Hair Test Interpretation: Finding Hidden Toxicities
by Andrew Hall
Cutler,
PhD, PE
© 2004, 2008, 2009
Andrew Hall
Cutler
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Standard medical
textbooks point out the need to check for heavy metal problems in
children with
developmental disorders. For
example, Clinical Toxicology, Ford, first edition,
2001: “Chronic
lead poisoning should be considered in the differential diagnosis of
any child
with neurocognitive deficitsattentional impairment, or developmental
delay.”
Textbooks also point out
that
despite what is in essence an advertising and public relations campaign
by the
makers and users of childhood vaccines there really is no reason to
consider
them proven safe.
Child Neurology, sixth edition, 2000,
John Menkes,
editor. From Chapter 16, Disorders
of Mental Development, section on Autism, p. 1172, by Marcel
Kinsbourne: "The increase in
the number of children diagnosed with autism is so
spectacular, that it is unlikely to be merely because health
care workers are paying greater attention to this condition. Despite
apparent
links between measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) immunizations and
autism,
opposed by energetic disclaimers, the definitive epidemiologic study
that would
distinguish causation, a rare inordinate susceptibility, from chance
association has not been performed."
Recent research
demonstrates that
heavy metal problems are quite common in children – so it is important
to check
for them early on. The US
Government’s Centers for Disease Control periodically conducts
studies to determine what
toxic exposure members of the general population have.
The 2003 study found that 10% of
children and 10% of women of childbearing age had mercury levels above
safe
limits. They also found that 2.2%
of children had lead above safe levels.
This is down from 4% of children who had too much lead in
similar
studies 20-30 years ago.
...
A hair test (and
consideration of
the individual child’s history and situation) seems like a reasonable
way to
screen children with developmental disorders for heavy metals. As you can see from the tests below,
when people do get hair tests on their impaired children heavy metal
problems
often turn up! While genetically
based autism and related conditions are often presumed to be completely
unresponsive to medical treatment, heavy metal problems are easily
treated and
children with them show dramatic improvement in their
neurodevelopmental status
on detox.
...
A pretty obvious case
where
screening for heavy metal exposure would be appropriate is an autistic
little
girl who has no known risk factors, no family history suggestive of any
genetic
issues, and whom the pediatrician thinks is a textbook case. This little girl’s hair test is on the
next page.
...
This hair test suggests
that the
girl’s autism is a consequence of mercury intoxication.
Chelation led to improvement in her
autistic symptoms, confirming this.
...
At about the same time as
the sister1 was being evaluated, her younger
brother
began to exhibit problems. He had
shown normal development for the first 16-18 months, then regressed
into
autism. At age 6 this boy had no expressive language.
He had never been able to say a single word.
It was the speech therapist’s
impression that he did try to say some words but was unable to
pronounce them
well enough that even his mother could figure it out.
...
The brother received far
more
vaccinations than the sister and they all contained mercury as a
preservative
(in the form of thimerosal). Since
his body holds onto mercury unusually well this apparently was enough,
when
combined with whatever unknown exposures he may have been receiving
from other
sources, to make him autistic.
Based on these test
results the
parents chose to detoxify their children through chelation.
...
Despite having no
expressive
language at all at age 6, by age 8, after 61 weekend rounds of
chelation, he
was articulate, normally expressive for his age, and took part in his
second
grade class’ stage production, singing and participating so well that
he was
indistinguishable from the other children much to the amazement of his
parents,
teachers, and other children’s parents who had known him in
Kindergarten and
first grade.
After 61 rounds of
chelation this
autistic boy is far from cured, but has undergone dramatic improvement
and
continues to improve with further chelation. If
he had continued on in the state he was in at age 6, he
would have been institutionalized for life as an adult because he
couldn’t even
make his needs known, much less take care of himself.
Now, at age 8, even if no further progress occurs, he will
likely grow up to be able to live independently, hold a job and take
care of
himself, a dramatic improvement in his quality of life.
The progress reasonably expected on
further chelation should enhance his quality of life much more in terms
of
future health, happiness, social relationships, educational
opportunities and
employment options.
1)
A
different girl than the one mentioned above.
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