Re: - Nicola, your son's hair test -

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thanks for all your comments, which are quite reassuring. I had

imagined worse!!

I think I will do a summer of chelation with DMSA and ALA, to see what

improvement it brings. His speech is my main concern, and his adrenals

obviously. He is set up for a life of chronic fatigue.

I am aware of the autism-mercury list, but as I say, he is normal, and

not autistic in any way. I will have a hard job to justify chelating

him to everyone. It's clear cut with autistic kids, and there is

little to lose, and many gains to make. I am anxious about making him

worse somehow.

I will try the supplements advice you suggest.

Many thanks

Nicola

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> thanks for all your comments, which are quite reassuring. I had

> imagined worse!!

Dean is right (and thanks Dean, for catching that!), you do meet

counting rule 5, being 1 short on two rules. My apologies - my

brain seems to be faltering.

> I think I will do a summer of chelation with DMSA and ALA, to see what

> improvement it brings. His speech is my main concern, and his adrenals

> obviously. He is set up for a life of chronic fatigue.

As I just read on another list, belief is a powerful thing.

If you believe that, it may just happen.

You are aware of his issues and learning what you can do to help

him. Lots of kids get turned around, sometimes with simple things,

such as enzymes or a particular supplement they really need, sometimes

with chelation. Believe in the best possible outcome and it may just

happen. Belief is of course, not enough, but it really does help.

> I am aware of the autism-mercury list, but as I say, he is normal, and

> not autistic in any way. I will have a hard job to justify chelating

> him to everyone. It's clear cut with autistic kids, and there is

> little to lose, and many gains to make. I am anxious about making him

> worse somehow.

There are parents on that list chelating kids who don't have an ASD

diagnosis. You don't need to justify anything - he has symptoms that

suggest toxicity and chelation is well worth trying.

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> I will try the supplements advice you suggest.

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> Many thanks

> Nicola

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----- Original Message -----

From: Nicola

I think I will do a summer of chelation with DMSA and ALA, to see what

improvement it brings. His speech is my main concern, and his adrenals

obviously. He is set up for a life of chronic fatigue.

I am aware of the autism-mercury list, but as I say, he is normal, and

not autistic in any way. I will have a hard job to justify chelating

him to everyone. It's clear cut with autistic kids, and there is

little to lose, and many gains to make. I am anxious about making him

worse somehow.

===>Hi Nicola,

Ours was never dx'd with autism or pdd-nos, just ADHD and we have done 6 hair

tests, each one normal but chelation was helpful for all her symptoms. And yes,

there was a lot of concern about making her worse as there is for any child

whose parents are considering chelation.

To answer an earlier question you asked concerning how many mercury toxic kids

are there....many, many of them, I dare say most. My dgd started kindergarten

this year. I am a psychologist and had been asked to consult on the case of a

little ADHD boy. I had not been in a classroom for probably 15 years and was

shocked at what I found.

I could only identify 8 out of the 23 kids in her class without some kind of

developmental delay be it; adhd, dyslexia, fine motor delay, speech articulation

problems,etc. One little girl, 5, constantly complained that the other kids were

looking at her (arsenic toxicity likely) And we live in the middle of Amish

country so 7 out of the 8 unaffected kids were Amish and not vaccinated and I

would give anything to know if the 8th child was vaccinated. I'm betting he

wasn't.

Also, I am sure you didn't mean anything by it, but be careful in making

statements such as " parents with autistic kids have little to lose " . Each child,

regardless of the severity of Autism is as precious to their parents as your

child is to you. We don't decide the worth of a child by the presence of lack of

his or her handicaps. All children have their strengths and weaknesses and

Autistic children are often extremely gifted, more so than " normal " children.

We don't assume ours is more valuable because she has always had perfectly

articulated speech, is in kindergarten but has math and reading skills at the

7th grade level. Like all, we didn't pick her and are just trying to help her

reach her potential.

As I said I am sure you meant no harm but we have to be cautious in our

language.

Best wishes,