I've heard that a teaching hospital in our area did a study with chelation and heart disease.
I would never tell anyone to do chelation nor would I ever tell anyone NOT to do chelation as I don't have a clue if it works or not.
I do know I don't take anyone's word for anything any more. I do not trust traditional medicine to know what they are doing. They may in certain instances, but then they may not in other instances. I think their method of treating patients has become to reach for their prescription pad and start writing. I've seen too may family members messed up.
I'm a RN at a tertiary care facility (the type of hospital that gets referrals for more complicated cases from smaller hospitals). Currently, I work in an outpatient clinic, but when I worked in the hospital, we frequently treated kids with lead toxicity (chelation).
I've heard that a teaching hospital in our area did a study with chelation and heart disease.
There's a difference in performing an experimental treatment based on sound scientific evidence/theory in a controlled environment (such as a teaching hospital studying the effects of chelation on cardiac patients) vs. an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor performing chelation to treat autism. There is no conclusive evidence that mercury causes autism, and there is no evidence that chelating will ease the symptoms of autism. Furthermore, this quack should not have been performing this procedure in his office; it should have been done in a facility that had the resources available to resuscitate the patient if they were to arrest (as in this case).
I realize that parents want to do anything they can to find both the answer to the disease, as well as to find a viable treatment (been there, done that with myself). However, this doctor preyed on their misfortune. Objectively speaking, it just doesn't make sense to go to an ENT doc for an autism treatment (much the same as going to a gynecologist for a heart attack).
Which is why it is so important to find a doctor that is both good and trustworthy.
I think their method of treating patients has become to reach for their prescription pad and start writing. I've seen too may family members messed up.
If that's the case, it's time to find a new doctor.