NIH Calls Off Chelation Study; Autism Community Offers Cheers and Jeers
Thursday September 18, 2008
According to a Reuters report:
The National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said in a statement on Wednesday that it has canceled a study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a treatment called chelation.Discover Magazine's online blog does a nice job of outlining the "relief and outrage" felt by various constituencies of the autism community.
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Comments
There was never any reason to test chelation on autistic children. There is no real reason why it would work for autism.
Thimerosal has been removed from vaccines some years back. In order to conduct this study, there’d have to be heavy metals in the test subjects and if there was, where then would be the source?
Everyone knows heavy metals can be chelated, and when present it’s neuro- damaging. I think the real funding should go to locating the sources.
In addition, chelation removes the metals, but it doesn’t reverse the damage down by excessive levels of Pb, Hg, etc.