My grandson received the DPT, Hib, HepB, and OPV at 2 months. He had a severe reaction of high pitch crying, fever, jerking that I believe were convulsions, glazed eyes, the doctor didn't seemed surprised or
concerned, except to say they would give DT, IPV
instead of the dpt and opv
from then on. That gave us a false sense of security (safety). My daughter has
told me he had similar behavior each time. He was late getting his last round
of shots (20 months) and at that time received the DPT, Hib,
HepB, IPV,
some words come and go, but are few, since we started the GFCF diet. Haven't been able to get to a doctor that can help yet due to the cost of the tests and so forth. I know this is long. What gets me about
the mandatory vaccinations, is that here in
saying you are volunarily giving your child the shots, and it even
says you request it! And yet the
want them? How can Americans stand for this, and especially when
they are killing some infants, and maiming others. God help us!
Cathy
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That is the same scenario with my son. He received 4 vaccines in one day on
three different occasions! No wonder he's autistic.
Kris "Al and Kris Asker" <aka@micron.net>
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My son's symptoms developed after vaccinations at 15 months. The killer to me is that we continued to dutifully vaccinate him even after he was clearly symptomatic. What's worse is that although his symptoms (sensory hypersensitivity, vestibular and proprioceptive
dysfunction, lability, GI problems, respiratory problems etc. ) were worst from about 18 months to 3 1/2 years old he began to make enormous progress with GF/CF diet and vitamin and amino acid supplementation. Unfortunately when he turned 4, he had multiple boosters on the same day and we saw an immediate, sharp decline. I could scream for allowing the doctor to give
> him those shots. It kills me that even then she didn't question the wisdom of giving him more shots!! Pat Gallagher <patgallagher@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Hep-B poll
I also blame the Hep b shot as an addition to the program, even starting at 2 months. I have 4 kids. Jack received his hep b at 2,4 and 6 months. My 2 girls before Jack did not get hep b until
after 2 yrs old. My youngest Luke received the hep b at 2, 5 and 9 months and he has the mushy stool like Jack. I did not give Luke any other immunizations. Hep b before 6 months is not a good idea. Interesting note: My father-in-law trains and breeds guide dogs for the blind. The owners are not allowed to give the dogs more than one immunization at a time because, in the past the dogs developed health problems. They also get homeopathic immune boosting meds before and after shots. *****
new info: I started my son on
Convinced this was working, I found a doctor to prescribe the DMSA to use
with the
new info: What I think is so amazing is every cycle of chelation I see improvement in motor planning. Two cycles ago, Jack started putting his plate into the sink when finish eating, w/o being asked. This cycle he started standing on the arm of my couch and doing a slow
front summy onto the couch. I can't wait until the speech motor planning improves. It is, but
not quick enough for me. Marianne
marib005@hotmail.com
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My son received the hep. B vaccine at birth. He screamed and screamed for weeks. We then gave him all vaccines on scedule, each time he would scream for days and days. His recent DPT booster is what had me do research and I personally am allergic to thimerosal and that's when I found out that there was thimerosal in vaccines. He regressed in behavior and communication after the DPT, still not back to where he was but at least he isn't screaming my head my
head my head anymore...poor little guy...makes me angry. Donna
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I fully immunized my first two children and they have PDD. I partially
immunized my third child and he had ADHD. I have not immunized my fourth
child and (so far) he is perfectly normal. I realize that this doesn't prove
anything to the scientists out there, but I am not taking the chance when I
see what it can do in my family. "Bergenholtz
Family" <bergfam@dmv.com>
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The reason the question was posed was...at a support group meeting, I just
happened to mention I thought it odd that my autistic son did get Hep B...and my
5 other NT kids didn't. FOUR OTHER MOTHERS all responded by saying that the
same was true for them! I guess that was the first
time, in 5 years, I have found 5 parents agree on any one given thing!
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That is our experience as well. Basicly our first 2 kids didn't get Hep B because it wasn't
recommended in 1987 and 1989. They have no symptoms of autism whatsoever. Our third child who has autism received it at her first well baby check up at 9 days old, and then at 1 month and at 6 months, along with the rest of the recommended shots.
Joe Marciano CentreAv2C@Aol.com
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My NT daughter, who is 18 months older than my son, did not receive HepB.
Her brother, who has autism, did. He received his shots at 1 day, 2 months
(with DPT), and 13 months (with
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Yup , My older son didn't get Hep B and he is fine... My younger one did and you know the rest of the story.. Was it the only factor ? Maybe not, but I think he was damaged especially by Hep B.. kelly From: kc62765@aol.com
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Isaak was given the Hep B at 12 hours old. He's diagnosed autistic. Lukas was given the Hep B at 15 months and began to regress shortly thereafter. His diagnosis was autism as well. My third child, Ezekiel, is vaccine free and wonderfully typical!
Charlene Charlene Pagac <bluesclues@softhome.net>
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My son got hep-B vaccine at 1 day old. He could barely open his eyes and remained sensitive to sunlight after that. (He also developed a terrible case of chronic eczema and colic which never went away until age 2 and a half when he went GFCF.) I think he regressed a little after every
subsequent vaccine, particularly the chicken pox at age two.
"krs111" <krs111@telocity.com>
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I have found out that my son and his twin sister received DTP vaccines that had such a high number of reactions, that they were ordered no longer to be used. (Thank you Linda.)
The lot manufacturer and lot #s were
Number of adverse reactions: 228 101 ER visits... 3 life threatening 20 hospitalizations
2 disabled 20 unknown recoveries 8 no recoveries 6 deaths
My children received the 2M-31091
The other 4 DTP's they got had reactions of 37,44,87,60. As Linda commented, and I also wonder, It seems that it may be very important to gather information on the lot #.
Must have had high mercury in that one.
Mary Holcomb <gotojoshua1_9@yahoo.com>
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I have no insight into the problem of all of the kids who wake up in the morning or from naps screaming or crying uncontrollably or trembling, but when my son was small he would
wake up as a toddler SCREAMING inconsolably also.
When my son was an infant he would sometimes wake with his
Crystal "Crystal Sacco" <c.sacco@snet.net>
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From: fullarmor@aol.com
My name is
1996. We began his in-home
this day. He is now 6 years old. He was progressing beautifully -- with
additional help from
Kindergarten with a shadow. He received his boosters for Kindergarten May 5,
1999 and we entered into our second greatest nightmare. He screamed for the
entire summer -- all the way into November. He lost over 1 1/2 years worth
of hard-earned skills (including toileting, reading, etc)
We just got his hair analysis back. He was toxically high in aluminum, cadmium, lead,
nickel, tin and copper. He was dangerously low in magnesium, zinc, sodium,
iodine, phosporous and borderline in calcium and one other element (can't
remember which). The mercury was within reference range (4.0), but of course
IT'S THERE, it just didn't show up through his hair analysis. He has all the
other markers of mercury poisoning...and of course the behavioral symptoms.
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fullarmor@aol.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Poll
My son is 6 years old. He weighs 70 lbs. I am doing every 4 hours - 70mg DMSA only.
Doing night doses using DMSO as a carrier for transdermal application. Schedule 3 on / 4 off
No negative side-effects. Many positives reported from school by 4th round including increased speech, clearer speech, awareness of others, etc. At home, we are noticing increased
awareness and interaction with family. Now on 5th round.
Using minerals (Citramin II - 1X day), zinc and Vit C. No monitoring tests ordered yet.
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Since we moved immediately after my son's birth, our pediatrician was a 45-60
min ride and I believed he was trying to spare my wife the repeated long rides
by administering him 4 vaccines at each visit. This occurred 3-4 times. Lets
assume that 3 of the vaccines contained the max amount of thiomersal (25 ug/0.5
ml) and the fourth cotained the lesser amount (12 ug/0.5 ml) according to the
list on your site. Now he is autistic.
Ed decile_edward@chase.com
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My husband has gone oversees quite often, which meant immunizations galore.
I had a booster shot
after our marriage. We both have a mouthful of poisin, I was exposed to
malathion which contains mercury salts in my childhood and while carrying my
children with autism....you tell me? Then my kids have vaccines, one almost
died 11 days after, acted blind, unconsollable, shaking violentely,
convulsing. The other, classic gastro problems (I thought I was doing the
right thing by not giving her pertussis, the one we thought affected my
oldest). Great heh?
Kathy Blanco kblanco@mindspring.com
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My nephew, age 9, who has (high functioning) autism had an immediate reaction to the (2nd) DPT vaccine. He screamed inconsolably for several days and nights, became aphasic for a year (after having normally developing speech), lost social skills and receptive communication skills, developed hypersensitive hearing and some tactile issues, among other things. A book called A Shot in the Dark talks about the DPT vaccine and children who have had adverse reactions including several who developed autism after having developed normally until the DPT or a booster. I'm convinced my nephew's autism resulted from the DPT.
Linda
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From: "Gretchen Heinrich" <gheinrich@fuse.net>
Looking again at Alan's records. On his 6 month visit to the doctor he received the
following: poliovirus #3, DTP #3 , Hib #3 , Hep B #3
He had 9 vaccines containing thimerasol by the time he was 6 months
(counting these)
A month later he had a horrible respiratory virus and then came all
the antibiotics , ear infections, and autism.
I am amazed that doctor's are told to give this many shots at a time!
Gretchen
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My son's first adverse reaction was to the Hep B, Hib shots he got at 8 months. Getting
very sick after only 2 shots tells me that one or both of them are trouble.
Hib was also on the list of shots he got at 13.5 months which led to
more catastrophe than I will mention here - autism to be brief.
Catherine adamsgrl@netscape.net
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"Donna Carver" <sdcarv@bright.net>
I am a nurse and mommy to 3 children. My 5 yo is Autistic...after a recent DPT booster (until this happened I poo pooed the idea that vaccines and autism had a link) my son started screaming and screaming...(hours later) he regressed terribly. It wasn't until this booster that I investigated and found out that the vaccines had thimerisol. I am allergic to thimerisol.
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I had
issues with each vaccination but the
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I know that the first DPT that Kenny got in Dec. 1993 came from a bad lot.
Another little boy who is two weeks older also got that shot and also suffers
from autism. Here's what happened to Kenny: (This
was two weeks after he arrived from
Dec. 17: Took him to pediatrician for first time (6 1/2 months old) Doctor
remarked on what a big, beautiful, HEALTHY baby he was. (He had been born at 32
weeks gestation in
that day.
Dec. 23: He started wheezing. Took him back to doctor, they gave him a
breathing treatment, put him on ventolin, told me it looked like he had croup.
Dec. 23 (
helping him breathe were helping. He was gasping for breath, had a temp over 103.
He received a shot of epinephrine, and they sent us home.
Dec. 25: My mom noticed while she was holding him that his heart was racing.
We couldn't even count his pulse rate it was so fast. High fever. (Back to the hospital)
Dec. 27: Small pin-point rash began to appear on his body
Dec. 31: Rash had spread over him from head to toe. Took him back to the doctor. Doctor
had "never seen anything like it". Discovered he also had 2 ear infections.
Then came the
eggs, and had been told we'd have to wait for two
hours after the shot to make sure he didn't have an adverse reaction, because
the
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Urine Toxic Elements Test Results (
(per gram of creatinine)
Arsenic 71 (0 - 100) down from 120 one month before
Cadmium 1.4 (0 - 2) down from 2.6
Lead 5.3 (0 - 15) UP from 1.5
Mercury 3.3 (0 - 3) UP from 2
Nickel 3.8 ( 0 - 12) down from 5.1
Tin 1.6 (0 - 6) UP from 1.1
Tungsten .1 (0 - 23) down from .3
We are seeing wonderful progress after just a month of chelation.
We are finishing up a week of chelation with Kenny today. (Our 6th ON
cycle -- 11 weeks into treatment.) Here are some new accomplishments/changes:
1) Kenny will now wear mittens and sunglasses (and by wear, I mean, he
actually KEEPS them on!)
2) He continues to be very happy and focused. He's "tuned in" a much
larger percentage of the time than he has ever been before.
3) Both his speech therapist and occupational therapist remarked this
week on what a sense of pride he is taking in his accomplishments.
4) He is "picking up" skills faster. Seems to finally be making a real effort to imitate.
5) He is progressing nicely with his articulation. Today I asked him during therapy "What do you do with a cookie?" and he said "eat it!" (Pretty good for a kid who was pretty much non-verbal just a few weeks ago!)
Cindy
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My 7 yo son (born
he is more playful, more affectionate ...
Cindy (Cary, NC)
persistentC@bigfoot.com
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I wanted to post an update on Kenny's progress...
We are now on our 3rd cycle of phase II. (Protocol
information at the bottom of this post.)
I was pretty alarmed at the beginning of phase II, as I was observing a return of behaviors that we hadn't seen since before phase I. However, ONCE AGAIN, on the third cycle, just as we saw in phase I, there has been a significant change for the better. Kenny seems calmer again, and his articulation, which seemed to be deteriorating, has gotten much better. He is attempting lots of new words (remember, this is a child who was non-verbal before chelation) and they are actually understandable when he says them. I just finished doing one of his two daily 30-minute articulation drills with him, and was amazed at some of the sounds that came out.
Motor planning is also improving. He is actually putting his shoulder belt on in the car without help now. This is quite an accomplishment -- dealing with a retractable belt is really quite tough for a child with dyspraxia. Eye contact is still not as good as it had gotten. We are seeing a lot more covering of his eyes as if he is getting some sort of visual stimulation that is overwhelming to him.
We are also seeing a LOT of "rash" (for lack of a better term) on his face and bottom, and more eczema type problems on the rest of his body. His face is quite red on his cheeks and splotchy looking, and there are some well defined pimples that come and go usually in the span of a day.
We have started giving him Kava around
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Kenny received time-released DMSA with a 7 On/7 off protocol. He was 7 yrs, 2 months when we started at the beginning of August, 2000, and non-verbal. By Christmas (less than 5 months later), he had stopped stimming, had improved greatly in the area of sociability, and HE WAS
TALKING!! The process of detox was not always fun, but it certainly was effective.
