Hair Test Results - Would You Please Comment

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Hello,

Would you please look into my 6.5-year-old son's hair test results from DDI and

let me know any comments that you might have. We are getting ready to start the

first round and we need to determine if he would be a good candidate for

chelation after receiving these results.

The counting rules show normal mineral transport and all of his Potentially

Toxic Elements are in the GREEN section. However, I need to add that he was on

cilantro tea for three months (8 tsp cilantro in 1 quart of water drank

throughout a day) and the three months ended about 1 month before the hair test

sample was taken. That was a big mistake because he regressed (difficulty

concentrating, worse attention, more spinning, also more anger). What if that

moved most of the mercury from his body into the brain?

Should we supplement iron? I've once heard that low iron may mean that there is

actually iron overload and all the iron supplemented goes into iron storage in

the soft tissues making things worse.

He has multiple food allergies and some environmental. These days he coughs very

often after he falls asleep and stops after we give him warm tea with honey. I

feel that he may need ACE †" is there anything in his test results that would

point to that need? He hasn't had eczema since we started GFCF. At 4.5 years he

was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and unfortunately it seems he's been

slowly getting worse with everything we tried. I wonder if chelation is what we

missed to try...

On the bottom, I will also include some of his blood test results that are on

the edge of the reference range in case someone thinks it might help. The blood

sample was collected about one month before the hair sample.

I would really appreciate if you can let me know your opinion. Thank you so much

for your time.

Renata

POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS

ELEMENT RESULT REFERENCE PERCENTILE

Aluminum 4.1 <8.0 green

Antimony 0.028 <0.066 green

Arsenic 0.058 <0.08 green

Barium 0.11 <0.75 green

Beryllium <0.01 <0.02 green

Bismuth 0.028 <2.0 green

Cadmium <0.009 <0.07 green

Lead 0.12 <1 green

Mercury 0.16 <0.4 green

Platinum <0.003 <0.005 green

Thallium <0.001 <0.002 green

Thorium <0.001 <0.002 green

Uranium 0.045 <0.06 green

Nickel 0.02 <0.2 green

Silver 0.01 <0.14 green

Tin 0.13 <0.3 green

Titanium 0.38 <0.7 green

Total Toxic Representation green (middle)

ESSENTIAL AND OTHER ELEMENTS

ELEMENT RESULT REFERENCE PERCENTILE

Calcium 262 160-500 green left

Magnesium 11 12-50 yellow left

Sodium 64 22-200 white

Potassium 160 12-140 yellow right

Copper 22 11-32 green right

Zinc 140 110-190 green left

Manganese 0.07 0.08-0.5 yellow left

Chromium 0.39 0.4-0.7 yellow left

Vanadium 0.045 0.025-0.1 green left

Molybdenum 0.066 0.04-0.09 green right

Boron 3.3 0.5-3.5 green right

Iodine 0.5 0.25-1.3 green left

Lithium 0.005 0.007-0.02 yellow left

Phosphorus 191 150-220 green right

Selenium 0.9 0.7-1.1 white

Strontium 0.44 0.21-2.1 green left

Sulfur 48600 44000-51000 green right

Cobalt 0.004 0.004-0.02 green-yellow border left

Iron 5.7 7-16 yellow left

Germanium 0.03 0.03-0.04 green-yellow border left

Rubidium 0.11 0.008-0.08 yellow right

Zirconium 0.024 0.06-0.07 yellow left

RATIOS

Ca/Mg 23.8 4-30

Ca/P 1.37 0.8-8

Na/K 0.4 0.5-10 out of range low

Zn/Cu 6.36 4-20

Zn/Cd >999 >800

BLOOD TEST RESULTS (only the ones close to the edge of the reference range)

Sodium 137 (135-146) low

Potassium 4.1 (3.8-5.1) low

CO2 22 (21-33) low

Globulin 2.2 (2.1-3.5) low

Albumin/Globulin 2.1 (1-2.1) high

Bilirubin 0.3 (0.2-0.8) low

D vitamin 17 (30-100) low out of range

WBC 5.9 (5-16) low

MCV 87.4 (73-87) high out of range

MCH 30.2 (24-30) high out of range

Platelet 194 (140-400) low

Neutrophils 2519 (1500-8500) low

Lymphocytes 2454 (2000-8000) low

Monocytes 389 (200-900) low

Eosinophils 531 (15-600) high

Basophils 6 (0-250) low

Ferritin 12 (10-105) low