Autistic Children Clinically Proven Merc

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Tue, 04-17-2007 - 9:18am

Autistic Children Clinically Proven Mercury Poisoned

Recent peer-reviewed scientific/medical studies by Nataf et al. (2006) and by Geier and Geier (2006) leave little doubt that many autistic children are indeed mercury poisoned. These studies utilized urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess the body-burden and magnitude of physiological effects of mercury in children.

UPPA is a highly accurate, inexpensive, non-invasive, and routinely available method for estimating body-burden and toxicity of mercury. Numerous peer-reviewed scientific/medical papers published over the past 40 years, many of them supported by the US NIH, have proven the validity of using UPPA to identify mercury poisoning.

UPPA profiling, unlike attempts to directly measure mercury in the blood, urine or feces, or in tissues (e.g., hair and nail), is a proven indirect method for assessing mercury toxicity.

Using UPPA, Nataf et al. (2006) studied the urinary porphyrin patterns in French children using the results reported by Laboratoire Philippe Auguste. Similarly, Geier and Geier (2006) studied the patterns in US children using the results reported by the Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp).

Both published studies:

-- Clearly demonstrated that non-chelated autistic children had porphyrin patterns indicative of clinical mercury toxicity, while normal children and normal sibling controls did not.

-- Found that the more severely affected the ASD children were the higher their evidence of mercury toxicity.

-- Established that treating autistic children with chelating agents resulted in lower mercury-specific urinary porphyrins, which tracked the apparent reduction in mercury body-burden in these children.

Many other physicians who take care of ASD patients have ordered UPPA testing and confirmed the observations made by Nataf et al. (2006) and Geier and Geier (2006).

Thus, urinary porphyrin profile testing is being successfully used to:

-- Demonstrate the role of mercury in populations of autistic children,

-- Identify those children and adults who are mercury poisoned, and

-- Track the progress of the removal of mercury from mercury-poisoned individuals.

For the past several years, there has been a raging controversy as to whether or not the mercury in medicines, especially in vaccines, has caused the dramatic rise in the rate of children diagnosed with an ASD. Many experts have insisted ASDs are caused by some yet-to-be-identified genetic cause. A paper recently published in Nature Genetics described the results of multi-million-dollar genetics study (which studied a thousand-plus families with at least two autistic children using in-depth genetic screening). Tellingly, the authors reported, "None of our linkage results can be interpreted as 'statistically significant'…"(The Autism Genome Project Consortium, 2007). This makes it unlikely that purely genetic aberrations are the root cause of most ASD cases.

With the current porphyrin study results, public health officials should now publicly admit what they have been saying in their private transcripts and memos all along: Mercury from Thimerosal-containing vaccines and other medicines has been a major cause of ASD cases, which, according to recent CDC estimates (CDC 2007), may exceed a rate of one in 94 children (in NJ).

Today, any healthcare provider or parent can easily confirm whether a non-chelated autistic child is mercury poisoned by having UPPA testing run at LabCorp (CLIA-certified, test#120980) or Laboratoire Philippe Auguste (ISO-certified, 119 Philippe Auguste Avenue, Paris, France 75011).

CoMeD's web site, www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org contains:

-- Further information on the two study laboratories conducting these tests,

-- Full copies of the Nataf et al. (2006) and Geier and Geier (2006) papers, and

-- Some of the many published papers validating the UPPA test.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=67953&nfid=rssfeeds

Samantha
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Tue, 04-17-2007 - 7:35pm
My dd just came home from middle school yesterday, telling me that the science teacher had told the class about this neat thing you can do with mercury. I don't remember exactly, but it was something about how mercury balls up, and you can blow it around the room on the floor, etc. I was aghast! Even without the AS concerns, I thought most people know better -- especially a science teacher -- than to play with mercury! My AS kids, particularly, don't need to be taught how to play with mercury! I had to tell dd that the teacher probably didn't think any students could actually get ahold of mercury and that as fun as it might be to play with it, that it's a dangerous enough chemical that when there are spills, places are shut down for de-tox. I can just imagine kids trying to find an old glass thermometer to try this teacher's experiments. Grrrr!
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Tue, 04-17-2007 - 7:49pm

Samantha,


Thank you for posting this. As you know, I strongly suspect mercury was a factor the equation that is Peter.