Cindy (Cary, NC) persistentC@nc.rr.com http://www.rtphome.org/mariposa/
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Background chelation info:
Treating doctor: Dr. Amy Holmes Treatment began: Last week of July 2000
Age at time treatment began: 7 years, 2 months
Protocol Used:
Phase I:DMSA-SR (slow release) 100mg, 3 times a day, with 7 on / 7 off cycle
Phase II: Began January 2001 with 8 hour dosing on first cycle. Switched to 4 hour dosing due to negative side effects.
Ratio of DMSA:
Toxic Metals being excreted (as measured in urine by Doctors Data Inc.)
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Tin, Tungsten
Cindy (Cary, NC) persistentC@bigfoot.com
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A hot lot is a batch of vaccine that has been associated with large numbers of reports including hospitalizations, injuries and deaths.
My son got the chicken pox from his older brother when he was 8 months old..He got his 6 month immunizations just about a week before his brother's chicken pox. So he had Hib (with mercury), DTP (with more mercury), OPV, and chicken pox exposure all at the same time. Actually it was at that point that his immune system went haywire. After that he was allergic to EVERYTHING. All of the foods that he had ever eaten. Everything in the air.
For the next two years he was sick constantly. Other than constant sickness, he
developed normally.
Then he got a hot lot DTaP at 4 years old and his problems started.
After the shot, he regressed and was diagnosed with atypical autism two
months later. The DPT vaccine that he got in August 1995 was listed in
the CURRENT DPT VACCINE "
their newsletter in March 1995. My son was given a known (if only to
the
In hair, my son on the spectrum was high for tin, lead, arsenic, silver, aluminum,
cadmium, and titanium. The only two toxic elements tested that were not high were
mercury and antimony. His first urine toxic from DD was high for arsenic, mercury,
and tin. It also showed significant amounts of lead, cadmium, and nickel. The
arsenic is now within the reference range, but the tin and mercury at last testing
were still above the rr. My other son's hair analysis showed high aluminum,
antimony, uranium, silver, arsenic, and titanium. He is also borderline for lead and
tin. It also showed overall impaired mineral transport with many highs and lows.
His zinc level is 88 (rr 100-190), his copper level is 38 (rr 8-16), and his Zn/Cu
ratio is 2.34 (rr 4-20). Colin and Evan are high copper low zinc kids.
Evan has/had eye problems, growth problems, muscle weakness, fatigue, social
avoidance, irritability, recurrent infections, giardia, and other problems that are
common in kids with ASDs. All of his problems have gotten better esp. muscle
weakness, irritability, and fatigue. Now most people would never suspect that he has
autism. He is now talkative and friendly, but it will take more time to catch-up on
all of the subtle social skills that the other kids have mastered from the ages of 4
to 9. My son is 9 and he regressed at 4. He was diagnosed with atypical autism.
My son's tin was 180 (0-6). He also has frequent headaches and fatigue
(both are much better after 4 months of chelation). He also has really started
growing--he gained 6 pounds since the end of March. Prior to zinc supplements and
chelation it took him over two and a half years to gain 6 pounds.
Allison Plant <aplant@gte.net>
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I've just looked into my son's medical records from age 1 month to 36
months. I also just received the "Master list of lot numbers" from
the DPT vaccine Report by VAERS. Here are the comparisons regarding my son,
Adam (DOB:
I made a timeline of all of his doctor visits from 1 month to 24 months. Everytime he had vaccinations (sometimes as many as 4 in 1 visit) he would soon thereafter have a terrible ear infection and receive amoxil, - or 1 time, ceclor or pediazole) . By the time he was 18 months, he had received amoxil 8 times.
I also looked up his DPT vaccinations on the charts.
Also, his DPT at 18 months, by Connaught Labs: had 3 deaths reported and the list goes on to summarize that Connaught Labs has the most deaths and most adverse events connected to their DPT type vaccinations! (Is this why my son regressed into autism at 19 months, stopping speech, throwing terrible tantrums and pulling away from everyone???) I also tried to correlate his symptoms with mercury toxicity symptoms: seeing difficulty with sucking at 3 months (1 month after his DPT of 2 months), an aversion to being held by strangers at 9 months, this sound sensitivity at 11 months and a very bad diaper rash at 18 months. Basically, after 18 months, almost all the symptoms of mercury toxicity (per Bernard's report) came out getting worse from 2-4. For your information, VAERS shows that 4 lots in particular are very bad:
OC-21045 given 1986 to 1992 with 13 deaths
2A-41127 given 1992 - 1993 with 11 deaths
2E-41060 given 1992 - 1994 with 12 deaths
2M-31091 given 92 - 93 with 6 deaths
Of course these lots, too, have many many "events" reported by parents. Just what have the manufactures done to followup on what was wrong with these lots that caused so many adverse effects on kids? Have they checked the autistic and PDD NOS kids of Brick to determine which lots they received????? I'm sure they haven't. Government officials did not even take a blood sample from the Brick children. How about a DDI hair elements test on the Brick children. Just what would they find??? Why aren't the organizations that have brain tissue samples from autistic children testing for Mercury toxicity in these samples????
Linda Aly fata@gte.net
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I think that the lot numbers of various vaccines may contain different
amounts of thimerisol. My belief has stemmed from the fact that I know two
other boys born at the same hospital during the same week who are also
diagnosed with PDD-NOS. My son and my friends' son
(both born
share 5 of the same lot numbers. We have been trying to get the FDA's
attention about this but no luck so far. MLBarbera@aol.com
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My son was completely set back by
previous shots .
correlated in the downslide at the 12 month mark.
. kelly kc62765@aol.com
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My son and another little boy in our town both received the same hot lot on one of the DPTs. They both suffer from autism. The kids are two weeks apart in age.
Cindy (Cary, NC) persistentC@nc.rr.com
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I believe mercury is the source of our son's autism issues. I had
put in my mouth 1 year prior to getting pregnant with our son, and already had lots. After he was born, I nursed for afew months, then he began getting vaccinations. he received all the
childhood vaccinations. He is not a child who regressed. He developed normally until speech should have appeared, but it did not. He is diagnosed as speech delayed and we are currenly on the gfcf diet, using Dr. Amy's supplements and just started chelating per her protocol. I firmly believe that he was predisposed prior to getting the vaccinations by the mercury he got in utero.
Robbin
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We have an 8 year old son that we are currently chelating, supplementing, and doing the GFCF diet with. We have seen great improvement in his functioning, still a ways to go, but nonetheless improvement! Example--just this weekend, in Boyscouts, at the Pinewood Derby, our son would have sat with his ears covered when the cheers began. (Last year he did just that) This time, he was involved in the cheering, hands held high in the air, yelling at the top of his lungs! We were thrilled!!! We have noticed improvement at school, socially, physically, in every realm! Robbin rwbridger@aol.com
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HealthTalk999@aol.com
. Zack was exposed to mercury before he was born when my wife was exposed at work in a dental office. Neither he nor she has fillings and he didn't have vaccinations. We did not know
about mercury toxicity 5 years ago unfortunately. We were told Zack was
autistic when he was 2. We looked into alot of different treatments but when
I told an old friend of mine who is a doctor he offered to help. His way of
looking at detox is a little different but he says that the mercury is inside
the cell and you have to coax it out slowly or we could hurt Zack. So he
started with electrolytes. we started with that slowly adding it to his food and
then added these trace minerals. After about a month he added this special
fat because he says that the mercury and fats are in the cell together. . The results have been really something. About 2 weeks into the therapy Zack had a big jump in speech and
communication. We are still working with the protocol the doc set up and are
in the second month of treatment. Ben
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My daughter's hair test was done by
were looking at delays, but this was pre-PDD Dx and it was the first time we
cut her hair. Result : Mercury 5.6 with a reference range of 0-2.
-Ed
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> I just got Joshua's Hair annalysis back and he's like a walking toxic
> waste dump. I was thinking some pretty violent thoughts. However, I had
> to remind myself that most of my energy should be going into helping
> Joshua to get well. If (and hopefully WHEN) he recovers, you can bet
>
> humble pie. He's already improving and we haven't even started chelation
> yet.
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Maria Carlshamre <maria.carlshamre@stockholm.mail.telia.com>
]
The vaccines said not to contain thimerosal do have it anyway, even the
I've just got it confirmed from SmithKline-Beecham, Pasteur-Merieux, Merck, and the rest of them.
....they had lied us all in the face... they had been putting this into our children, pretending not to......
.....and I actually just started crying.......
.....and I looked at Erik who's had a rough time again in pain and I just couldn't help it.
Please Oh God what have they done to my boy? To our children? What have they done?
And they have done it again and again and again...... It has been confirmed
that Erik is particularly sensitive to thimerosal. And I can only start to imagine
the scope of this tragedy - most definitely the largest iatrogenic scandal in
the history of mankind...... and all the children getting so much more than
traces of mercury.......
The fight has just begun and now I am utterly convinced,
We will prevail. regards Maria
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We are in the same boat. I just got back results on my daughter and she is
High for Aluminum, Lead, Mercury, Boron and Rubidium. She is deficient in
Calcium and Strontium. I just got back from my
blood for a whole blood(not serum)level for Lead, because the little circle
is only half shaded it could be an external contamination. I will have a phone consult
with him when the results come back and let you know what we will be doing.
Lisa Lelms3@aol.com
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I have a 4 year old son with autism. His last round of vaccines was when he
was 16 months old. All in one visit he received the
Kim Murphy
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I recently saw a 12 year- old autistic child. His hair test from Great Smokies arrived
> before he did. The mercury was very, very high as were lead and cadmium. I was thinking that this child was in such bad shape that he would probably arrive on a stretcher. Then I looked at the date of collection. His mother had sent in his baby hair. It broke my heart. Amy Holmes
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Hello Patricia: Homeopathy and detox are not mutually exclusive. Using
drainage remedies and constitutionals work very well with the gentle detox
of DMSA/natural glutathione precursors/mineral rebalancing/diet
management... These are the tools of a more natural/patient directed
detox...which after 22
years of experience shows me that works..
It doesn't mean by any means that these protocols cannot blend.....
Dr. Deb.
Dr. Deborah Baker
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I have had the great privilege of having parents share their
children's medical records with me for the past 2-1/2 years. My files
are filled with lab data on these children, and I have to say with
only one or two exceptions (and those being children that were not
vaccinated) these children have
cysteine and glutathione. This is also true of my own son, and his
prior physician informed me at the time we got my son's results that
he sees this in 90% of his autistic patients.
"Ricci " <Wutsername@aol.com>
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From: njpearce@dedset.net.au
Subject: Why would detox be unsuccessful?
I`m new to this list. My 14 year old daughter who has Autism Spectrum
Disorder and seizures was found to have extremely high levels of
mercury through hair analysis from Great Smokies Diagnostic
Laboratory. Despite 12 months of detox comprising of 2 DMPS
injections and 2 courses of DMSA her mercury levels show no change,
in a follow up hair analysis.
Norelle Pearce.
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30 mcg thimerosal mercury in RhoGAM vs. 12.5 from hep.B. RhoGAM is given to mother's who are RH negative.
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The J&J product called RhoGam contains 60 mcg of thimerosal and 30mcg of ethyl mercury. .
I got 3 of these injections, 2 during my pregnany at 14 and 28 weeks and 1 given 12 hrs after delivery while breast feeding. Then my son got 62.5mcg at 2 months and at routine intervals up to a max total of 237.5 the first 18 months of life from vaccines. Its a wonder he didn't turn into a thermometer. He now has autism.
Lyn ps I have more case histories at:
http://tlredwood.home.mindspring.com
Thanks Lyn, I think I got two of these shots one before delivery and one after but it may have been three. I will share this info with my friend who also received these
shots and has an autistic child. In the back of her mind she always believed
that the shots may have been a causitive factor. There are just too many
people out there with autistic children who received these shots for it to be
mere coincidence. Gaylen
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If you had any episodes of bleeding during the pregnancy or any invasive
procedures like amnio or
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Just prior to conception of my third child I received an additional
shot (was informed that I was no longer immune). I then received three
RhoGam shots; one in the first trimester, one in the second trimester and one
after birth. Just prior to delivery I developed Bstrep and my daughter was born with a
103 degree fever. She was given IV antibiotics immediately. While on the
antibiotics she was given her Hib shot.
My youngest has been diagnosed with sever PDD nos, sever language delay
(nonverbal), anxiety disorder, and sever mental retardation. She did not
have a fighting chance. Lisa Smith, Philadlephia
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From: "Lyn Redwood" <autism-mercury@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: ADD versis autism
Something I have found interesting is that another parent at my sons school was telling me about her sons ADD to which I
told her of my son's PDD and mercury toxicity. She had a sample of her son's
baby hair and sent it off for testing. She also got his vaccine history. He is
12 and had not received
to mercury was 1/3rd my sons exposure. His hair analysis was almost identical to my son's but at 1/3rd the levels of mercury and aluminum. I do believe it is just a continum with ADD being a lesser exposure than PDD in a susceptable infant. Note too that both are more prevalent in boys, just like mercury toxicity.
Lyn "Lyn Redwood" <autism-mercury@mindspring.com> Moderator- autism list
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Date:
From: Howard D Bogert <howard78@juno.com>
> I just got my son's hair analysis results and his urine challenge test
> results back.
> His hair showed elevated (above 68th %) on aluminum, arsenic and tin, and
> above 95th% on antimony.
> His essentials were below 16th% on manganese and strontium, above 84% on
> rubidium and zirconium and above 97.5% on sodium and potassium.
>
> His 24 hr urine was from a 50 mg DMSA, 20 mg
> low levels of quite a few nasties, the most notable being Nickel 14 ug/gm
> creatinine (ref 0-12). Only a little mercury, .4 ug/gm crea. (ref 0-3)
> and a little lead. 1.1 ug (ref 0-15) showed up.
