IMPORTANT TIP: Testing your child for toxic metals is important, and highly recommended. When you know which metals your child is high in, you can chart your child's progress with the chelation treatments. In other words, you can know whether the chelation treatments you are using are mobilizing the heavy metals.

Diagnosing Metal and Chemical Toxicity in Children

Tests that help to diagnose metal and chemical toxicity include blood tests, urine tests, and the analysis of hair, nails or other tissues. The most accurate of these are a chelation challenge test, a tissue mineral analysis (hair analysis), or a Personal Heavy Metal Screen Test.

Regular blood tests and urine tests are not accurate in diagnosing heavy metal toxicity, as they only tend to show what is happening in the body at that brief moment in time, and do not give the long-term picture. For instance, if your child was exposed to lead 2 weeks ago, lead would appear in a regular blood test.

However, if your child was exposed to lead 2 months or even 2 years ago, the lead would not show up, since it has already been deposited into the tissues and organs. This makes sense since the body works hard to keep the levels of nutrients in the bloodstream within fairly tight limits. If large fluctuations in mineral levels occurred, serious illness or even death would result.

There are various ways to test for heavy metals, the most accurate being a chelation challenge test. This test needs to be performed by a doctor who specializes in chelation therapy. The child is given a chelating drug, commonly DMPS or DMSA, and his/her urine is collected and analyzed over a 24 hour period.

The advantages of this test is that it is the most accurate way of knowing just what heavy metals are present in the body.

The drawbacks to this method are that it requires visits to a doctors office, it is expensive, and the chelating agents can have side effects.

Here are some other simple, effective and accurate ways to test your child for heavy metals that you can do at home:

The home-use Heavy Metal Screen Test has been scientifically proven to tell you INSTANTLY whether you are carrying free electrically active heavy metal ions in your body.

It is fast (takes less than 10 minutes), convenient (can be done at home), accurate and inexpensive.

A color chart tells you the level of concentration of heavy metal ions being excreted from the body (urine).

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