i did the cutler counting rules linked in Tanya's post above and in the following link that i picked up from the other active thread about hair test results
http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/HO...counting_rules
they are slightly different but from what i can see he passed both versions of these counting rules... can someone else double check please so i am sure that i am doing this right?
so if he is not toxic in mercury...
why did the chiro (using applied kinesiology) find him weakening to mercury a couple of weeks ago? I have really come to trust this technique and find it so useful so I have a hard time doubting it but maybe I should based on the above?
Just some background (and my possible theory). Ds and I had been on a candida protocol due to multiple food allergies and gi issues (including probiotics, anitfungals, vits, diet changes) We were doing great. Then he tested weak to mercury and I started to question our strategy. I came to find out (thanks to mamafish9) that my multi vit had some ingredients that mobilized mercury. Since I am bf ds it is possible that he was exposed through my milk. I did not know prior to taking this vit that this was a possibility and had no reason to think I had a mercury issue anyway (never had mercury fillings, very little fish) However, I realize it is possible to pick up mercury just from the environment in other ways. I would not have taken this vit if I had realized that there was a risk that I might mobilize mercury into my kid. I feel a bit peeved at my chiro for rec that multi vit and told her so and stated that bf moms should not be taking anything that might mobilize metals. She listened to my statement but did not really respond to it directly. Anyway, is it possible that he had just been exposed at that time and that he was actually able to process it out? Right away we stopped our protocol... He also had a severe allergic reaction at the same time that I sorted through eventually as sals (triggered most likely by a change in probiotic that included FOS). Somewhere along the line I think I read that when the liver is processing mercury it can not also process sals. he is now done reacting (no more itching, skin is healed sleeping like he normally does and behavior is just typical stubborn 2 year old
and not "crazy man") and he is tolerating some sals, though no more FOS for him. btw, he was tested again last weekend by same chiro and was not
as weakened by the mercury. Phew! Thanks for reading all of that... does any of this make sense to anybody else but me? sorry for typos, i have been nursing and fending off flying footballs while trying to get this post written in a somewhat coherant manner
please look at the hair test results and make sure i am counting right and if anything else pops up. i am also worried about the aluminum and tin and not sure how that all might fit into this, and low calcium? dh wants to supp calcium but i think that might not be great bc it could interfere with mag?
jen
and just tonight he was holding it (he has grown taller recently and can reach things up higher) and i told him to give it to me because it might make him sick. he said, "no, mommy it makes me happy!" classic example of a 2 year old whose wants are not his needs! 