>
We are one month into chelating ours (also 6 weeks into TF). Our boy
has been on an 'upswing' for about 3 weeks now.
I can tell you we've been chelating our 3 yr 9 mo. old for 5 cycles now
with 50 mg DMSA/day broken into 4 doses (we dissolve it in distilled
water and mix into his juice) with 3 days on DMSA, and 4 days off. We
have lots of antioxidants going, milk thistle and on off days lots of
minerals. Our son has shown no signs of hardship at all and we believe
we are seeing gains literally with each day of chelation! Our son weighs
42 lbs. Our first round I did at just 25 mg/day to make sure he didn't
have any wierd reactions. I'm probably going to move him up to 60 or 65
mg. The younger you get that 'caca' out of your boy's brain and body, the
better his recovery potential! My suggestion is to just start out at a real
low dose and observe himcarefully!
I've seen discussion from or case studies from close to 20 cases and everyone's reporting
improvement almost immediately.
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We've been chelating for about three months now and are seeing little
gains with pretty much each cycle! One non-behavioral area that I think
we're seeing most progress is in his digestion. His stools are firmer, darker
and more digested...it seems.
Chris
We've been chelating our 43 lb almost-4 yr old for about 7 weeks with
oral DMSA and LA and he's doing fine. Also it looks like we are on a
new, faster developmental curve already! We started out at a very
conservative dose- just 25 mg DMSA/day and when he didn't do anything
weird, we moved up to 50 and are now at about 70 mg/day and about 40
mg/day of LA. We give the DMSA in 5 divided doses and the LA in 2 (I
know Andy...I'm thinking about increasing it...everythings so darn
controversial- it's very scary as a parent ...)
If you start out really conservatively, do the right supportive
supplementation and observe him carefully, you'll probably be just fine!
Howard D Bogert <howard78@juno.com>
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My daughter has been chelating since Nov.'00. We took her off the
diet May the 5th. By direction of DAN doctor, (Alexis stools are
normal now)and she has done Great. Nothing. It has been a month and
no behaviors, No runny nose, no regression. I am excited. Shopping is
actually fun now. We had been on the diet since '99, and she did lots
better on the diet, but with slip=ups she would always get a runny
nose, become giddy and increase behaviors. I believe that her gut is
healed.
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From: "sammm" <touristk@voicenet.com>
I just receivedmy child's (male age 3) hair analysis and I have a few questions. But first
here are some figures....
Toxic elements
aluminum 14.8 range 0-9
antimony 0.541 range 0-0.03
arsenic 0.115 range 0-0.1
cadmium 0.154 range 0-0.15
lead 2.44 range 0-0.5
mercury 0.07 range 0-1
thallium 0.0004 range 0-0.001
tin 0.548 range 0-0.28
nutritional elements
molybdenum 0.127 range0.0300.096
boron 5.21 range 0.15-3
rubidium 0.396 range 0.005-0.04
iodine 2.91 range 0.35-2.5
additional elements
sodium 375 range 8-60
potassium 584.8 range 0.4-30
He tested low in calcium, magnesium, and zinc.
Also, his mercury was low, could this be incorrect in a hair analysis? I
worry about this mainly because he received his hepB vaccine a few hours
after he born at 34 weeks and low birthrate(4.4 lbs). To think they told my
husband he needed this vaccine because there is no cure of hepB, and would
prevent a lifelong disease. Well, so is his autism!
His regression started about one month after mmr.
thanks, Susan K
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Curty's hair test for mercury wasn't very high and doesn't show as high as the other metals and does not even come close to corresponding with what is coming out of him. We both showed the significantly altered essential nutrients you mentioned on earlier testing and are now waiting on new hair test results.
The first few urine test for my son and I didn't show all that high either but his latest ones have been off the chart for mercury and arsenic. If it shows anything, I think it's worth pursuing.
Gaylen SHAKYES@aol.com
By the way, we're making progress --
Mercury is down to 17 ug/g (from 29 last time)
Arsenic is at 110 ug/g (slightly down from last time's 140)
Aluminum is at 13 ug/g (down from 27)
Nickel showed up again after several months of nothing -- now at 6.4 ug/g
With a smattering of other stuff not too high.
We're going to do another hair analysis as soon as his hair grows enough so
it will be interesting to see how it will compare
to the others.
ince we started DMSA, his overall sensory sensativities have significantly
decreased so that he is no longer tactile-defensive for the most part, can
now handle and enjoy being in crowds, his language has improved greatly, his
visual abilities are more consistent and greatly improved (he used to have
blind spots and tracking problems), his focus has increased by leaps and
bounds and his auditory processing has improved. He also began enjoying trying new
things and experiencing life more fully. Before, it often took weeks or
months and alot of encouragement to get him to try new things. He's also
enjoying getting out of the house and enjoying events and parties. He was
practically agoraphobic before treatment and could not handle even going to
the grocery store.
Chelation has been big help in the gastrointestinal area. Gone from severe cramps, bloody stool
to mostly normal. More well digested output too :).
Since we started the IV DMPS six months ago, his motor function has really
improved -- his writing going from huge scrawls to mostly normal-sized,
readable printing, finally being able to do cross pattern, improved bilateral
skills, much more muscle strength and his finger dexterity is improved. His
visual function also took a huge leap forward last month but still wavers
some. His auditory processing increased two full year levels but is still
inconsistent on some days. He's struggling to keep his convergence right now
but his tracking is great. His conversational skills have grown with him now
bombarding me with questions. His ability to read and discuss paragraphs is
greatly improved and he's now able to solve math story problems very well
(totally unable to do so before).
Provocative Urine Tests
Chelator DMPS DMPS DMPS DMPS
4/00 3/00 2/00 12/99
Aluminum 13 <dl 17 8.4
Antimony <dl .2 .7 .1
Arsenic 110 240 130 150
Cadmium 1.3 1.1 1 .6
Lead .1 1.9 11 1.2
Mercury 17 31 23 27
Nickel 6.4 8.5 6.9 7.2
HAIR ANALYSIS
6/99 5/98 9/97
Aluminum 18.4 19 5
Antimony 0.05 0.235 0.062
Arsenic 0.104 0.242 0.418
Cadmium 0.045 0.388 0.149
Lead 1.81 3.9 1.4
Mercury 0.83 0.59 0.56
Nickel 0.12 0.47 0.19
Tin 0.13 1.0 0.6
Gaylen
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Curtis started DMSA when he was 6. At the time, hair tests showed elevations
in all of the toxic metals especially lead, arsenic and mercury. The first
doc (Dr. Gerald Ross from the
150mg two times a day for 21 days. I was a basket case during that time
(could barely sleep) but he did relatively well with it. We saw an
alternating of amazingly wonderful days with alot of worsening of
autistic-like symptoms, hyperactivity, tantrumming, increased frustration,
cloudy headedness and mild violent behavior (strange for my son but the doc
had said he was amazed that we didn't have more violence before with the
amounts of lead showing in his hair test). About halfway through and
afterwards, he made a huge leap in progress in all areas. After a few months
rest, he did one more 21-day round under Dr. Ross' direction and then we
switched to our current doctor (Dr. Glenn Hansen,
in
recommended a more conservative approach -- only 100mg twice a day 3 days on,
11 days off. We did four rounds of that with a month or so between each.
This protocol was much easier on Curtis. He did extraordinarily well when on
the DMSA, then did well for about 5-7 days then would experience a worsening
of symptoms as more metals were dumped into his blood stream. On the last
round, we did it 3 days on, 5 days off for that reason. Even though he'd
have a worsening of symptoms, it has always been better than when we started
so he's been constantly improving. Overall the experience with the DMSA was
positive but the urine tests didn't show all that much coming out. However,
his health has improved greatly as well as his cognitive skills,
hyperactivity, memory, focus, and language. We've also seen a big decrease
in his fearfulness and need for sameness. If we ever decide to go back do
DMSA (he's now doing DMPS), I plan to talk to the doc about doing a lower
dosage, spread out more during the day for longer periods of time and less
break time between medicine. Overall, it's been a very positive experience
and extraordinarily helpful for him.
Gaylen
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From: SHAKYES@aol.com
Without a doubt, the mercury and other toxic metals chelated from my son have
led to an extremely dramatic amount of progress developmentally, socially,
academically, and physically. We have seen gains each time we've done a
round of chelation. His last three evaluations placed him outside the
autistic spectrum however, he does still struggle with alot of autistic-type
challenges most of which are strongly tied to
metals toxicity.
He did not have any fillings in his teeth but I did and had what was most
likely several botched filling replacements a few years before getting pregnant.
Gaylen
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Just got back from visiting relatives who were overwhelmed at how much Curtis
has grown and progressed over the past year. Amazing how much a body can
catch up when it's not battling poison and digesting food :). He is catching
up radically now -- outgrowing clothes almost daily and getting heavier all the time.
Gaylen
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Wed,
My 3 year old son's hair analysis showed very high levels of lead, aluminum,
arsenic and antimony. His Mercury was high, and his tin and titanium were
moderate. Our DAN dr. started us on this chelation
process.
My three yr old son is on his second round of the chelation therapy with DMSA.... we are seeing improvements in social interaction! He is seeking his brothers out to jump on the trampoline with him- where as before, he was content to be alone. Also, tonight a children's group from our church came to bring him a 'toy basket' just to let us know we were in their prayers...(very sweet gesture) and there was about 20 kids 8 and under in our living room... normally he would be overstimulated and run out of the room. But tonight, he smiled, looked at several of them and sat on the couch! Yeahhh!!!! He tried to interact with them..a little. Anyway, if we are seeing this so early in his therapy, I can't wait to see him in six months!!! Maranie
. We started Chelation with Dr. Holmes on June
10th, using dmsa 100mg every four hours: 7 days on,
and 7 days off. We did this for about three rounds, then
she changed us to the three day on, four day off schedule. During both periods
my son improved greatly- better eye contact, more appropriate play, less stimming. He seemed to be trying to speak more than ever.( although it was and still is very hard to understand!)
After his second urine test revealed that his levels of mercury were less than
20 %, then we added the Lipoic acid. He is on a
dosage of 25 mg ala, and 25 mg dmsa every four hours : three days on, and four days off. After his first
round with the lipoic acid added, (
and a total of seven dmsa alone rounds) he
spontaneously, on his own, Potty trained himself. I had been trying since he
turned three - off and on with absolutely no response. He would go and sit on
the potty, and if he happened to urinate, then we were lucky. But he never got
it... Until that round of chelation.
He has only had a few accidents since then, and is totally potty trained and
going by himself!! He also is playing with our animals, picking them up and
hugging, petting them ( before he never even looked at
them.). Whereas before chelation , he ignored them. The changes are small and subtle, but oh , so beautiful!!! His receptive language is
Yes, the chelation is tough, both with and without the Lipoic Acid. My son actually does better when he's "on" the medicine, than the days he's off!! He gets hyper and does seem to regress a little from time to time, but we always regain . It seems to be a three step forward, two step back kind of process, but knowing Amy Holmes as I do, and knowing that she used this on her own child,( who a year and a half ago was completely non verbal- but who is speaking in sentences now, and can hold a conversation) is all the info I need! Maranie
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My son was perfectly 'normal' , met all milestones at age 2, and somewhere between two and two and a half, we lost him. He was diagnosed at age 3. We were lucky/ blessed and
found Dr. Holmes when he was three and a half, and it was the best thing that could have happened. Dean is a different person than he was at this time last year. We have been chelating for 11 months and wow , what a difference!! We still have a ways to go, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!! I have a friend who's daughter is five and she is doing great with chelation too. I think with the older kids, it just takes longer to get the metals out.
"Maranie Adams" <maranie@teleclipse.net>
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From: GABelle53@aol.com
I am new to this list and have an autistic 3.5 yr old. His lead level was recently measured at 97.7 and he showed up low in zinc and Omega 3 and 6 oils. I appreciate your response on the chelating of lead using DMSA. Our Dr. had us on Vit.C Ascorbate..
Melissa Hooks
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My son also has high Antimony in hair and blood as well as other heavy
metals. Beth Mortl
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From: "Sylvia Pimentel" <sylviapimentel@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Autism-Mercury@egroups.com
To: Autism-Mercury@egroups.com
I just got the results from my 2 year olds hair analysis from Great Smokies.
Mercury was in normal range, which I'm not surprised since his last
vaccination was
0-0.03, also high in Arsenic and Lead. He was also very low in calcium, zinc, and strontium, although he gets plenty of calcium and zinc in his diet.
Our house is only 3 years old.
Thanks,Sylvia
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MMous12905@aol.com writes:
<< She seems to do very well with high-sulpher foods, such as eggs and
broccoli. She did horrible with
A couple of years ago, to improve her language, we gave her frequent baths
in Epsom salt. We knew she needed a bath when her language started to slur.
Within a couple of minutes in the tub, she was chatting away in a clear
voice. The improved language was permanent.
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We are chelating our autistic daughter.
Although it is too early to make any claims, the use of LA & DMSA along with
a Mercury Detox product
from
into our second trial) proving useful for our daughter!
we are using LA now on a continuous 3 - 4 hour basis along with DMSA (25
mg of each in a drink mix). We began this protocol on July 2nd. We believe that we
are seeing several noteable things but this is really to early to make many
But she is also showing some generative language. Good performance on
phonics work. At camp they said she was more interactive in playing frisbee
today. Little things may be coming in good. I actually think that she may
be making some jokes, regarding to animal names which she tends to talk alot
about. She mixes animals which may come from watching catdog on television.
We are getting references to things like monkeycow! Again it is too early to
tell, but she may one day usher in the reemergence of vaudeville! This weekend she impressed us with her ability to spell, and was generally quite enjoyable to be around.
