Andy Cutler Chelation Protocol #Round 1

Finally I summoned enough courage to re-start on #round 1 chelation for Jaden. 

Took me over almost a month and more to get my ass on dividing the doses, prepping my body and mind to be mentally strong enough to go through the difficult two dosings of the entire process. 

I was not worried about Jaden not wanting to take his doses when he is awake because I feel by now, after two years of asking him to come to me and getting supplements, medicine and bitter stuff shoved down mouth, he has learnt that its easier to quickly swallow it than to put up a fight with me. He never wins at that. Maybe not now when I still have the upperhand in parental control.

Like I mentioned earlier in this post, because we are just starting on our very first round, Jaden will only be taking 5mg per dosing every 4 hours for the next 72 hours. That would add up to 18 doses altogether. 

Minimum advisable hours to do would be 64 hours each time on a round. That is personally up to the parents as these kids are usually school-attending children and they have no choice but to do that. However, the ideal recommended hours would be 72 hours, and that is what I am doing with Jaden.

I have got my hands on a 25mg DMSA.

Many would be scratching their head over DMSA right now, aren't you? DMSA stands for Dimercaptosuccinic Acid. I am not going to explain further as there is always Wikipedia to do the job but to summarise it, its a chelating agent where it helps bind toxic metals in our heavily metal laden children. Research shows that most of the autistic (spectrum) children do have lead or mercury or both poisoning in their blood level. It is like detoxing our children from lead, mercury and some, even arsenic. 

Chelation is not a one off thing as these toxic metals do not get in there in a day, but was accumulated since don't know when so this chelating process would also take time to push these toxic out of the body. There are cases where some are completely 'recovered' and some, reaches a stage where nobody would once believe they were autistic and this is what I am aiming for. Of course, RECOVER is on my mission list, be it that this procedure might take a few years but if there is light at the end of the tunnel, I will march together with Jaden towards it. 

I would most probably do at least 5-10 rounds with just 5mg DMSA and then increase another additional 2.5mg to the 5mg. That is the step to take, it seems, as written in my book of AC chelation bible book -Fight Autism and Win. 

Then there will be ALA adding in, which ALA crosses the brain barrier and bla bla bla, but that is another story to tell next time when I start adding ALA to his DMSA but for now, lets stick with DMSA first. 

SO the story is...

We re-started our #Round 1 AC (Andy Cutler) chelation protocol on Aug 3, 2012. 

The first two days were a breeze through as I did not see any meltdowns, signs of fatigue or yeast flare-ups. DMSA are known to trigger yeast flare-ups despite one is on a anti-yeast protocol before, battling out the yeast. 

Jaden had two poo incidents, once on Fri evening and Sat morning, where it was mushy, mustardy, diarrhea-like, just non-watery though kind of poo. He took another dump on Saturday evening and it was well-formed by then, and it was in a rather healthy looking color -based on Bristol stool chart. I bet you didn't know that there was such a chart, didn't you? So did I, until now.

Yesterday, Sunday, nonsense started. In the evening, after dinner, Jaden went into his giggly, euphoric mode. That was when I started to panic. Yes, yeast army has arrived and started partying. His poo? Well, it came in two colors, well formed but one was nearly tar-liked in color. That could only mean bad news, indication of something not right inside there.

Other than being giggly and all last night, he did display some positive signs such as being a calmer boy than usual, much cheerful. 


Oh, I forgot to mention another downside, he was stimming much ore, flapping his hands and that also boils down to it being caused by yeast. YES, we parents like to blame em YEAST !!!

Before I started out this round, I was only scared of the two dosings that requires me to give it to Jaden when he is sleeping. Remember how I failed the last time round because he put up a fight with me the last time round on the second night of dosing and I have to abandon round? 

Well, it seems by my endless effort trying out various ways (during that one month break), I practiced trying to open his mouth when he is sleeping whenever I could and FINALLY, I think I may have found THE SECRET to it, without waking him up and also getting those doses in. I shared it with one parent I met up last night and she text me late last night saying it worked with her son too. 

*PHEW*

BUT do let me stress. Every kid is different. They have different sensitive issues, for Jaden, it was his lips. If you touch his lips, it will stir him up from sleep and make him angry and that was what that caused my previous abandoned round. 

Speaking of detoxifying this metals out from our children, some minerals get depleted too. That is why, during chelation, we crank up on their supplements. Jaden has to take double of his zinc, magnesium, milk thistle (just because I am a scaredy cat and wanna protect his liver all I can), calcium and probiotics. 

This is a 3days on a round, rest for 11days and then continue again on the next round. Each round is 72 hours, you should have get the idea by now though. Why rest right? This is because we need to let their body recover from all these detoxifying, build up again on their immune system and then go on a fight again. Even soldiers need to take a time out, to replan, regroup and refill their ammo before they can fight, right? Just like detoxifying, some will purge it out but you don't expect those purges to go on 24/7 for the next 365 days, do you? You would be jelly by then. So its basically the same concept. 

Some children's neutrophils are also lowered while on DMSA, so they need time to get their neutrophils to a safe range before they begin their battle again. That is why there are some that only does one round of DMSA once a month for their children. Its not about how fast you go, and that will give you success. Its how steady you go, how you do your rounds based on each child's health rate. Its a fight of course, a fight with time.. and that is all.. but aren't we all fighting against time for everything? Just that, this is rather a tough fight as each child's situation is different from another. Some might just need less than 100 rounds and they could be saying "Hallelujah", some may need more time and rounds. 

Whatever it is, the motto is never to give up ... 

One and half hours more to go before his last dosage of DMSA for this #ROUND 1.. and I can successfully say, 

YES I COMPLETED A ROUND ON MY BABY BOY !!!!! 

and damn, I deserve a good glass of wine to celebrate ! :)

p/s: This would mean I took another baby step forward. YAY !!!!!