please help: convultion during chelation

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My son had a convultion today (3rd chelation day), 30 minutes after he had

taken DMSA+ALA (he was already feverish at the time we gave DMSA+ALA). His

eyes got opened like frozen and he stayed unconsiously and without breathing

for some minutes. It was the first convultion in life and he is 4 years old.

In the past he had high level fever without problems.

It´s his third round with DMSA + ALA, after four rounds of DMSA only. He had

been tolerating well chelators, and the only side effect was insomnia caused

by ALA. He has 33 lbs and used to take 5mg DMSA and 5mg ALA, 3 / 4 hours

protocol, 3 days on and at least 5 days off. He is chemically sensitive

(doesn´t tolerate many foods and any oral vitamin supplement).

Yesterday morning we increased a bit his dosage to 7.5mg ALA and 7.5mg DMSA,

without any side effects. On the other hand, he has been having catarrh for

the last 2 weeks, but there was no other symptom of disease. His fever

started today, and his temperature was 37.5 ºC (a bit elevated) at 8:00 AM,

but we didn´t give any drug as it seemed not high enough. Then, we gave

DMSA+ ALA at 10:00 AM and he had the convultion at 10:30 AM.

We think his fever worsened during this period because he was hotter during

convultion.

We went to hospital and now he is OK, his fever is controled by a drug that

is given every 4 hours (after a while fever increases and then we give the

drug). We stopped chelation.

Would you know what caused the convultion?

What should we do now? Any biomedical assessment? Shall we change something

in chelation?

Thanks.

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Chelation causes a lot of oxidative stress (which depletes essential

fatty acids in the brain and directly causes convulsions as well as

indirectly through lowering EFA levels).

You really need to use antioxidants while chelating.

One of the MD's up this way thought she was doing " My " protocol when

she prescribed chelation but didn't Rx any antioxidants. Essentially

all her patients got worse on it. Once they got put on antioxidants

they all did better and tolerated chelation well.

3-4 hour use of ALA and DMSA isn't the ONLY thing to " my " chelation

protocol. It is simply the most often discussed thing. After all,

DAN! myself and most other people with a protocol all agree on the

need to use antioxidants so there isn't much need to discuss it.

Andy . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .

>

> My son had a convultion today (3rd chelation day), 30 minutes after

he had

> taken DMSA+ALA (he was already feverish at the time we gave

DMSA+ALA). His

> eyes got opened like frozen and he stayed unconsiously and without

breathing

> for some minutes. It was the first convultion in life and he is 4

years old.

> In the past he had high level fever without problems.

>

> It´s his third round with DMSA + ALA, after four rounds of DMSA

only. He had

> been tolerating well chelators, and the only side effect was

insomnia caused

> by ALA. He has 33 lbs and used to take 5mg DMSA and 5mg ALA, 3 / 4

hours

> protocol, 3 days on and at least 5 days off. He is chemically

sensitive

> (doesn´t tolerate many foods and any oral vitamin supplement).

>

> Yesterday morning we increased a bit his dosage to 7.5mg ALA and

7.5mg DMSA,

> without any side effects. On the other hand, he has been having

catarrh for

> the last 2 weeks, but there was no other symptom of disease. His

fever

> started today, and his temperature was 37.5 ºC (a bit elevated) at

8:00 AM,

> but we didn´t give any drug as it seemed not high enough. Then, we

gave

> DMSA+ ALA at 10:00 AM and he had the convultion at 10:30 AM.

> We think his fever worsened during this period because he was hotter

during

> convultion.

> We went to hospital and now he is OK, his fever is controled by a

drug that

> is given every 4 hours (after a while fever increases and then we

give the

> drug). We stopped chelation.

>

> Would you know what caused the convultion?

> What should we do now? Any biomedical assessment? Shall we change

something

> in chelation?

>

> Thanks.

>

>

>

>

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