Questions re: hair test results

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Hi. I am new to the group. I am a member of the autism-mercury group

as well. I just received my 3 year old son's Doctor's Data hair test

results in the mail. My son has PDD. I posted the results in the

files section of the autism-mercury site under testpage1.jpg hair test

results, for help with interpretation. Should I post them here as well?

I went to Moria's site and tried to familiarize myself with the

counting rules. As I applied them, my son does not seem to meet any

of the rules. Step one: 11, Step two: 1, and step three: 14. He has

high calcium and low lithium, however. His calcium and magnesium are

high (although I do supplement a lot with these), but his sodium and

potassium do not seem overly low to me. Nor are all of his numbers

low. They seem to be scattered with as many low as high or average.

His mineral transport seems to be all over the place. His Metametrix

urine porphyrin test stated that lead and arsenic were indicated, but

not mercury, which the hair test seems to confirm, at least insofar as

mercury is concerned.

My question is this, if he cannot excrete metals and has autism, why

would lead and arsenic be present and not mercury? How could that be?

Or is it possible that mercury has left his body, but is still present

in his brain doing damage?His last exposure was a flu vaccine at 18

months. How does one proceed with chelation in the presence of such

results? Do we start out with DMSA (as our DAN wants to do)to get the

lead out? Even if we proceed on the assumption that there is no

mercury, isn't ALA necessary to chelate arsenic? I am insisting on the

Cutler protocol with our doctor, who said fine. However, he is

insisting on the challenge test nonsense, and I said no way. Are the

hair and urine porphyrin tests dispositive enough to proceed with

chelation?

How do you find out what is coming out during chelation? Our doctor

wants to do Urine Toxic Metal tests, after a urine catch, taken after

starting the chelator. From the protocol, I gather that this is not

the preferred method, although I do not entirely understand why. I see

that further hair tests are a recommended method, which makes sense.

However, as to urine, I see that 24 hour tests are preferred. Does

this give a more complete picture of what is coming out? Also, this is

a daunting prospect with a non potty trained toddler. Have people

successfully been able to do this with young kids, and if so, how?

I have been trying to read all I can before posting any questions, but

I do not always know where to look, or candidly understand a lot of

the scientific underpinnings of Andy's book. I have no science

background, so I get mired in the details sometimes.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks. Irene

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Irene - response on AM.

Dave.

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Posted by: " iflow97 " iflow97@... iflow97

Mon May 26, 2008 6:58 pm (PDT)

Hi. I am new to the group. I am a member of the autism-mercury group

as well. I just received my 3 year old son's Doctor's Data hair test

results in the mail. My son has PDD. I posted the results in the

files section of the autism-mercury site under testpage1.jpg hair test

results, for help with interpretation. Should I post them here as well?