've some questions regarding chelation as an alternative treatment for autistics.

1. How possible is it to get a heavy metal level test from a laboratory unrelated to anything DAN! or Generation Rescue. It often sounds like most of the tests are sent to Laboratorie Philippe Auguste in Paris, France.


*****the test sent to Lab Phil Aug is a urine porphyrins test. I believe there is a lab in the US that does the test. You could ask on the autism-mercury yahoo group. Another test to use is a DDI hair elements test and apply Andy Cutler's counting rules to determine probability of mercury poisoning.


2. Regarding Laboratorie Philippe Auguste, do they market alternative treatments for cardiovascular disease? Have they ever been related to marketting of chelation as an alternative treatment for cardiovascular disease?


*****I don't know




3. Have autistics who have received chelation ever had anything specific to their development that is not seen in autistics who have not received chelation?


****If they are chelated properly 75% get better ie lose their diagnosis.





4. Is it commonly accepted in the medical community that autistics don't excrete heavy metals in the same levels as others do?



****It is not commonly accepted in the medical community but there is a study out that showed that autistics were not excreting metals into hair as much as normal kids.