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Originally Posted by Juniper Gerrie-Sue  Okay, read the post on low mercury levels and the cause being that it isn't being excreted well. That makes sense.
Jack has made huge improvements on these supplements, not sure if it's from gut healing or from gentle chelating affects...his speech/language has improved, anxiety levels down, etc.
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For my kids, mood and behavior improvements were due to a decrease in circulating toxins. It's not chelation, that's pulling metals out of tissues, it's just reducing what's floating around on a day-to-day basis. My son stopped banging his head on the wall because of this, it was different stuff with DD. That's a reasonable guess as to what you're seeing. Improved gut health can do the same things--less food fragments leaking into the bloodstream, fewer weird stresses--I don't know how to describe it well, but I've seen DS do odd things when he's got a diarrheal illness, something about messed up gut function itself can also be involved. Maybe both in your case.
I didn't see anything you listed that looked like a mobilizer, which is good. It's good to add in things that mobilize in a deliberate, planned manner.
Did you list the amino acids?
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Originally Posted by Juniper Gerrie-Sue Thank you for your responses!!
Okay, I also forgot to mention that we do regular epsom baths (almost nightly) and I supp with CLO. Also, his multi doesn't contain copper and it's from Lee Silsby and says it's corn/soy/every other allergen free. I give Jack a single dose of buffered magnesium glycinate powder each night.
We did supp B12 for a while but our naturopathic doctor did a blood test checking for methylation issues and said it wasn't a problem.
You could check B12 blood levels, my understanding is that you want to be in the top third of the ref range. If you have that many IgE allergies, I'd say yeah, methylation isn't great, but sometimes balancing it can be tricky. Mamafish knows more about that than I do, for us, methylation-type supps either help or do nothing, I've never seen a bad reaction. B12, in some form, is very common with related health issues, but you may want to use a hydroxycobalamin form.
I'm also having him look at these results and will see what he says. He does a urine test but it requires drinking a chelator first and he's always said getting it down Jack would be near impossible, that's why I ordered the hair test on my own.
Thank you again, so much! It helps to not feel so alone on this.
mamafish - what methods are you using to pull antimony levels from your son? Did you notice differences in behavior and/or physical well being by doing so?
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If you consider a provoked challenge test (drink a chelator first, then collect urine), educate yourself on the risks and benefits. I wouldn't do that for myself or my kids, I think you've got a good start on the info you need to go forward with this and with symptoms.
re: source of mercury... Depending on the person, just a little is enough to do a lot of damage, but for other folks, they can have a mouthful of amalgam and not have issues. So, what's your health history? I had stuff like anxiety, depression, thyroid issues, general fatigue, um, seasonal allergies, stuff like that. Started happening after my amalgams were placed in my pre-teen years. I'm one of those people that builds up mercury in my body, and the kids grew in me, so that's their route of exposure. Extra stresses--life stresses, physical stresses like illness or conditions like celiac--hasten the process in those susceptible--well, really, I think they hasten any health problems that a person is prone to, it's just that for me, it was metals.
With the health problems you're seeing in your son, and the hair test results you've gotten, I think reading about heavy metal chelation would be the right next step. Kenneth Bock's Healing the New Childhood Epidemics is a good book, there are others. Online forums help. I prefer Andy Cutler-style oral chelation, frequent low dose, so the autism-mercury yahoo group is one I've done some reading on.
It's important to educate yourself. Not all HCPs are really as good with heavy metals as they think they are. I lucked into one, it was only later that I realized that there's a lot of sub-par advice out there, it's really a buyer-beware situation. Your HCP may be great, but it's important to understand what's going on, the risks and benefits.
There's a thread here at MDC that helped me get my bearings a couple years ago....
http://mothering.com/discussions/sho...ight=chelating
It's long, not to be read all in one sitting, but it helped me.
These are for my 3 1/2 year old son. He has never been vaccinated other than a vit k shot at birth. He has multiple allergies and we are treating him through a naturopathic dr with enzymes, amino acid blend, and some other gut healing strategies. Let me know if you need more info! Thank you !!!
. In a healthy, well methylating person, antimony and arsenic clear the body easily via methylation, so for me, any buildup of those two (without big exposures) is a big warning flag that methylation is slow/malfunctioning.
I'm hyper aware of chemical smells etc, most probably wouldn't notice it or are used to it.