Joe Marciano
The doctor (with whom we may do alergy testing and / or bioneurofeedback in
the fall) is our second opinion on chelation. She told us tonight that
given everything she sees and understands regarding our daughter's tests and
clinical picture, she does not consider her autistic, but has listed her
diagnosis as mercury poisoned, and having vaccine induced encephalitis
This doctor had done an eeg for the purpose of generating a brain map to do bioneurofeedback, and feels that the lack of certain patterns which she says are missing, show an overall brain disorder that is consistent with mercury poisoning...
Joe Marciano
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decelie_edward@chase.com writes:
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I will give a little background on my son's history first. Evan was born in August
of 1991. At eight months of age he was exposed to chicken pox less than a week
after vaccinations with Hib, DPT, and OPV. After that he developed severe allergies
and was constantly sick with ear infections and diarrhea. He developed normally
until 4 years of age when he got his booster DTaP and just two weeks after roseola
(HHV6). The lot that he received is on the NVICs
hot lot list.
He lost muscle strength and tone, appeared deaf at times, was very sensitive to
light,
and although he never quit talking he rarely used language to communicate. He was
diagnosed with atypical autism two months later. He improved significantly
with a gf/cf diet. He has high titers to HHV6 and varicella. He has low
B-lymphocytes and low suppressor Tcells.
His growth dropped off and gradually over the next two years he developed muscle
and eye issues. His handwriting deteriorated to the point that it was barely
legible.
His EEG showed generalized generalized epileptiform abnormality. It was beginning
to look like he might have mitochondrial
dysfunction.
High doses of zinc helped him to grow again and tons of antioxidants and
B-vitamins helped to restore a more normal energy level. Evan has finished five
rounds of chelation. His urine testing during the therapeutic trial of DMSA
yielded several interesting tidbits: in addition to elevated mercury Evan also
has very high levels of tin and some significant amounts of arsenic & lead.
His urine creatinine was low both pre and post and his urine pH was 8.0.
Overall I am seeing great improvements esp. in apparent
He has more energy and more stamina. He is actually choosing to play
outside even in the
School started 2 1/2 weeks ago and we have gotten tons of
positive feedback. Evan is much more social and happy. He also is
using figures of speech with much more ease. His conversations seem
much more typical. He has outgrown all of his clothes and his muscle tone
is greatly improved. He can now kneeboard like a real pro (an amazing feat for
an 8 year old who just "graduated" from PT in the Spring). His formal strength
testing has shown good gains in hand strength. He no longer has trouble
maintaining his blood sugar and energy level. He is not eating such huge amounts
of food, and he is gaining weight.
Allison Plant aplant@gte.net
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It is very true that many autistics feature low zinc levels when measured in
RBCs or hair, while serum or plasma zinc may not show the zinc deficiency.
However, do not supplement zinc with meals in autistics that are of the
DPPIV (high casomorphin) type. Do supplement zinc, if it is measured to be low,
in the evening or away from meals. DPPIV is different from aminopeptidases and
carboxypeptidase. DPPIV is strongly inhibited by zinc. Puschel et al. also
studied this and measured the % remaining activity as a function of zinc
chloride concentration: 1.0 mM (0%), 0.1 mM (12%), 0.01 mM (42%), 0.001 mM
(89%). So, while zinc helps digestive peptidase function in general, and is
beneficial for many autistics, you should get much better results if it is
given away from meals."
Jon Pangborn >> Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab
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Test-wise, I haven't done a whole lot - just allergy testing, blood work, the fatty acids blood test, Great Smokies CDSA (parasites,bacteria, little good bacteria), Hair analysis (many toxic metals) and post-challenge urinalysis. She had a sleep EEG (OK). She gets individual minerals based on a taste test. I can't think of anything else right now. I probably need to do more. I just
sent her hair off to a woman with a bioenergetic machine, so we'll see what that yields.
I think if you address allergies and leaky gut, and metals, you're on the
right track. The better shape they are in, the more therapy helps.
Mary K. nmkramer@enteract.com
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We're also just about 5 weeks into chelation with DMSA. I have not seen
any signs of fever. We are giving 50 mg/day, 3 days on, 4 days off
divided into 4 doses. My boy weighs about 42 lbs. We also give a little
lipoic acid, N-acetyl cysteine, anti-oxidants and milk thistle. I think
I'm going to increase my amount of DMSA a little
Chris howard78@juno.com
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The antimony is something we are seeing alot of in children with autism. As
you know its a flame retardant in PJ's and mattresses. I had a conversation
today with Bob Smith at Great Smokies who called to report on an elevated
antimony level in one of my studies. He recommended Methionine and reduced
glutathione for treatment of antimony. Dr Quig suggest magnesium and Malic
acid for aluminum. Any suggestions from yhe Drs on the list?
Lyn
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> > Another abnormality has surfaced that may be related to all the gut problems
> > our children suffer. My son's B12 levels last fall were sky high, 1928.2
> > with a reference of 157 to 1059 as normal. He also had elevated folate 15.3
> > with ref 5.3 to 14.2. Cholesterol 117 with norm 140 to 200. Macrocytic
> > platelets on
> > only concern is with low levels". But, this is too unusual to find in 3 of
> > our children. Could this be from oversupplementation or what?
Lyn
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From: "Lyn Redwood" <autism-mercury@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: re: tests for solvents, etc.
AAL Labs
They can test for about any environmental toxin you want. Their panels are
the best bet. They have ones for organophosphates, pesticides, solvents,
PCB's, etc.
If you have a health care provider who is interested, have them call
Lyn
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Our son (not quite 2.5) came up very high (1.28 with a normal range
of 0-.5)for lead by hair elemental analysis and high normal (.78 out
of a max of .9) from blood (Doctor's data). Mercury was within limits on both. Other significantly "high" were antimony,aluminum, molybedenum and tin.
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We just got our first urine toxic elements test results back (after 12 rounds
of stage I chelation):
tin 1100 (reference range 0 - 6)!!!!!!!!!!!! (this is the highest level of
tin Dr. Holmes said she's ever seen!)
aluminum 60 (ref range 0 - 35)
nickel 20 (ref range 0 - 12)
mercury 3 (ref range 0 - 3)
I'm sooooo excited!!! We haven't seen much progress yet, so having a "hard
report" that says something is coming out reenergizes us. Per Dr. Holmes,
we're going to do a couple more rounds on stage I, retest, then see if the
mercury has come down. As an aside, our daughter Jensen (just turned 3,
autistic, hypotonic) has been GFCF since May 2000.
Jolene in KC Jim Jolene & Jensen HALLAM <jhallam@usa.net>
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We are currently going through chelation therapy on our 3.7 yr old son. He just finished his third round of 3days 'on' and 11 days 'off' using DMSA. The first round produced hyperactivity and more stimming.. after which he had seemingly better social skills, and better eye contact. The second round, he was totally out of it! He acted stoned or something.. it was pretty funny, actually.. looking back. But he still showed improvements afterward. This third round he did basically the same things as with the first... more stimming, and HYPER! The improvements he has made have been small, but definitely detectable. Good luck!
Maranie
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"Prokofiew" <momo4a@earthlink.net>
I obtained my son's vaccinations records, along with manufacture and lot
number. Anyone can order the list off of the site http://www.909shot.com/hotlots.htm.
My son was given three DPT shots and the office did not record the number of
one of them. Two were on the Vaccine Adverse Response "
Lederle #366949 DTPH(DPT
32 reports of reactions
12 emergency room visits
3 Life threating
2 hopitalized
1 no recov(don't know what that means,autism?)
2 died
Lederle #372932 DTPH(DPT
37 reports of reactions
16 emergency room visits
2 Life threatening
7 hopitalized
1 no recov(don't know what that means)
1 died
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After these when my sweet son got the
"Prokofiew" <momo4a@earthlink.net>
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. This is what our doctor ordered: DMSA caps. 300mg. He takes 1 cap. three times aday for 5 days. During the last 24 hours we collect a 24 hour urine. I then give him 11-14 days off and we start again. We've done this 3 times so far. The first and third times with huge gains on my sons part. We are finding gobs of stuff coming out. Mercury most of all. Does mercury chelation help??? I can say without any doubt what so ever that chelation is helping my 12 y.o. son. we are seeing improvements each time we chelate. we have chelated about 6 times now. What we are seeing: better attention, more speech (more willing to talk and using short sentences and opposed to one word), hyperactivity definately has decreased.
Hope this helps. Carole Lulu1958@aol.com
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I saw no change in my son (except on paper, test results) until I started chelating. I
was crazy to put it off as long as I did. My son is
very far from normal, but the changes continue to amaze all of us. He is older
and there is by now permanent damage, but the chelating is making a big
difference for him. now with DMSA we are seeing
another terrific spurt!!!!!!!
Pretty cool isn't it? We have just completed 7 rounds of DMSA on my 12 y.o.
son. the change in him is dramatic.........another happy Mommy. Carole
Carole Lulu1958@aol.com
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From: CentreAv2C@Aol.com
We have been attempting to remove mercury from our daughter Brianna who is 7
years old (and has no fillings) for about 1 year now, and we have had very
significant results. Including our school district's recognition of her
improvements!
Let me give you some background, as I would encourage anyone who suspects
mercury poisoning to seek professional help, and get as involved as possible,
because our experience has been that you will not
get help unless you seek it out forcefully!
Recently, during her annual school testing, which was also her tri-annual
evaluation she tested well in most areas except for math. Also, the school
psychologist was the most impressed by her ability to draw pictures of
answers even when she didn't comply with the testing guidelines, and was
therefore scored low. Most of these areas she was considered untestable in
the year before. Because of this she will be in a somewhat higher
functioning (more verbal) but still self contained
3rd grade classroom next year.
We haven't fully compiled her improvements which we note daily, but she is
much more communicative now, and we have great hope for continued success.
Off the top opf my head, here are a few noted improvements during the past
year. She will answer yes / no questions, such as do you need to go to the
bathroom accurately (although she will still have accidents if she is not
asked and taken to the toilet). Typically, she no longer runs away when
outdoors. Tantrums have greatly been reduced as well. We think that this is
largely due to her ability to express herself, and we may now hear her say
things like "Radio off " when we are driving. She also has taken to singing.
when tested, Brianna did not show high mercury in her urine, blood or hair which was a recent sample. We were fortunate enough to have found a Doctor to do chelation who did not let the
test results diminish his support for the treatments. Instead he interpreted the results correctly to mean that she did not have a recent or ongoing exposure to mercury, which was a good thing. In retrospect, she did show the characteristic imbalance of several substances very high and very low in the hair test.
Brianna received the now considered unfortunate pattern of infant and toddler
vaccinations, beginning with Hep B acontinuing up to 8 mercury
containing doses at 6 months. At about the 6 month point (197 days of age) ,
she was caught up by receiving 2 (Hep b # 3 & Hib # 3) while on amoxicillin
treatment for an ear infection. She had developed sever constipation which
persisted for over 6 years, which was never dealt with properly. She went on
to complete the required vaccinations which totaled 15 by age 2, 11 with
Thimerosal (3 Hep B, 4 Hib, & 4 DPT). Her lack of speech is noted on her
pediatric records (language watch) at 13 months of age which is
coincidentally (in my opinion) 1 month after her
contain mercury. She was diagnosed as having a speech delay and a lack of
relatedness when she was 2 years old. She was not considered autistic at
that time because she had a close relationship with her mother, which the
person from our county health department noted, but eventually we began to
hear the terms PDD, autistic spectrum, and then at age 4. Dr. Isabel Rapin
who is often considered the guru of autism, gave us the diagnosis Autistic -
not high functioning, which we took to be fighting words. Although she
didn't support the Dan Protocol, chiropractic treatments, auditory
intervention therapy, casein / gluten removal or many other programs which we
began. She did refer us for genetic testing, an EEG
and an
eventually did. The 3 day EEG was my first real clue. They found no
epilepsy, which we were afraid of due to her shaking and staring spells.
They did note a slowing of wave patterns, diffuse encephalopathy, and spikes
in the occipital lobes. They did not have anything to add, except that they
didn't know why and that medication was not advised at that time. In my
searching on line, in bookstores and libraries, I found references to the EEG
results of people from Minimata bay, which led me to look further into
mercury, but we had no known exposure at that time. In July 1999, when the
news broke about thimerosal, we sought to do chelation. First, with an over
the counter detox product which amazingly improved her bowel function from 6
days to 2!, and about a month later with the doctor I mentioned above, who
used DMSA and other homeopathic treatments for heavy metals, aluminum,
hepatitis, .... We have chartered a slow and steady course, having found
other problems such as pinworms to clear up along the way. It was only this
year in February when we found Lyn, and she started the one-list that things
began to get moving. We began the DMSA and alpha Lipoic Acid every 3 hour
treatment this month, and are in our second round (3 days on, 3 days off, and
are now in our 4th day on again). This seems to be the most promising
approach that I have found, and we aim to prove it
successful!
Joe Marciano
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. My son had tin that was more than three times the top of the reference range. He was also toxic for mercury and arsenic. He has shown good improvements with each round of
chelation. He is in the middle of his seventh round now.
Allison Plant <aplant@gte.net>
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From: "Lorilyn Teasdale" <kteasda1@pe.net>
Subject: Re: Chelation results for
I have heard from Amy Holmes, M.D., and a few parents (all new to chelation) of major improvement that seem to be greater with younger children, and good improvements with ones as old as late teens. In all cases, the improvement was more than just a halt to
further regression. But this is a very small sampling so far.
I did hear third hand about a local child who outgrew his autism at least to the point that he is in regular classes. He is Hispanic, and the mom who told me the story, said the child's mom, when asked, said oh yes they did eat a lot of cilantro.
Lorilyn
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From: Ann Lovell <lovell@icdc.com>
we have gone through 4 cycles now (3 on, 11 off).
1)GI-yes....GOD yes.....We haven't seen a loose
stool in a long time. BUT, we are also using bethanechol
and that had definitely been helping a lot on the GI department.
