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Posted on 08/24/2005 3:09:44 PM PDT by Born Conservative
A 5-year-old Monroeville boy died this week during a medical treatment that's being touted by some as a cure for autism.
The autistic boy died while receiving chelation -- an intravenous injection of a synthetic amino acid known as EDTA, for ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the practice only to treat heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. The treatment is becoming increasingly popular, though still controversial, for autism.
Police are investigating the boy's death, which occurred Tuesday morning in the office of Dr. Roy Kerry in Portersville.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Ping
Somebody's going to lose a license ...
(unless they find lead in the system).
EDTA...As I recall, we used that as a buffering agent in chem class. Well, something when we were doing quantitative analysis.
If they are treating autism with EDTA, they DESERVE to lose their license.
Sounds like a pretty extreme cure.
No more so than a certain popular pregnancy cure though I guess.
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Autistic kids' parents are notorious for seeking out quacks, from Robert Kennedy Jr, to this phony.
EDTA is FDA approved for pediatric use. It's highly unlikely the boy died from EDTA if they were watching his creatinine.
EDTA is FDA approved for pediatric use. It's highly unlikely the boy died from EDTA if they were watching his creatinine.
That is kind of a weird statement..why would you say this? I have a deaf daughter and I rememeber somebody asking me if I would look into craniosacral therapy. But still, why are autistic kids parents "notorious" for this?
SIDE EFFECTS
The following adverse effects have been associated with the use of edetate calcium disodium:
Body as a Whole: pain at intramuscular injection site, fever, chills, malaise, fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia.
Cardiovascular: hypotension, cardiac rhythm irregularities.
Renal: acute necrosis of proximal tubules (which may result in fatal nephrosis), infrequent changes in distal tubules and glomeruli.
Urinary: glycosuria, proteinuria, microscopic hematuria and large epithelial cells in urinary sediment.
Nervous System: tremors, headache, numbness, tingling.
Gastrointestinal: cheilosis, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, excessive thirst.
Hepatic: mild increases in SGOT and SGPT are common, and return to normal within 48 hours after cessation of therapy.
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic2/canaversenate_ad.htm
Just because it's approved for pediatric use, doesn't mean it isn't potentially deadly.
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Autistic kids' parents are notorious for seeking out quacks, from Robert Kennedy Jr, to this phony.
Because not eveybody blieves that autism exists.
It's all " a lack of discipline", or "mother's neglect" for some people.
Yep and if they truly met parents of children who are autistic, or had an autistic child themself - they would think differntly.
I don't think it's that as much as it is the debate over the causes of Autism; that's mainly where people differ.
Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/chelation.html
What exactly isn't potentially deadly? Sitting still?
EDTA chelation is extremely safe statistically. I am not denying EDTA could possibly be the cause, but it is unlikely.
The reason this is a story is because of the controversial "Evidence of Harm" mercury vaccination caused theory of autism.
I personally don't buy the mercury connection yet, but there is probably some research that should be pursued.
AQG is still in hiding from the cyber-stalking moonbats.
I'm going to do a little research on how exactly this "chelation therapy" is performed as a treatment for heavy-metal poisoning...I highly doubt that it's performed in an outpatient clinic.
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