[Born Conservative]

It's highly unlikely the boy died from EDTA if they were watching his creatinine.

The problem is that we don't even know if it was a medical professional doing the chelation. And even if it was, they obviously are taking chances by performing this, since it is an unproven therapy for an unproven cause to autism (mercury).

[JmyBryan]

I agree they were taking foolish chances if not using medical people. But the treatment itself, while controversial and maybe useless for autism, is not really dangerous if administered correctly.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

People die all the time from traditional medical treatment but it's just accepted that the patient died in spite of doctors doing all they could to treat the patient.

I'm sick of the double standard. I don't know what caused the death of this child. I know of a few people who have done chelation and swear by it.

I know of people who have heart by-passes and their health is not so good afterward and some have even had strokes on the operating table. Others have died, yet we have by-passes being performed all the time.

We need to keep an open mind about this.

One person I know who had chelation has a daughter who is a pharmacist and the daughter was all for her mom doing this and is pleased with the results.