We see the improvements in many of the "soft areas" like eye contact, spontaneous speech, and peer interaction. It is extremely difficult to say if the chelation is responsible, the bethanechol or perhaps a synergistic effect. I did take him of the bethanechol for one
month straight and noted a definite decline. I have no plans to take him off either in the near future. We are planning to add LA on the next cycle; he has been DMSA only thus far.
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I use 600 mg/day of chemet,as
100 mg q 4. I have also increased to dose of
his total
On his last psych eval, this is parapharsing what the psychologist wrote:
He is doing much better that could be expected. He is prognostically
on the upper edge of a very favorable outcome. That was about 1 month ago.
Christian is 3 year, 2 months old now. Every week he seems to be doing
something new. He communicates, HE
tolorate before with no ill effects. As a child he tested positive via blood work for celiac; I declined the biopsy as he was already GF (and CF due to SEVERE ASHTHMA). I gave him a real McDOnalds Cheeseburger the other day and he was FINE! No GI problems, no behavioral problems. Until I can repeat the bloodwork for celiac, I will not make gluten a routine "food item", but I am optimistic. : "Ann Lovell" <lovell@icdc.com>
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Well, we have been doing the LA detox for 4 cycles here now, and things are
looking good. There has been a little bit of regression, nothing serious,
just being frustrated a little easier, and being upset when I am holding
one of the other kids, and having to know exactly where I am 24/7 (which
means leaving the bathroom door open, oh joy :-) ) The gains, however, are
quite significant already. Today at the park, Rachel ran right to the slide and
went up and down on her own for over a half hour. Normally she just tries
to climb it, and screams because she can't. She has NEVER used it
appropriately before. Then she came and grabbed me, and made me play WITH
her for the next half hour. She would look back to make sure I was coming,
and was laughing while looking directly into my eyes, etc. This is all
VERY new with her. I don't know how to explain it, but she is just more
'there'. Then today, an acquaintence from church stopped by. Her and my
children played together for about 2 hours. After she had been here
awhile, she asked what I was doing different with Rachel. I asked why she
wanted to know. She said that she had seen Rachel progress so much in the
last month, and that I had to be doing something different. I asked her
what she thought Rachel was doing differently. She said that Rachel had
NEVER looked her in the eye before (she works with Rachel directly in
Sunday School at church), but just today, she was looking her in the eyes
constantly and laughing and playing, and trying to engage her and her
children in play the whole time. She said that Rachel is almost a
completely a different child from 1 month ago!!!!! This all was totally
unprovoked from me. She said that the biggest thing was that Rachel is
definately more 'there' now. She isn't as content to just be off in her
own little world now, and wants to be engaged with others in this one. I,
of course, am overjoyed.
Jennifer rochester@clarinda.heartlan
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The time arrived for my sons 2 month old visit to
the pediatrician for what they called a well baby appointment. The only problem
was that he wasn't well. He had a constant loose gurgle in his chest and I
could always hear it if I put my ear up to his back. He had this ever since
receiving the HepB vaccines. The doctor said that the
chest congestion wasn't a good enough reason to delay giving him his shots.I trusted her.He received
an oral polio vaccine(which they no longer give the oral because it caused too
many cases of polio)a
He had a fever,his thigh looked like someone stuck a red baseball on it,and he screamed for hours.When I tried to calm him down he flung himself back in my arms and I had all I could do to hold onto him.I called the doctor.She said he had an allergic response to the pertussis portion of the vaccine.She did not say an adverse response.You see, the adverse response places the burden on the vaccine,an allergic response places the burden on the childs body. I said"Now what do we do?Doesn't he have to have these to get into school?"Oh,yes!Next time we will just give him the vaccines without the pertussis."If I had known it was the vaccines themselves I never would have given him another.I noticed after that he was floppy.Also, I could not put him on his stomach without him crying hysterically. "Maria & Jack Rawlings" <jamaraw@comcast.net>
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We have been using 100 mg captomer (DMSA from Thorne) mixed with 100 mg Alpha
Lipoic Acid (Twin Labs) dissolved in 2 Oz of water, and divided into 4 equal
doses (1/2 oz of liquid with roughly 25 mg of each product). To this we add
either tang or Gatorade, and typically have to give her a wash out drink
afterwards as not all of the substances fully dissolve. We have been doing
weekend chelation every three hours, from Friday after school to Sunday
evening. The last dose is DMSA only. Early results are promising, we just
finished our 8th round, and feel that there are some deep level changes of
awareness and interactivity occurring. CentreAv2C@Aol.com
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We went to an environemental doctor for testing and a holistic MD for the Chemet and DMPS shots. >.We since stoped using our ped and use him our family practice holistic md for everything. He is a family doctor with a open mind to non mainstream and progressive approaches We used DMSA but with all this talk of redepositing "mobilized" mercury into the brain during chelation, I decided to use a little of melatonin every nite. Melatonin is considered very sake and it is cheap. You can buy it at your local health food store without a perscription. So I did. My kids have recovered and are in school. Now, I am not sure they are fully chelated, but they are recovered. We retest them in a week, and I am just finnishing their last cycle of DMSA. They have been on melatonin since April and DMSA 3 days a week since mid June. I have used secretin for 1 &1/2 years. I continue it. It helped, but after 6 mo or so the kids leveled off and still had a severe auditory processing disorder. I use it as I think it helped
and continue it as it may still be helping. Secretin increases seratonin. Serotonin is a vital neurotransmitter in the brain. The same research showing melatonin chelates brain metals also tested seratonin. Both chelated mercury and other metals. So we are doing great and I marvel at the progress. People who know my kids are truly surprised at their progress. . Our twins are now recovered since chelation.
Sincerely, Beverly "Beverly harris" <Flick2Bev@aol.com>
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I wanted to share our son's chelation progress, which we're really excited about!,
We're on our third round of DMSA only (50mg.for our 40lb son, every 4 hours). We're in awe at how much better he seems to feel (he's SO happy, smiling, laughing at people's jokes). We didn't expect to see progress right away the way we have.
When we started the first round of chelation Gavin could only say Hi, Bye, Yeah, and some letters of the alphabet. (He can read words, but up til now hasn't been able to say them, apraxia has been a big problem) Now it's as if he suddenly has the motivation to learn to talk, (he's trying to say whole sentences, and while we're mostly hearing the vowels yet, if he continues at this rate he will be expressing himself in sentences pretty soon!)
The only side effect we've seen so far was a sort of twitch in one eye during the first round. (we started with 25mg.) He had never had that before, and it hasn't come back. Oh, and he does smell a little funny. And his eyes are changing color, when he was little they were very dark brown, closer to black (in retrospect I wonder if that was actually dilated pupils...), now they're green/brown. We haven't ruled out the possibility that we will see some side effects yet, in fact expect that to be part of the process, but sofar it's been going great!
Karen W. mwendt@nconnect.net
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We just started using the DMSA/
Mary Lake260@aol.com
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My son is on the protocol of taking 200 mg of Chemet
every 8 hours for three days along with
really understand about the dosages that are
written here. My doctor changed the protocol for Sal after the San Diego DAN
conference. Christine casti71@
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Jen was autistic and OCD and we have had a hard time with her. Jen is now
taking
As for my other ADD daughter (Kim) who is taking only cilantro leaves, she is have the best year in school ever. She has been getting mostly A's in her class work. Last year the school told me they believed Kim to have a processing problem and she was in Title 1 reading. I am still waiting to hear from the Title 1 reading teacher, but Kim teacher for once is not calling the house after the first week of school to tell me about Kim's behavior. The few times that I talked to her teacher since school started were extremely different from other years and other teachers. She told me how wonderful Kim is doing and she even asked me to be the "Room Mom". I
have never been even considered for "Room Mom". I think Kim's other teachers took one look at Kim's behavior and I was sent to the black list of moms. I was even asked to go on the field trip with Kim's class. I know there has been a big change in Kim's behavior, because she arrives home after school and is concern about getting her homework completed. Last year I had to just
about glue Kim in her seat to do any homework! This year ... she is interested and she is able to stay on task. It has to be the cilantro! Kim tried out for Music lessons at her school and she was approved for three different instruments. She selected the flute and is very proud of herself.
I could not believe she was able to blow a trumpet, clarinet, and the flute. The Music teacher was very impressed. It was if I was with a new child and I was totally amazed. Our family doctor at one point referred to her as maybe being similar to ADD in the past. The doctor told me that because I was treating her with diet (GF/CF), Vitamins and so forth that I was keeping her
from being labeled ADD.Bev "Beverly Weakley" <bridalsh@gte.net>
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Our boys are well into chelation are now able to go a longer period of time on the
longer- time DMSA instead of just weekends. Josh is no longer hyperactive, more calm and cooperative. Connor has lost most of his anxiety, not biting his fingernails. Hope this lasts. We also notice great improvement in upper body strength in Connor like getting upon the
trampoline and tubes in swimming. In the past, he has acted like his right arm and hand and left leg bothered him, like holding or shaking his arm or slightly limping. Of course this is what some people call a stim, but I noticed when I gave him a dose of motrin he would quit
holding arm or shaking his hand.
Judie forhand@oklahoma.net
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Kelsey turned 6 in August (so that's good news, right?)...after 2 rounds of chelation therapy (200 mgs 3 times/day for 3 days, then 4 days off) we noticed the following:
1) Started going in her own bed at night; yes I mean climbed in bed, got a
story read, kissed goodnight and went to sleep within 15 mins..all this after 4 years of unexplainable hell. As a
baby and up until 13 months, she would fall into her routine quite well, and I
remember with great warmth how she would grab her blanket and walk over to the
stairs. We would bring her up to her crib, put her in, give her the blanket,
kiss her goodnite, turn off the light and shut the
door (a real dream baby)...At 13 months (she had her
It's almost like she went back to the way she was prior to this...
2) She stopped picking her nails...and this was horrible. She's been doing it since she was 2 or so...til they bled; we've tried everything, including just holding her hands and lovingly
repeating "no picking" for years. Tried motivators, everything. All of a sudden, she stopped
last week and I had to file the edges last night! -My husband was in shock on
this....
3) Her general behavior has picked up a lot. Our morning routine has not changed in the last 3 years, and yet since we began chelation, the mornings have gone smoothly; she is very aware of the times and what needed to be done when. I still am amazed that for the last 3 years (she was in an early essential education program), the transition to go from the breakfast counter to the bathroom, for brushing teeth, potty, etc. and then out the door consisted of us mostly picking her up while she fell apart and physically moving her to where she needed to be, and then trying to find the motivating factor to get her to complete the task. Even going out the door was hard; more times than not she was screaming/crying out the door...granted the diet (gfcf) helped a lot but now, she clicks the TV (Arthur) off at 7:30, hops down, fills her backpack (by herself), and goes into the bathroom for teeth/potty. She then grabs her backpack and goes out to the mudroom to put on coat and shoes. Then if there's time, which there usually is now, Dad and Kelsey will shoot hoops in the yard waiting for the bus...
4) The pervasiveness is decreased, no matter what the focus. yeah!!-
5) Teeth grinding is down too! She doesn't have much of her teeth left to
lose as she's ground most down to within 1/8 inch of her gums, but I'm hoping
that she'll stop before the new ones all come in!
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I started my daughter out low (1/2 mg per pound of bodyweight - approximately 25 mg of DMSA every 4 hours) because it had been recommended but gosh! you parents that are using higher doses are sure seeing a whole lot more improvement and fast!
My daughter became non-verbal at the age of 2. Is 7, almost 8 years old still considered a young enough age that the metals would chelate rather quickly? After 2 rounds, my daughter has regained some of her strength and agility (she's been hypotonic) and is more interactive though, as yet, no clear verbal attempts.
My daughter, who turned 8 on Dec. 30th, has also been showing subtle yet
startling progress. Subtle because she's still not speaking, but startling because she
has improved in so many other ways and is a happier little girl all around.
"lisa
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Just finishing round 5 of dmsa 7/7 and Finn is making good progress, we really are seeing some positive changes and on this round we think the start of some words :)
ear plugs help his sound sensitivity but for the moment his sensitivity doesnt seem too bad. What I've noticed is during on days he occassionally covers his ears and not just when I'm singing :) so I assume magnessium could be getting depleted.
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Subject: Re: My son, mercury, finally!!!
Just wanted to let you know about Alex. We have been doing
chelation since the middle of Sept. Monthy urines have shown high cadmium,
tin, arsenic, and some lead. The urine before last showed decreased levels of
everything except tin, still elevated. I got back his last urine this week
and his mercury levels are "off the
charts". We added the
October and it did take until the other toxins were removed for the mercury
to appear. Just thought I would let everyone know that it can take sometime
for the mercury to come out, so don't get discouraged. ( like I was becoming)
It also may have finally started to come out after we increased his DMSA to
the new protocol doses, I don't know. Alex is five and a half and I know the
older the child, the more tightly bound the mercury can be. So far he is more
stimmy, which I hope will decrease in subsequent rounds. He is more with it,
responds immed. to his name being called, increased rec. language, better
fine motor, and a few new words, and is watching our mouths and trying to
imitate, which he has never done, will keep you posted as time goes on, just
wanted to let you know that it can take awhile for the mercury to show, so
don't give up the ship!! Val scromb@aol.com
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our son Adam, age 10 and verbal prior to chelation (at about a 7 yr. old level of speech) has become more willing to speak more with chelation. He is not so silent and comes forward to tell us what's on his mind, becomes more sharing of what he enjoys or shares what he
is seeing that is interesting. He yelled out hi to friends passing by in a
car (on the way home from school) - something he would never do before. He
also has done more singing and early on in chelation, showed rhythm to the
music by blowing a little whistle to the beat of the music. (never done
before chelation). A friend of mine whose son has much less language than
my son also showed these music and rhythm signs upon beginning chelation, too.
