Posted on 01/09/2006 6:48:24 AM PST by Born Conservative
A new ruling that a controversial drug therapy for autistic children was responsible for the death of a 5-year-old Monroeville boy is likely to intensify debates about the treatment's safety and effectiveness.
The Butler County Coroner's Office ruled that Abubakar Nadama suffered cardiac arrest because of an injection of EDTA, a chelation therapy drug administered to him in October by Dr. Roy E. Kerry at the Advanced Integrative Medicine Center in Portersville.
Chelation treatment is designed to rid the body of heavy metals. Therapy supporters believe autism can be caused by heavy metal toxicity, particularly from mercury once used in a preservative in childhood vaccinations.
That assertion has been refuted scientifically, said Dr. Scott Myers, an autism expert who specializes in neurodevelopmental pediatrics at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Montour County. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved chelation for treatment of heavy metal poisoning, but not to treat autism.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Note that Dr. Kerry is an Ear Nose and Throat doctor.
That "chelation theraphy" is a bunch of voodoo crapola. I can remember that stuff coming up back in the eighties..sheesh. Poor kid with goofy parents.
I thought chelation was debunked as snake oil years ago?....no?......
It's bullspit, yes, but take it from one who knows: parents of autists will do ANYTHING to get rid of autism.
A N Y T H I N G.
The NIH is currently performing a multi-year, double-blind, placebo controlled study on the efficacy of EDTA Chelation for heart disease that will conclude in 2008. There have so far been no conclusive studies as to Chelation's efficacy one way or the other.
There have been NO conclusive studies as to EDTA Chelation's effect on autism.
No, probably loving but desperate parents who were hoodwinked by a quack doctor.
I can report positive results on my son, now age 7. He was diagnosed as mildly autistic at age 3.5. A combination of chelation (via pills, not injection) for 9 months, gluten-free, dairy-free diet for two years, and in-home therapy has shown vast improvement. His toxic metal levels are down, and his latest diagnosis is only borderline autistic.
Was it the chelation that did it all? I don't know, but I don't care.
Ear, nose and throat doctors are genuine doctors.
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That is just wonderful news!
Yes, it's a desperate move on the parents' part, but to take leave of one's senses is not helpful. As I have read, in some cases, autism can come up in a child that was perfectly normal one day and totally different the next. There may be a neurological basis.........
as are proctologists.........don't ask me how I know...........
And hopefully they are not also ear, nose and throat doctors.
C'mon, don't blame the parents. They more than likely got involved with a quack doctor.
....at least not on the same day...........
Yes, ENTs are doctors, however, they are not the specialty one would think of in regard to heavy metal poisoning removal by chelation. The only approved use of EDTA chelation is for heavy metal poisoning-- like, if some poor individual got mercury poisoning or cadmium. Not for autism. So the specialty of ENT is curious-- an allergist would even be more curious. Hemotology would be Less curious. Known some allergists to be real quacks.
Absolutely, except they are not specifically trained to treat autism, nor are they necessarily proficient in chelation as part of their training.
"...Abubakar Nadama suffered cardiac arrest because of an injection of EDTA, a chelation therapy drug administered to him in October by Dr. Roy E. Kerry at the Advanced Integrative Medicine Center"
When clinics are called
"advanced" and "integrative"
they might just as well
be called something like,
"Brother Love's Traveling Sideshow."
They're proud of snake oil . . .
Bottom line.
They injected poison in him and it did what it will do -- stopped his heart.
It seems just about every comment here has --- zip --- passed over this most important fact.
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