Re: ----Mom and Dad's hair tests----lead

May 16, 2008

I really doubt the homeopathy had anything to do with the increase in

lead. Typically, through detox, lead will come down - it certainly

doesn't soar by a factor of 14.

Get those lead test swabs that I mentioned to you and go around checking

things. I think the renovations may well be the issue. Their house is

also old, so you will expect that any stirring up of dust will have had

the effect of exposing them.

While you are dealing with this, make sure to increase their calcium

intake, and decrease any intake of vitamin D - so in particular, make

sure they are covered when they are in the sun. (Serious cases of lead

poisoning go up in the summer.)

Dave.

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Posted by: " carriesuvajdzic " carriesuvajdzic@...

< Thu May 15, 2008 9:10 pm (PDT)

Hi,

As far as my dad goes I pretty much figured out where the lead came

from: in 2006 he was taking apart an old house and stripping the paint

off of the old boards to reuse the wood. Well, I guess I haven't

actually gone out and checked the paint chips but that is the best

guess. He did some renovation on their current house (also old--turn

of the last century) around the time of my mom's second hair test,

too, pretty much removing a wing of their house and putting those

stripped boards back in. I guess it's possible that even though the

paint was stripped off of them and they were varnished he managed to

get lead into their house, too, but I'm still not sure because the

stripping and varnishing were done offsite. Or maybe he stirred up

some lead dust somehow when he knocked down the old stuff...I don't know.

Do you not think it is likely that somehow the homeopathic medicine

she was taking chelated some old lead? That was what my assumption

was, but now I'm worried there is some huge exposure risk hiding in

her house somewhere Better to know about it, though, right? I'm

going to visit them with my kids in another month and I already

ordered the lead tests for soil and surfaces.

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