(after more chelation)
Adam, our 10 year old son is on his 12th cycle of DMSA &
He calls out to me many times asking me to come & see something that's really good on tv. About 1 week ago, he called me up to his room to see how he had decorated his room (he tacked up all the video booklets to the wall and cut up Nicolodian Magazine pictures to hang up. In going through one cabinet, he found 3 Mighty Mouse figures and called out to me from the 2nd floor as he tossed them to me (They are my favorite and he knew how important they were to me). It seems he now cares more about me. Yesterday, a neighbor invited him to the LA zoo. I told the mom "no" on the phone because I didn't want them to have a difficult time. Adam ran home and begged me to go. (this is so unusual). I let him go and they spent the whole day - a great day.
Today, I took the same neighbor out shopping with us at the mall. As we were finished with shopping and ready to leave, Adam asked the boy if he wanted to eat lunch . (in the past, Adam has never asked if another person was hungry or invited someone to lunch - it was always his needs only). I'm really jazzed about this sharing of things he likes and caring more about other people. These aren't consistent with his autistic behaviors for the past
8 years. I sure hope this develops further.
Linda Aly <tafa@gte.net>
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My child was 9 when we started biomedical interventions. He received some improvement from the usual supplements. He improved greatly on the gfcf diet (50% drop in ATEC in a few months). He started chelation in late August '00 and cognitive leaps, behavioral changes
and the development of true empathy have been occuring ever since. He just turned 10 last week. Linda nulani@usa.net
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I have two daughters just turned five and seven both with autism.
Both my daughters began to lose apraxia ( inability to produce
recognizable speech) sometime during their fourth year. My second
daughter late in that fourth year. I think the older kids who have
accomplished this before chelation will show speech improvements
sooner. We are on our fourth round this weekend. My older daughter
is talking about twice as much. She barely pauses to breath before
her next sentence. She is choosing much more natural speech than
before chelation began. But what I am seeing most in my younger child
is increased affection albeit very inappropriate. She hurt my back
she has wanted to be picked up so much. More like a two or three year
old. But she is hearing what is going on around her and
understanding. She is not so vacant. I don't have to repeat every
thing six times before she responds albeit nonverbally. And she is
expressing her needs (again alot nonverbally) instead of tantrumming.
Are you seeing these types of changes? I think clearing that speech
pathway may take longer in kids who do not have it at least partially
cleared. What do you think? Paula Brennari@excite.com
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> > Working with Jane El-Dahr, we began with 100 mg. of DMSA-SR three times per day for five days on and five off. During the six rounds of phase I, I tested urine every other round. There were never any significant results. All elements detected were at the low end
of the reference range. Mercury was always non-detected, except for round six when it was .08 (reference range 0-3).
> > We moved to Phase II. Recently I got the results of my son's urine
test from the first round of Phase II. Mercury was 5.4 (reference range of 0-3)
and nickel was 62 (reference range was 0-12). Dr. El- Dahr
called this a "horrendous amount of mercury." The only unfortunate
thing is that I can not say for sure whether it was the addition of lipoic acid or merely the fact that we had a few rounds
under our belt that made these levels rise. I strongly suspect the
> > We have seen many positives from chelation, although we had a rough time last week during an "off" cycle (lots of anxiety and non- compliance as well as some increased fixations and some toileting accidents--all of these behaviors subside when he is "on"). He has
> > always been verbal and considered high-functioning, but since beginning DMSA he has become more talkative in general. His receptive language has also improved to the point where I can reason with him (...if you do this then this will happen....and he totally gets it.). His play with other children has also greatly improved, though still far from typical and age-appropriate. Those have been the biggest changes.
> > I believe that this is a slow process and that you can't give up after the first couple of rounds if you aren't seeing positive urine tests. I've been ready to throw in the towel many times, but now plan to keep going as long as this junk comes out of him.
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My son's behavior was not as extreme as some but he was considered "developmentally delayed" in February, at age 4. He was not fully potty trained (would regularly pee in his
pants and not even seem to notice), I had trouble keeping clothes on him, and he hated for me to even touch his hair. He was noise sensitive, avoided all moving or riding toys and would not join in groups of children. All of these problems have resolved. He has developed a sense of what other kids think of him, and he has a few "buddies" at school. The only difference I still see is a mild language delay--he has trouble with word retreival, and his language
doesn't really "flow", but he can answer
questions, which he couldn't do in February.
He was GFCF for a while, but isn't now, and I've seen no regression. The
only testing we have had is a hair test, which showed high cadmium, arsenic,
antimony, and borderline high lead. I have used
>From my daughter's hair test we found that she had high copper, which explained her extreme anxiety and frequent classroom outbursts. (She has no delays or other autistic symptoms except hand flapping) She also had high cadmium. She has been taking Spectrum I and a lot
of other supplements, including zinc and molybednum. She is doing extremely well and her teachers
this year report no outbursts. She has done a few rounds of chelation,
mostly with Captomer only since she has high copper,
but I hope to do more with
We just had a wonderful Christmas, with both children very calm, happy and well behaved, despite lots of excitement, lots of chocolate, and a two-week period without the Spectrum I because of a shipping delay. I consider myself very blessed.
"Susan Devlin" <smdevlin5@earthlink.net>
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We just started our third round on DMSA (130 mg/8 hrs, 7/7) yesterday.
Z's hair test had lots of essential mineral imbalances which usually indicates Mercury. I
read and read and read, and finally decided just to jump in, that Amy Holmes' protocol sounded
safe enough to me, regardless of whether he really has a mercury problem. Now the exciting news: We're actually seeing really good results already. Z is using more advanced language, much less brain fog, much less stim, seems much more normal-acting, more conversational. If he keeps progressing at this rate, he'll be normal by Summer, and it's so scary to hope for that!
Terri Mykland <tmykland@mindspring.com>
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The chelation has been good for my daughter other than the first month where there were a few issues like bad days after chelation (More hyper than usual) increased urine accidents, even though she had some issue she was still performing well, increased vocalization, more with it,
Now after 3 months she has greatly increased vocalizations, more actual
words and can say a few on command (which she could never do before) she is so
much calmer,no more urine accidents,her eyes look clearer, I am awaiting lab report
now and am hoping to add
Nancy ndow32408@aol.com
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I just wanted to let you all know, my son (7 yo)
has made more improvement in the past 8 weeks on chelation,
than ANY other therapy thus far! His teachers are overwhelmed by his progress,
My PARENTS are amazed...He has been mainstreaming 1/2 day, and I have been told
that by June he will be in a full day NT setting in school (possibly with
speech)...I am THRILLED. My son lost all of his words at 15-16 months (thanks
CurePDD <Curepdd@optonline.net>
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I would highly recommend chelation as my son's life has changed so very much since he started it.Nothing we have done has prepared us for how much this chelation would mean to us. It has made our son learn so quickly that we have had to have an IEP chnage ( this WED ) as his tecaher said he has met all his goals ....but just since jan 1 (which coincidentally was
when we started ).Jeannie buzzlightyearspacecommander@yahoo.com
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We did six rounds of DMSA and saw progress after the first four rounds. We
did not see progress in rounds five and six so we added
was what we saw the next couple days.
I put Aislinn to bed as usual Tuesday nightn (1/2/01) and Wednesday morning when I went to wake her I found her clutching her Madeline doll (it's a soft doll with red yarn for hair). We have had this doll since Aislinn was a baby. It was given to us by a dear friend of mine
either when Aislinn was
born or for her first birthday. Aislinn used to drag
it around the house till she was about a year and a half and she lost interest
in it. Once we got the autism diagnosis I assumed that she had only been
interested in it because of the texture of the hair.
Here she was, at almost eight years old, obviously having gotten out of bed to go get the doll so she could cuddle with it. I was so moved by this that I made the bed and tucked little Madeline
under the covers with her head on the pillow. When Aislinn went to bed Wednesday night (1/3/01), she was happy to find her there and slept with her again. Thursday also held some magical moments for us. We got a note from school that Aislinn actually swam that day "everything clicked" said the note. Aislinn has been swimming once a week for about three
years now and although she loves the water, she never actually swam. My mother also heard her say "grandma" but that is less significant because words have periodically crept out over the past few years but it's always sporadic and I've learned to get less excited about that.
What I am excited about is this awareness, this interest in "normal" childhood stuff and what I think looks like improvement in her apraxia. I believe her biggest obstacle to speech (and maybe writing and reading) is the apraxia and I think that the chelation is helping to get the metal out of the nervous system so that her brain is better able to process input.
I had started to lose hope again but these past few days have re-energized me.
Tali "Tali Wendrow" <taliflam@yahoo.com>
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I have many friends with children like mine with Autism. All are doing
chelation now, some 8 hour and a few 4 hr dosing. My son who is 11 started chelation recently and is progressing slowly. He is trying to talk, saying words here and there, and seems to be aware of things, like his baby pictures, etc.. that he never seemed to notice before.
One child, Rachael(5 1/2), in > particular I have watched almost normalize since starting chelation in July, (8 hour dosing). She was fairly seriously involved with major social, language, and phobic behaviors. She is not the same child today, she improves daily.
Melissa Harris <HMH95@aol.com>
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I have been chelating my non-verbal son every weekend for about a month now. Today, my oldest daughter asked her non-verbal brother if he understands what she is saying to him...he
nodded, and tried to say something. He also has been displaying behavior that indicates that he is understanding more, such as tonight, he brought me the Disney movie Oliver...His twin sister complained that she wanted to watch Alice in Wonderland, he promptly got the Alice in Wonderland video! These are small steps, but they are definately steps in the right
direction! Lindy <gotojoshua1_9@yahoo.com>
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In the 5 rounds of
WONDERFUL eye contact, minor interaction with other children
Lots of hugs and kisses with her cousins, chasing the kids at the playground
played at the discovery zone type place, swinging on the swings
less "stimming" , minor spontanious verbalizations, will attempt any words requested
trying new foods, fighting her suppliments ;-)
played on the computer actualy trying to manupulate the mouse
Sat quietly and helped while getting her hair cut yesterday
this was a silent, non verbal, apaxic child before chelation who has lately had to be told to
be quiet in restraunts. Got loud yesterday trying to wake her cousin up,
While Grinning! She knew what she was doing! I had just told Grandma in her
hearing that you know Grace she's so quiet she won't wake her up! ;-)
laurie Mom to Grace 3.11 Laurie Hunter <chinamom@pioneer-net.com>
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My son Daniel was 3 on March 22nd. We have been doing speech therapy twice a week and OT for twice a week for a year and a half. Daniel regressed following his DTP from which he almost died. 10 days in the hospital, constant IV antibiotic, fever over 106, convulsions. He got better, but was never the same. Along with the therapies, we have done GFCF diet, ABA, supplements, etc. Nothing has helped the way chelation has. We just finished round 1 of DMSA only, and he has taken off. He is finally talking, and very clearly. He has lost his apraxia diagnosis. He knows all letters, numbers, 9 colors, 10 shapes, and speaks appropriatly, although not in long sentences-1 or 2 words. My husband was skeptical, but now knows that we could have done everything under the sun therapy wise, but it was not going to get through to him. He is indistinguishable, looks like a language delay. Can't wait to start round II. This is what did it for us. Best wishes to you. "Wendi Dupuy" <wrdupuy@home.com>
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Jared is autistic, 7 1/2, 55lbs.- we go to Dr. Amy
Holmes. We have been chelating since Sept. 00- we give 50 mg DMSA 25
kenneth kersmanc <kenjoan@rbnet.com>
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My son was dx'd at age 2-1/2. At that time he
had no eye contact, no language (just sounds and babble), was sensory
defensive- didn't want to be touched or held, and had no relationship with
people. He would have pushed Brio trains on a floor all day long, if we let
him, and never noticed who in the family came or went.
Today, at age 4.8 yrs, thanks to biomed.
interventions
intensive 1:1 ABA, both in a school setting, and in a Home-based program, my
son is largely recovered. He is flourishing in a mainstream preschool class
with 22 kids and a shadow, who does VERY little prompting, except for social
stuff. My son talks non-stop (although he has a residual speech delay), he is
one of the most social kids in the class, he spontaneously hugs and kisses
us, his academics are all age-appropriate.
Definitely try to get your child started ASAP with an intensive 1:1 home
program for as many hours as you can, in conjunction with the biomed.
Interventions. This combination will afford your child the best opportunity
to maximize his progress in the shortest amount of time.
Andrea
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We started when my son was 6 and are almost done. His last two provocative
urine tests and fecal tests showed no mercury -- just arsenic and nickel.
The previous three urine tests showed mercury within or under reference
ranges. This has taken over three years for him but most of his problem was
living on a golf course where they sprayed large amounts of arsenic and I'm
sure there was loads of nickel in the fertilizers. He was extremely high in
almost all the toxic metals.
At this point, I think we're done with getting the bad stuff out (except for
the last of the arsenic) but will probably need to do a round of chelation
every six months or so and sauna a few times a week just to make sure his
body stays healthy. I think there is something that makes them hold onto
metals and toxins more and even after you get the metals out, it's wise to do
preventative things to keep their bodies from becoming toxic again.
nomoremetals@aol.com
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We started the diet last
summer and started chelating mid February. After five cycles we are
definitely seeing progress. More conversation, less keeping to herself,
paying attention to the conversation of others and chiming in. Her memory
seems to be improving and she is starting to think ahead. Today we went to
Six Flags and she packed her backpack with stuff to do while we were
waiting in the long lines. This is amazing for her. And in the car with the
radio on she actually turned the music down so she could tell me something
yesterday! lnett@flash.net
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favrose4@aol.com
I have a 7 year old daughter who is being chelated with 50mg of DMSA every 4 hours/ 3 days on/11 off. A year and a half ago she was considered aspergers. Now she has fully recovered and is in a regular class with no supports. She is on a strict gfcf diet. Her DD hair test showed elevated aluminum (11 with ref. range <8) and arsenic (0.14 with ref. range <0.06), with all the other items being within the ref. range. By the counting rules she is mercury toxic as well.
