Autistic boy dies during controversial treatment

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05236/559444.stm

A 5-year-old Monroeville boy died this week during a medical treatment that's being touted by some as a cure for autism.

The autistic boy died while receiving chelation -- an intravenous injection of a synthetic amino acid known as EDTA, for ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the practice only to treat heavy metal (such as lead) poisoning. The treatment is becoming increasingly popular, though still controversial, for autism.

Police are investigating the boy's death, which occurred Tuesday morning in the office of Dr. Roy Kerry in Portersville. Kerry did not return calls today.

[HuckleB]

1. Chelation and Autism

http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/chelation-autism

A needless death.

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[MockSwede]

2. EDTA

EDTA binds any bivalent metal ion. Iron, lead, calcium, zinc, aluminum (in the 2+ form), most of the trace minerals we need, etc. Some folks think one or more of these metals somehow has something to do with autism. So, removed the offending metal ions, no disease. Remove a little more, or too much of one or another of these critical metal ions from our bodies and we are DEAD.