Hi Lynn
Welcome to the forum & sorry for the late reply. I didn’t totally understand your post, are you chelating yourself or your daughter or are you just researching things, trying to figure out what to do and who to believe?
Re DMPS. This is a good chelator of mercury, it binds strongly to mercury and escorts it out of the body. It does NOT cross the blood brain barrier (BBB) so will NOT chelate mercury from the brain. ALA is the only chelator that crosses the BBB and removes mercury from the brain.
Is DMPS safe….yes and no.
Yes - It is safe IF taken correctly at the appropriate dosage and the appropriate timings.
If the dose is too high, you mobilise too much mercury, too much is redistributed around the body, symptoms and side effects are nasty and can cause irreversible problems. The bigger the dose the bigger the mobilisation of mercury and the bigger the problems.
DMPS last 6-8 hours in the blood stream. After 6-8 hours it runs out and the mobilised mercury does not have any DMPS to hang on to, so it redistributes around the body. If you take DMPS every 6-8 hours, it does not run out and the DMPS is continually holding on to the merc and being excreted. When you stop taking the DMPS, it runs out and there is some redistubution, which is why you must only take low doses. If you take low doses of dmps for 3 days every 6-8 hours, you will have one redistribution event at the end when you finish. If you take infrequent doses, like one a day, every day for a week you will get lots of redistribution events. The higher the dose the larger a problem.
NO – DMPS is unsafe if taken in high dosages and infrequently and/or both.
DMPS IV uses large doses of the chelator infrequently…..which means it is unsafe method of chelation.
Some people do just fine on the DMPS IV chelation protocols, but some people get really seriously properly hurt, like it takes years to recover from one bad round…..it is for this reason that it is unsafe. It is true not everyone gets hurt, but some do get badly hurt and you have no idea if you will be lucky or unlucky until it is too late.
For this reason safely should be your first concern.
Luckily there is a protocol with a proven track record, that does not seriously screw people up. it’s called the Cutler protocol and it uses low doses of chelators taken very frequently.
I am on this protocol and it is helping me and I have not been hurt from it.
You should buy “Amalgam illness” by Andrew Cutler…it explains all in great detail. Will be the best $35 you can ever spend on mercury chelation.
http://home.earthlink.net/~moriam/Any questions……………..fire away.
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