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Here's something measured for you. Pre-chelation, my 9yo (asp)
couldn't pass a timed math test. Pregfcf his scores were 9 to 16%.
Once into gfcf, scores hit the upper 30th percentile. After the
first round of DMSA, 89%. Currently in the 90th percentile. Pre-
chelation, he struggled through the school year with accomodations
and an EA. Currently no EA, on the honor roll 2nd & 3rd term, only
accomodation is to answer
essay questions orally.
Pregfcf, stressed to the max, mood swings, rages, sleep disorder, often sick. Gfcf - healthier, less stressed, fewer mood swings but occasional rages. Currently, 10 yo, no chronic
health problems, no mood swings, low stress, no
sleep disorder, no rages since 8/00.
While his
confusion, frequent terror and chronic poor health & pain. His life
has positively, not subtlely, improved on chelation.
Linda nulani@usa.net
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most of us using
Laurie chinamom@pioneer-net.com Mom to Grace 3.11
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My son was put on
positive response to
jan.perkins@cmich.edu
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Our son recently completed his 7th round of chelation with DMSA every 4 hours, and I wanted to share his progress! He's 4 yrs old, and his dose has been 80 mg.. Here's the positive things we've seen during and (mostly) after the last 3-4 rounds: Our son started writing! the alphabet, short words, and numbers 1-10. This floored us as he'd never written anything by himself before. He writes equally well with both hands. He's started responding to smiles from us, returning a smile, and his facial expressions are just more "there". He's started eating several new fruits and vegetables (including lettuce!). We thought we'd never see the day, since he's been mostly a (GF) toast and water boy for quite a while. He's working so hard at processing what we say to him, and mostly succeeding at 2 step requests. And, finally, he's trying to
imitate speech! (Imitating on request and spontaneously) He's had terrible problems with apraxia, and we're going to have a long road to help him catch up his expressive language, but we think he's going to be OK. mwendt@nconnect.net
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The Fog is Lifting!!! We just finished round 3 yesterday with 3 on 4 off every 4 hours at 25
mg. + 250 mg. of Glycine every other dose. ABA is going awesome! We've never been able to get him to do any imitating "Gross Motor" and we've been trying since the beginning of January. Since the start of chelation 3 weeks ago he can now tap table, clap hands, wave, and place arms up. He is now "touching" head, feet, stomach, nose, mouth, and eyes. He got this in the last 2
sessions. At the rate we're going it won't be long before we're through with the Beginning Curriculum for ABA. I have a feeling we're going to have to redo his IEP for this school year. I'm so excited I can't stand it!!! The only side effects we've seen so far is he's really loud and more hyper. Jo (South Carolina) JPiker@aol.com
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My 11.5yo son, Richard, became autistic within hours of a DPT vaccination in
1991. We started DMSA Chelation in October 2000 by giving 150mg DMSA + 500mcg
Melatonin every four hours from Friday at
miss a single weekend of chelation. I give a long list of supplements on
Monday through Friday in the mornings. Richard's symptoms like chronic constipation, hands over ears (Mg deficiency) and recurring yeast infections cleared up within a month to six weeks of starting chelation.
In January, I started giving 50mg Alpha Lipoic
Acid + 150mg DMSA + 500mcg Melatonin every four hours from Friday at
skills improved substantially and he could answer simple questions.
Bob Fisher, Kalamazoo, Michigan "Bob Fisher" <bob@mei.net>
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We are seeing Improvement with chelation. Austin has never been able to stand on one foot for longer than 2 or 3 seconds. He came to me last night and said, "Watch this mom" He stood on
one leg for a full 10 seconds!!! I was astounded. We are in the middle of round 4 of chelation. I am just thrilled. Also, he told me the medicine makes him "feel better"
Evelyn ejpickwick@aol.com
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My son was a DTP vaccine reactor which ended him up in the ER at just 8 weeks of age .
seen it or lived it all yourself before. Diarrhea . Vomiting. Bone thin . Couldn't stand the sunlight. Heat was a killer . Couldn't stand loud noises . Hated reading a book or even me reading to him. After we stopped his diarrhea at about age 3 or 4 his weight rectified itself and then suddenly sprung up at age 5 as his thyroid shut down. One disappointment after another.
We have literally tried it all ( except IVIG which
I found terribely invasive ). And with every therapy
came a small success. Everything we did helped some and some things helped
quite a bit in some areas.Bethanechol, secretin, SI therapy, GFCF Diet,
But nothing could have prepared me for what chelation was going to do for us.
He is now about to start his first round of Phase Two on 75 mg DMSA with 25
mg
After 14 months GFCF he is now able to eat pretty much whatever. His yeast issues are gone. Of course we still add enzymes to heavy gluten meals but I don't even do that for Casein anymore as he has proven to have gone thru a total cure on that one. A new CDSA will reveal what we have yet to work on or set our sights for. A fatty acid test proved that he is not too terribley off kilter there either any longer !! He is eating a variety of foods now as well as drinking many new liquids all of a sudden. From 5 foods to this ! He no longer wets the bed at night as I believe I have mentioned once before in a post.
At 3 he weighed about the same as a mosquito. Then as he grew he changed and became 4'3" and weighed a whopping 102 pounds as his thyroid shut down. Now with GFCF and chelation,
in about one year has grown to 4'8" and is now 93 pounds. His hypothyroidism is stalled and hopefully he will be able to produce it all properly from here on out. He now plays with children very well with apporpriate eye contact. He is even initiating play with children ! He responds well to questions about his age and name although it is very shyly. He has even started imaginary play on his own and as recently as today joined in with others in their pretend play and played appropriately much to my shock and great pleasure.
His language, both receptive and expressive, has improved a great deal ( although this is where he is still far below average ) .But considering from where we started, this too is a remarkable achievement. His eyesight has gone from 2.25 down to 1.5 of normal - meaning that
his eyes are improving ! He can play outside without shading those eyes. He can climb and hang onto monkey bars - even though he would be considered far from coordinated, LOL. But it doesn't have to look pretty to be okay ! He can hit a baseball without a T .
He can sink baskets in a basketball game and has learned to bounce/dribble the ball ( not great, but hey ... it's a start ).His taste in movies isn't between Blues Clues and Barney anymore. He
enjoys Dr Dolittle, Small Soldiers and Indian in the Cupboard , Spy Kids and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .... you know ... regular kid movies. He just attended the symphony with us; was IN the 4th of July parade; entered a race with me after the parade in the swimming pool in a mom and kid race . And as much of a slug as I thought I was we didn't come in last either !
This is almost .... okay almost, but not quite.... what I expect moms of truly "typical" kids to do with their children. This is what chelation has done for us.
Jeannie G. buzzlightyearspacecommander@yahoo.com
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. Rachael used DMSA for 3 months and after a testing we had pulled out all the mercury from the body. We then added the ala with DMSA and tested after about the third round. We were
pulling out more mercury and that was the mercury that had crossed the blood brain barrier. My child is basically recovered from autism, so I can't say enough good things about
chelation. If you met her you would see a normal child.
Mary Jane (Rachael's mom) weatherman6001@aol.com
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Improvements began with the first round and have continued. On the third day
of the first round, Joe began to complain when I would help him with taking off
his pajamas. Before, I could pretty much do whatever with him without any
complaints. He also began to ask a lot of questions, particularly about books
we were reading. He used to like me to read the same book over and over. The
first round of chelation he began to ask what words
in the book meant, even though he had heard them numerous times before. It was
like he was suddenly hearing the story for the first time. His teachers report
the same changes, although we never told them we were chelating. In addition,
his handwriting improved drastically. Joe is seldom "spacey" anymore.
Receptive language is still low, but improving. His expressive language skills
have definitely improved and continue to do so. He is much better able to talk
about family issues.
Some things, however, have not improved. When Joe gets sick, his OCD
tendencies greatly heighten. He is still frequently congested and sick
sometimes. His eating is very self-limited, and he is underweight. He still
reacts strongly to foods such as soy, casein, and gluten.
We are seeing mercury and lead in numbers above the reference range when we
test. We are still on DMSA alone, without
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We have been chelating our son Aaron for a year now, I have to say it was
one of the best things we have ever done, besides dietary changes and
different child then even a year ago. Melt downs are down to a minimum, and
basically almost gone, he has become more patient and does not have to have his
way on the spot, he understands life better over all, and asks lots of
appropriate questions concering emotions and
everything in general about life. His language has grown in leaps and bounds,
his sense of humor is wonderful, kidding and joking, he has personality that is
shining through, and you see both his fathers traits
and mine. He understands being good and bad, even when others are not being
honest
versus dishonest. He enjoys life more, he is happier, and I do not wake up
anymore wondering what the day will hold. The bipolar behavior has subsided
tremendously. His independance has grown almost over
night. He is quick to make right responses in different situations.
Although he is still in a regular ed class, not much has changed in that area,
he still needs to be kept on task, but he has gotten nicer to the children and
more tolerant of his aides, and understands why they are there. He will tell me
at times that someone talked to him and he did not
want to talk back, or he wanted to tell them to shut up, or they are stupid
(these are things he has
picked up from children that are mean to him) but
he tells me even though he felt like it he didn't, so he is able to make more
appropriate decisions for himself. We have not done all the testing involved, we
spend so much on supplements and dietary things, that the tests because some
could be not done at the right time, such as urine and stool, I hate to pay for
hit and miss, in other words you may go out of your way to do a urine or a
stool, and what was going to come out may have come out the day before, so they
are not exactly reliable, but parents who have gotten good test results are so
pleased to know that metals are coming out. We do have regular
is easier to do then people think. I have to say though, when we first started
to do it I thought I had made the biggest mistake of my life, we saw every old
behavior that we had seen
through the years, but now with langauge, I went out
in the garage and sobbed thinking I had done the worst thing in the world, but
I now realize that as the metals were moving that this is normal, and it is OK,
if it is making our little ones well. We did have a hair test when he was 3,
that showed lots of mercury and other toxic things high, then we had a hair
test almost a year ago that showed different, but all that showed us was that
the metals had gone deeper into the tissue of the body organs and brain. For us
there was no option, we have to get the poison toxic metals out of our son, and
we are glad we have made the decision, and I think just to give you
some comfort, the good has outwayed the bad for most
of the children, lots of positives and lots of parents to cheer you on in good
times and bad. I have to say again, our son is a
different person, just more normal over all. And no he is not fully recovered
but
well on his way to a better life then I would have imagined even a year ago,
I'll give you a perfect
example, just now he was outside in the front playing with a remote control
car, we have the third part of our garage converted into a room for our cats,
he had let the cats out so they could go outside for a while also, he just came
in he let me know he had closed the garage, and he had put the cats back in thier room before he closed the garage door so they would
not get hurt. Now if you look back at my original post this past year on the
site, I like to remember back to when Aaron was 4 and very severe, the only
thing he didn't do was smear fecal matter
and eat dirt. He was non verbal, still in diapers, ate
baby food, drank a bottle tantrumed all day and was
horrified!!!!!!! of the whole world, literally
everyone and everything,
self injurious, and stimmed all day. He looked retarded
with his little crossed eye, and I never thought I would be able to look back
years from now and be relieved that those years have passed, but they have
Lisa, and he has come far. I will continue to chelate
until I feel with
have gotten everything out of the body that was never ment
to be their. My
sister has a boyfriend that is a doctor, I love to talk to him, he seems to
think that if we get the
metals out he sees not reason why recovery would
not be possible, he says the body and brain have the ability to regenerate, and
children bounce back wonderfully. Almost like some stroke patients, the ony differance is a stroke
patient has something to go back to, most of these children did not have much
before the original insult to their system, so they have to make up for lost
time and have alot to learn because they missed so
many development stages,Leah
"Valadez" <
valadez4@s...>
I am so glad you posted this, my son had the EXACT same reaction. We started in December, and he regressed TERRIBLY. I was also going to stop, but stuck with it, and my son has come out of his horrible phase. His awareness level is at an all time high, he is seeking out other
children his age to play (7.5) I am ecstatic, and would reccomend to anyone to hang in there, and press on :)-Shari CurePDD <Curepdd@optonline.net>
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Rachael was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. She had lost 99% of
what vocabulary she did have, very poor eye contact, acted deaf - just tuned
out from the world. She played repetitively like taking all the blocks out of a
box and then putting them back in the box over and over and over.....she would
line her toys up, but not play with them, unless you consider watching her see
and say spin around and around and around! She had major auditory
problems very very sensitive to sound. She could not
be in public because sound just hurt her too much, she was very very phobic of people and just had lots of fears and
phobias.. We started her on the GFCF diet, did Digital
Auditory Aerobics (
therapist and now that she is writing every day in kindergarden
she is catching up fast!
Mary Jane weatherman6001@aol.com
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James will become age 5 tomorrow. James was diagnosed with autism after a
total regression about
3-3.5; it took us awhile to notice how severe it was, We
believe James ate some lead paint chips at about age 3 that fell from the
ceiling during a severe rain storm while living in Kazakstan.
He has many toxic metals in his body. Developmentally James is about 3.5-4 but
his language
skills are extremely weak, primarily naming and asking. He began taking a
"Mitocondrial Cocktail" of 5 ingredients and
soon was walking again. He has been GFCF for 10 months. He takes many
supplements. He has had ABA for 6 months about 3-4 hours a day. He had some
rare parasites that I hope have been eliminated, I have not retested. We are
extremely encouraged by lack of side effects following Andy's 3-4 hour
chelating protocol and delighted by the improvements we are noticing in James
at this early stage after 2 rounds of chelation.
August 25-26-27 Second weekend DMSA/
points out colors or shapes of objects. Still no
conversation. He's saying "Look" and watches to see if I look!
He is smiling and laughing while playing and riding his bike. Today he
delighted in an Epsom salt bath and repeatedly asked me to pour water over his
head while he
giggled. James is noticing his wet or dirty diaper and asking for a new diaper.
