lead, was Re: My 8 year old has regressed......

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...chuckling at the " infringing " part - this group rocks,

infringement & the resultant diverse answers totally rocks, imo

everyone is soooo different, that the more answers out there, the

better ...anyway, some comments below...

>

> , I think my boy has lead too. What testing is the most

> accurate? We got a DDI hair elements test and hair toxic metals

test

> and both indicate moderately high lead.

==Not really sure...My youngest " older " children had blood tests as

toddlers - with lead levels in the teens/upper teens, further testing

that year showed those coming down...That is the last testing they

had for lead. No hair tests done for older kids, just my migraine

girl. Lead is not so big an issue for her, most of her exposure

would have come from me I tend to extrapolate from that hair

test of hers, with older kids/myself, mostly did the hair test itself

for confirmation for " Other People " , as I was reasonably sure for my

own self that mercury & other tox's were definitely contributing &

needed to be addressed...Back to lead, we have lived in older houses

with chipping lead paint, pipes,etc. and have done as much preventive

stuff as I knew to do, over the years...I would limit exposure as

much as possible, chelate Andy style, and tailor the food/diet/supps

and such, yk? That is, if it were me, lololol...my reasoning, If I

am reasonably sure lead is a problem - most things that help with

lead are generally good on their own, adding more leafy greens comes

to mind (tho we now self limit those - working on the home gardening

angle, see if we can tolerate more that way ...anyway, things

like that..

We just had a blood

> test done too and none was detected. I don't trust the blood test,

> but wondering if hair is accurate. I also have the opportunity to

> get him a free bone density scan at Costco which I made an appt.

for,

> do you think this will be useful? Is it specifically the knees

they

> should look at?

===really?! that is rather coolish (in an argh-ish sort of way) that

knees might be more indicative of lead poisoning & makes sense

too..one of my lead kids has had extreme knee issues off & on (will

be pondering that one a tad .....but, unless there were

tentative/set plans to do something " iffy-ish " to target lead

poisoning itself, I am not sure I would put (my) kids thru that much

testing, yk?

>

> Sorry for infringing on your thread, Becky.

===still chuckling

wishing you the best answers

elizabeth