Re: Test result...Moria or Andy or other---would like opinion

[Guest guest]

> I am curious about what my son's tests indicate.

First and most important that you need to tell the doctor to order the

right tests, like a Hair Element Profile from Doctor's Data. Without

the right tests you may never figure out what is going on.

>

> My son's first urine metals challenge test was....

What was the challenge agent? DMSA dramatically increases urine lead

levels, so I don't know if this means anything or not.

BTW, why are you doing a challenge test? These are diagnostically

useless.

> 2.1 <3

>

> His next urine metal challenge test was....

> Aluminum 25 < 35

> Antimony .1 < 5

> Arsenic 14 < 100

> Beryllium <dl < .5

> Bismuth .3 < 30

> Cadmium .4 < 2

> Lead 130 < 15

> Mercury .6 < 3

> Nickel 5.2 < 12

> Platinum <dl < 2

> Thallium .1 < 14

> Thorium <dl < 12

> Tin 2.4 < 6

> Tungsten .4 < 23

> Uranium <dl < 1

>

> Then since the lead was so high, his doctors wanted a blood test.

(no

> DMSA was administered before blood draw) His lead was within normal

> range for this one.

It is helpful to know the numbers.

>

> What does this mean? That the lead was the first to leave and now

it

> is at out of his system so it didn't show up high in blood?

I don't know what it does mean, but it doesn't mean that.

> I know

> that most parents report that the lead is the first to leave. So

> does this mean that his lead level is okay now?

No.

>

> Also, since it was 130 before with the ref <15, does this mean that

> he also had acute lead poisoning and now it is okay?

No.

>

> His DAN doctor was very concerned about his lead levels, but his

> other mainstream doctor's nurse said that the doctor said that

> sometimes they are just off. Are they off that much?

I don't know. I doubt they do either. Ask them to show you the chart

of some other kid they have treated who had a result like that (it is

perfectly OK for them to do this if they hide the name and

identifying information on it before you see it, e. g. by holding

their hand over it or putting a post-it over it).

> (it is not

> like I stirred his urine up with a pencil before I sent it in) Or

is

> she just trying to blow this off since his levels appear at safe

> levels now?

Who knows? Since she is using urine challenge tests she has no real

idea what is and isn't diagnostically useful anyway, so she is basing

her diagnosis more on her clinical impression than on the test results

- at least so you may hope.

Andy