He will sometimes say he is going to pee and go himself to the toilet. He hums
or talks to himself while he does most things. You have all helped me to get my
son to the point he is now when the AMA doctors offered no more hope for us.
Our family doctor is amazed at James' progress.
James begins Kindergaten on Tuesday. Sharon in
Virginia
sharon.morris@juno.com
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We are finished with chelation ! After 16 months of chelation
therapy my son's metals are all in range. Chelation
was a big success for us and has improved him immeasurabley.
If I was to tell anyone anything that they should positively do it would be this.
Not totally cured, of course, he is nonetheless light years from where he was
when we first started it. Each month still brings us new achievements which we
had never conceived as possible. No longer GFCF ( although
I still cook recipes that way roughly 50% of the time ), with his pancreas
working splendidly now producing enzymes normally, our last bastian
is his hypotonia ( he had a DTP recation
as well as
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buzzlightyearspacecommander@yahoo.com>
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my sons chelation dose of DMSA is 50 mg daily with 75
mg
I have been using the DAN PROTOCOL for over 6 months. We test our child
regularly to make sure he is doing well on this protocol. He is on over 30
supplements daily to help support his system. From what I hear from parents,.it takes several years to rid mercury from the
body and this is why I choose to be as aggressive as I can but yet not doing
damage. I'm concerned that using such low doses as Andy's protocol slow down
the
proccess.
My son was diagnosed with autism at 23 months......now three in Oct. He has
made
incredible leaps. I cant even begin to paint a clear
picture for you because
words dont do it justice. besides
the fact it would take forever:-)
Yes we do experience the runs the first two days of chelation
as each day goes on the stemming increases but thats about it. after two
days
off the DMSA there is always a very visible jump of progress. He is very
healthly and feels better that he ever has.
Yes there are several parents on this board that are having good results with
low doses, but there are also a ton of parents who are having good results
with the DAN PROTOCOL . Kimberly jonmahurin@aol.com
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I think what most of us are doing is low dose chelation,
but more frequently
to keep the chelator even in the blood stream, and
not to over tax the kidneys and liver, our son is 60pds, 8 years old. and we give it every 4 hours 3 days on 4 days off. The
amount in a 24 hour period is 350mg, our son is doing well and we have seen
progress since the beginning of chelation. Please
others correct me if I am mistaken, I think the side affects are alittle worse on a higher doses so we have stayed at 50 and
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My daughter suffered from autism due to mercury poisoning from vaccines. Far Infared sauna removes mercury safely from the body. This is the prime method that I have used to successfully remove mercury from my 5 year old daughter who was effected by mercury exposure, today she is quite normal and happy, she suffered from extreme sensory integration disorder and developmental delay. Today she is a model student and has many friends and is doing great in school. Any questions, please feel free to contact me.
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My son began displaying autism symptoms at the age of 5months. He received
his first DPT vaccine at the age of 4 months. However; at the age of 8 months
upon receiving his 2nd DPT the symptoms increased. For my son, 3 1/2 yo, chelation in combination with
Houston enzymes works the best. Of course, lots of supplements too, which I'm
sure helps a lot, but the thing that seems to make a huge difference are these
enzymes. We started chelation 4 months ago, but
things started to work really well and faster since we added the Houston
enzymes. Now my son learns differently and at an accelerated rate, but I am
convinced that he would have never been able to learn this way and do all the
things he can do now, without chelation. My son was 3
y 3 ms. old when we started chelation and he is doing
great now. Others have started with older kids and had even better results. I
guess itdepends on each person. I started with
A year ago he could barely remember his name and he was in a really bad
condition
and now... we can play together, we laugh a lot, he likes to play tricks on
me...
Valentina Scharpf
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Here are my four kids, pre-chelation:
#1 boy shadow-AS, ADD, CAPD, gifted in most areas
#2 boy low-functioning Kanner's autism, never
developed, had no skills at age 4
#3 boy no language at age 4, lots of skin problems and oral behaviors, possibly
PDD
#4 girl major food issues, I did not allow the
I am chelating all four of my kids with
#1 much less severe symptoms, have completed maybe 25 rounds with him
#2 boy no longer qualifies as autistic, still severely language delayed, no
behavior issues, food issues resolving, developmentally about age 3, chron age almost 7; My son must have been VERY metal toxic,
because he is doing amazingly well with
#3 boy has quite a bit of language now, more than #2,
food issues resolving, no more skin problems or oral behaviors
#4 girl talks WAY
She had one eye which wandered out. It also would get goopy green eye
discharge. It was worse when she ate a food she did not tolerate, or when she
had a yeast problem.
Dana <danaatty@yahoo.com>
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My 8yo developed vocal tics, like coughing and things like that. When
I treat him for yeast, his tics go away. I use
he appears to be shadow-AS and ADD, maybe some
CAPD, but I am chelating him and his "issues" are disappearing. Dana
<danaatty@yahoo.com>
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So far, we've done 16 rounds. The results have been out of this world! He is so
much calmer and more social than when we started. He still has problems with
auditory processing but I believe that too will go away. It's definitely worth
the sleepless nights. :)
Joan <Joan111582@aol.com>
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My son who was autistic is much better after chelation.
He does not have an official diagnosis anymore, but he still has some mild
Sensory integration issues. He is very bright, very social with us at home, his
grandparents, his therapists, and he does pretty well socially when it is
one-on-one. It gets harder for him when he is buggy and larger groups are
really tough. He looks and acts quite normally, just socially delayed. I think
the noisiness of the preschools doesn't bother him nearly as much as it used
to, he just has a harder time paying attention and staying on task. We have chelated for 26 rounds (we are on round 27 this weekend)
and have
seen some tremendous gains, but I was hoping the social skills in a group
setting would come in and the anxiety would diminish. He learns all the songs
in preschool. Sits and pays attention in circle time, tells me what everybody
did at school, tells me what he did at school. He just can't seem to feel
comfortable enough to talk to the other children. He still parallel plays.
Elizabeth <stanfun89@yahoo.com>
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Elijah 4 had major problems including ODD, OCD and was succumbing to the world of vaccination damage when he was 15 months old, and now after 10 rounds of chelation is almost fully recovered. Patti, "tiredmamma18042" <
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I am having success with combining EDTA oral and
> Although Jon is not fully recovered he understands all the basic language
no longer spins, flaps, etc. but is OCD, and language impaired but not
incapable of learning. I believe now we need to retrain the brain and continue
with chelation. Jon gets Houston Enzymes, Natures Biotics, Allergy A, Oil of Oregano or
oils. He doesn't tolerate B's but does well with magnesium. Jon is now 9 years
old. It is music to my ears to hear him say "Thank you" and
"Your Welcome" when he didn't even look at me or know who I was for
more than 3 years Adrian, Jon Paul's mom, Determined Parent
"Prokofiew" <
aprokofiew@earthlink.net>
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I reported last week about my son's tremendous speech progress (he caught up
6 months of speech in 2 weeks), but I have to post again. His speech therapist
formally evaluated his language skills this morning. She did a preschool test.
My son is 2y4m and he tested 2y5m for expressive language and 2y7m for
receptive language!!! I cannot believe his receptive level... he was still non
verbal in April, at approximately 12 months level 3 weeks ago and at
approximately 18 months level last week!
I want to add that he has a severe apraxia and his
articulation is terrible. So his speech is very difficult to understand but he
does not qualify for language delay anymore, just articulation issues.
We have done 17 rounds so far: 12 with DMSA only and 5 with DMSA+
"ferdeson" <
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I started chelating a 16 yr old with ADHD/CAPD/LD who couldn't sleep, was sensitive to touch, sounds, light, reacted to almost every food, chemical out there, had bowel & stomach problems and had been labeled Bipolar. This kid will be 18 very soon and no longer has any signs of displays any signs of sensitivities, eats anything, communicates well, socializes, drives, sleeps well and is continuing to get better. So no 15 is not too late to start.
Michele "zookpr56" <Mcro99@aol.com>
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Tyler was 4 weeks early weighing only 3 lbs.After his
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We used homeopathic detox for my 5-year old
autistic son. We did 10 rounds of DMSA/
"mak4232001de" "<mak4232001de@yahoo.com>
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My son is 50 pounds, taking 10 mg. DMSA, and 12.5mg
"Kim Wolford"
"<kwolford@insightbb.com>
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My son was severely autistic. We were lucky to start chelation
very soon after his diagnosis, just before he turned 2 yo.
Today, after 45+ rounds, I do not think he meets the autism criteria anymore.
He is more ADHD. > I have never done IV of anything, just oral chelation with DMSA and
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My son is essentially recovered from autism doing chelation for mercury. I do dmsa and ala, sam-e , ala, dmsa, mtp . Those are 5 different protocols.With all of them I make sure I have filled him up enough B's, C,D.A,zinc, efa's,magnesium, calcium,dmae, dmg, omegazyme,coq10,. The dmsa/ala every 3-4 hours three days on 2 weeks off.Sam-e 2 200mgs a day for 3 days, ala every 3-4 hours three days on 2 weeks off,dmsa 3 days every 3-4 hours then 2 weeks off,mtp-fri, sat, sun once a day.I saw the most improvements with the dmsa/ala and the sam-E protocols. My son told me the sam-E made him feel the best of all of them.I think you have to do trial and error because of the children having different systems screwed up in their bodies. We always took 5 steps forward, 3 steps back.....but we always ended up ahead of the horror that was stealing my son .I always knew that when I first saw regression that he would soon make progress especially when he was a toddler.I was almost like a hurdle had to be jumped first.
Maria R "Maria & Jack Rawlings" "<jamaraw@comcast.net>
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more cases
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism-Mercury/files/LOVE_LETTERS
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OTHER CASES
" I had a 12 year old girl that went from a straight-A student to a D student in 2 years. We tested her and she was found to have very high mercury content. She was also diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, a mild form of Autism. After using one box of Detoxamin her mercury content decreased and her grades went back up to straight A's". , Dr. Robert Schwartz, The Dalles, Oregon 3- 7-03
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MELISA
I have now tested the first Austrian child with autism-8 years boy who never had any fillings.
He responded clearly positively to 2 metals:inorganic mercury and nickel. I do not know anything about her mother's health status.
Vera Vera Stejskal <vera.melisa@swipnet.se>
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" At the recent ACAM meeting, Ronald Hoffman, MD presented the case of an autistic
girl he had treated . Her hair mercury was extremely high, probably as a result of transplacental transfer of the metal or vaccinations. After DMSA treatment, Dr. Hoffman said the child was no more autistic than Bill Gates. The school psychologists re-evaluated the child and in their wisdom proclaimed that the original diagnosis of autism was a misdiagnosis and that the child could never have had autism! Dr. Hoffman can be found on the ACAM site, www.acam.org. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Unlocking Autism: http://www.unlockingautism.org/os/default.htm
Parents/Professionals for Exceptional Progress(
Autism Research Institute: http://www.autism.com/ari
Asperger's Syndrome: OASIS: http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/
Homeschooling Children who AUT to be at home:
http://home.earthlink.net/~tammyglaser798/authome.html
Homeschooling Children With Autism: Aut-2b-Home:
http://www.weirdkids.com/autism/aut2bhome.htm
National Home Education Network: http://nhen.org/
International Dyslexia Association: http://www.interdys.org/
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kids recovered from autism at RecoveredKids@yahoogroups.com
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JAQUELYN McCANDLESS, M.D.
Certified by American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
21800 Marylee St., #48
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
TO PARENTS
I am a physician certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology, conducting clinical practice in Southern California. In the last
few years I have begun specializing in the treatment of developmentally
delayed children, primarily those in the autistic spectrum disorder group.
I was called into this work by one of my grandchildren being diagnosed with
autism, and have since been non-stop researching and trying to understand
and treat this disorder.
At this point I am treating as many children as I can handle in my practice,
and the stories are all so similar that I must corroborate from my clinical
experience what is becoming obvious to many throughout the world. The
vaccines as part of the toxic world we live in are contributing to the
weakening of the children's immune systems generally, borne out by the
incredible rise in asthma/allergic disorders, diabetes, and other autoimmune
diseases as well as autism. If there happens to be a genetic predisposition
in the family, the combination of the genetics and toxic insult particularly
during gestation or early childhood may lead to developmental delay from
mild learning disorders and ADD/ADHD to full-blown autism Statistics are
bearing this out; one in 150-250 children are receiving the autistic
diagnosis at this time, and literally millions of children are being treated
for learning delay disorders with the numbers
increasing every year.
Though the general feeling among clinicians such as I is that the injury
most often starts with the injection at birth of the toxin thimerosal in the
Hep B, (which has recently finally been removed from the newborn's vaccine)
the cumulative effect of the vaccines injure the child's immune system
starting a familiar chain of events. That is, multiple
infections/antibiotics, gut disorders, food
intolerances etc. with the
often being the final blow before their descent into
autism.
My current recommendation is that any child and particularly one with a
developmental disorder or with a family member with an autoimmune or
developmental delay disorder be given special care by the physician ordering
the vaccines. Several caveats are that the child should be in good health
before receiving vaccines, all vaccines be thimerosal free, and all
vaccines be given as separate components, e.g. M & M & R each being six
months apart and boosters only for those testing negative for immunity.
Hepatitis B should be given to a newborn only if the mother tests positive,
otherwise the child can wait until 4-5 years of age. Pediatricians are
recommended to read the July 2001 issue of Pediatrics for more
recommendations; their report on Mercury in the Environment states that all
recommended childhood immunizations are available in thimerosal-free forms
now, and parents must insist on these for their children. Parents must be
willing to be advocates for their children and help educate their doctors
during this period of intense research and reform that is taking place
regarding childhood immunizations.
Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D. E-mail JMcCandless@prodigy.net
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Excellent success treating autism using TD DMPS chelation;
Dr. R. Buttar, Autism, the Misdiagnosis of Our Future Generations, Congressional Testimony: Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, May 2004, www.hyperbaricmedicalassociation.org/docs/0_BUTTAR1.PDF
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