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To: TobagoJack who wrote (60784)	3/8/2005 2:47:34 AM
From: Taikun	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, The recent photos of your daughter prove you have the cutest little girl. Thank goodness for her Mommy's good looks! Every three days we give our 2yr old 50mg of DMSA followed by pure (no alcohol) Cilantro drops. Our naturopathic Doctor eatingalive.com had prescribed them and I thought it was worth a try, but now I think differently after reading this article in the WSJ. (DMPSA is also mentioned, but that is a little stronger). With infants, our Naturopath recommends 6 months of DMSA a year, starting after shots are received. (The annual flu shot has thimerosol in it), but infants can need a break as the DMSA can remove some minerals along with the heavy metals. So far our duaghter has been totally fine. FWIW... D Excerpt from WSJ: There are many medications used for chelation. Some, such as DMSA – a chemical compound made by a variety of manufacturers including Epochem Co. in Shanghai -- are FDA-approved for other treatments including lead poisoning. Doctors who prescribe these to treat autism are using them off-label, which is allowed for already-approved medications. Others aren't FDA-approved. But pharmacists can compound them for individual use at a physician's request. The drugs can be given in several ways, as creams, pills or via shots or intravenous infusions. Regimens vary in frequency, dosage and length of treatment. Before starting chelation, patients undergo testing to measure their exposure to heavy metals. Doctors disagree on the best way of testing metal exposure. Options include hair, urine and blood tests. Critics say these tests can have high false-positive rates. The Autism Research Institute supports the use of a so-called provocation test, which involves giving a chelating agent followed by urine or stool collection to see whether heavy metals were excreted. bittersweetfarms.org

To: TobagoJack who wrote (60784)	3/8/2005 5:04:57 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<but stopped the minute mom reappeared> I think is a sign she loves ice cream and she stopped only when the ice cream was in sight. :-)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (60784)	3/8/2005 12:40:01 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

Awww, what a cutie-pie! :) <EOM>

To: TobagoJack who wrote (60784)	3/8/2005 1:16:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<another US buddy's entire family is apparently suffering from lead poisoning, and is undergoing some detoxification treatment; i would say the trend is worrisome, and should any company be found to be responsible in some sense, its shareholders will be taken to the cleaners.> The 20th century was a shambles, with lead everywhere, mercury in our teeth and elsewhere, dietary deficiencies galore, pollution the norm, wars pandemic. Simply avoiding the neurotoxins will result in a 10 point IQ jump. Adding decent nutrition, with vitamins, will add another 10 points. The Flynn Effect is easy to understand. With 6 billion healthy people [assuming H5N1 doesn't cull us] instead of 2 billion warring, poisoned, under-nutritionalized rural hillbillies, the 21st century should be phenomenal. I used to warn BP that the lead in petrol was causing an average IQ deficit of 0.25. That doesn't sound much since people have 100 of them, but it's the last few which matter and the economic value of an IQ point in a wealthy country is about $50,000. If one could have the baby at IQ 100 and then buy extra IQ points at $50,000 each, how many would you buy for Ai Li? Imagine an IQ of 150 instead of 100. That would cost $2.5 million. Hmmm, most people couldn't afford that, but maybe the bank would give a loan because smart people produce great value and $2.5 million isn't a lot these days. It's a lot easier to pass exams and do well with a smarter brain than more boring homework. Go surfing and pull out a bigger brain for exams! That's what I'd have liked to have done, but was too dumb and too poisoned. You can see that IQ points are worth something like $50,000. So losing quarter of an IQ point due to lead poisoning from petrol [there are many other sources too] costs something like $10,000. The lead in petrol didn't produce anywhere near than much economic value per person. Somebody should be sued. I used to warn BP Oil that there were potential enormous class action suits in the USA [BP bought Sohio, making the whole corporation liable, I think, though am legally ignorant]. How can a whole family get lead-poisoning these days? Paint on a house? Roll on the 21st century. Mqurice