Mercury levels testing and treatment.

[Hensfunny]

DD has autism and looking into getting her mercury levels tested and treated if needed. Is there clinic/hospital within the UK that will do this? I think there was a hospital that treats children with AS in London, but it was 2 years ago I heard this and can't remember the name.

Has anyone got any experience with this? Anything we can do from home?

please don't, you haven't caused offense.... Just someone to post slightly xenophobic come backs.

OP if you are still thinking of this netmums has a big following. you might find people more intune with you there.

We have done lots of therapies over the years (brainwave, AIT, TH etc)
and I'm always interested to hear about anything and everything regarding AS but I would never to anything which would put DD in danger. I will be reading up about it but I would only do it if it's safe.

Thanks pirate

For anyone wishing to investigate the causes of autism or the effectiveness of therapies etc I recommend as a start a booklet produced by Autism West Midlands on the "Good and Bad Science of Autism". It is depressing reading if you are looking for a magic solution but does evaluate well the research that has been carried out recently & explains (hopefully accessible to non-scientists) why some research is flawed.

shop.autismwestmidlands.org.uk/products/the-good-bad-science-of-autism

It is quite short but only costs £3.00 at the moment.

It's £3.00 on that website or "£2,499.50" plus £2.80 postage second hand on amazon.

I'm not joking i just checked.

I think I would have to revise my recommendation at that price!!!!

It makes you wonder what the people selling it think they are doing?

polter I'm not going anywhere but have asked for the thread to be deleted.

DD is 8 and has a diagnosis of ASD and medical problems. She's doing well and has changed so much over the years, very proud of all her achievements.

Apologies to anyone who I have offended by my slightly xenophobic comments and my comment about the HFA children.

polter it is not to be taken lightly, but I know many parents who insist IV chelation is the simple most effective intervention they have done.

Offcourse it is not available in the UK so the OP has to consider other options, but like I said I don't think this is the place for this discussion.

The OP will hopefully find people who are like minded and have considered and debated this in a more thoughtful way than I have and can provide answers to her.

For, historically, I (and many others here) do have children who are severely affected by autism. I'd still want some bloody robust evidence before I ever went injecting them with EDTA, vinegar, garlic or anything else.

A lack of evidence base doesn't make a "treatment" more up to date. It just makes it quackery, much of the time.

For is ftr, btw.

Apologies to anyone who I have offended by my slightly xenophobic comments and my comment about the HFA children.

It's okay, you are trying your best to help your child and felt the need to defend what you believe in. I have no doubt that there have been many times I've done similar and gone too far with my comments, { probably will again at some point in the future too.

While I do not want to make this into a thread about right and wrong, I do believe that the second poster really addressed part of the issue. I feel as though the research behind many of these claims has been discredited as less than stellar with a rather large bias as well.

Hi all,
just to confirm that Hensfunny did ask for this thread to be deleted as she feared she had caused offence, and we refused on the grounds that it doesn't break any of our guidelines and we don't like deleting threads for no particular reason.
As you all were.