I am going to talk to his Ped about ordering this test.


-Paula

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Wed, 04-18-2007 - 9:04am

Paula,

Your welcome. I hesitated about posting it honestly. Its such a debated topic and I don't want to debate or start one. But its what so many parents have been waiting for, peer reviewed studies.

I haven't done the test but a friend of mine has. She was alarmed at how high her son's mercury was. You can Send for the test kit at www.labbio.net. You have to send the pee to Paris. It costs about $115 or so plus shipping. They will e-mail results in several weeks to a month, I'm told.

I may ask dh if we can order this test for the kids too. We are getting ready to order a bunch of other ones. We have done a little chelating to remove the mercury and other metals so it'd be interesting to see if it worked or how much is left.

Samantha

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Wed, 04-18-2007 - 5:28pm

Was anybody else bothered by the Laboratoire Philippe Auguste website? I'm not sure what I was expecting, but perhaps something a little more professional looking? Something that at least resembled that of the medical center websites I've visited?

Maybe it's my marketing background, but I went there with honest interest in their product (because I believe with all my heart that the Europeans have out researched the Americans in the field of autism), and left thinking it looked like a high school freshman had thrown their website up in a couple of hours.

Just curious if anybody felt the same way I did.

Amy

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 8:40pm

Is your marketing background european? I've been to Paris and I actually think this looks alot like some of the stuff I've seen over there in the way of ads. Its really different and many of the ads we were exposed to were not very impressive. They were just "names". But you do have to be very careful on the internet.

Its amazing how many people travel to hospitals outside our USA. They go because they don't have the FDA guidelines. Many breakthrough discoveries and treatments are not done in the US because of FDA guidelines.

Its amazing to me how the FDA didn't care enough about our kids to keep mercury out of their vaccines.

I actually think the website is appropriate for the services this lab is trying to offer. I'm much more curious to see if the same tests can be performed here in the US though.

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Sun, 04-22-2007 - 10:56pm

I'm hardly an expert on European culture...that's what our lovely Irish ladies are for...right Paula and Dee? But I did spend some time traveling to several European cities(including Paris) in the early 90's.

To answer your question...my marketing experience is based in the US. However, I would actually call my exposure "international" as the company I was employed by did a great deal of work for Caterpillar, Inc. (I live in Peoria, IL which is home to the Caterpillar world headquarters.) Many of the marketing pieces we developed/designed for them (including their 2003 & 2004 annual reports) were distributed throughout the world, and because of such, we spent a great deal of time researching the marketing trends of not only Europe, but also Asia, Australia, etc. At no time during our research did we ever come across anything as "sophomoric" as this website.

For the record, my comment had nothing to do with the product their were promoting. I was just commenting that I would not be willing to place an online order for any product from from any company if their website was as unprofessional as that one. Nor was I discouraging anybody from ordering online products from Europe, or any other continent for that matter. (Heck, I spend a small fortune in shipping three times a year ordering my bras online from a company in the U.K.!)

And regardless of the "mercury issue", I am extremely grateful for the FDA. While no government organization is perfect, I strongly prefer their approach over the rather frightening alternative of having "snake oil salesmen" make unresearched/unproven claims regarding a products safety and/or efficacy.

Amy

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Wed, 04-25-2007 - 5:23am

Oh my. I'm sorry I wasn't trying to insult you. I was just trying to point out that other countries don't think the way we do. I work in a medical office and I have watched patients suffer because of FDA guidelines that are rediculous. I just think its cool that other countries are willing to step up for autism research. (not saying you don't):).

I'm glad that we have some control because we can't have crackpots out there selling "magic pills". But really they do even with the FDA (especially herbal and diet pills without controls or FDA regs).

Anyways, sorry again. I was only trying to point out that Europe has some really cool treatments and medicine that we can't get over here. I watched a special about hospitals that are the biggest in the world and specialties that patients from all over travel to just for treatments.

I don't know if I would send my kids pee off in the mail anywhere based on any website or ad anyways. I'm one to check into stuff first. But your warning to others is a good one.

take care