Pediatric fatality secondary to EDTA chelation

Pediatric fatality secondary to EDTA chelation.

BACKGROUND Chelation therapy has emerged as a popular treatment modality to remove heavy metals that are thought to cause autism. We report a fatality that occurred as a consequence of chelation therapy for autism when the incorrect form of EDTA was administered. CASE REPORT A five-year-old autistic male was being chelated in a physician's office. While receiving his third treatment he went i...

EDTA Chelation Therapy

This study measured excretion of 11 minerals induced by EDTA chelation therapy in 25 adults (aluminum, cadmium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, zinc). We administered 20 EDTA infusions (3 g, with magnesium and ascorbate) 1 to 2 weeks apart and measured 24-hr urinary excretions of minerals before treatment and after treatments 1, 10, and 20. A modest supplem...

Benefits of EDTA Chelation Therapy

Applications Of EDTA Chelation Therapy

Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, or EDTA, is a synthetic amino acid approved by the FDA for the removal of toxic metal ions such as lead. EDTA is used in isolation for heavy metal poisoning; however, the vast majority of practitioners who offer intravenous EDTA treatments utilize it as a part of a comprehensive therapy program for treating atherosclerosis and other chronic degenerative disease...

Effect of Disodium EDTA Chelation Regimen

TREATMENT OF LEAD TOXICITY with chelation was first reported with EDTA in the early 1950s. Apparent success in reducing metastatic calcium deposits led Clarke et al in 1956 to treat angina patients with EDTA, and others to use chelation for various forms of atherosclerotic disease. Chelation therapy evolved to constitute infusions of vitamins and disodium EDTA, a drug that binds divalent and so...