Lead Poisoning Treatment – 5 Easy Steps

This illness is more common than one might think. There are a variety of sources of toxic lead which are outlined below. As well, a common treatment method is discussed. The good news is that treatment is available to everyone. You might want to first find out if you are poisoned. The obvious question is “What are the symptoms of lead poisoning?”

Here is a short list of the symptoms.

General Symptoms In Children and Adults

* Stomach aches, cramping, constipation, or diarrhea
* Nausea, vomiting
* Persistent, unexplained fatigue
* Headache
* Muscle weakness
* Higher rates of tooth decay

Behavioral Symptoms In Children

* Irritability or aggressiveness
* Hyperactivity, being easily distracted, impulsiveness
* Learning problems
* Lack of interest in play
* Loss of appetite

Behavioral Symptoms In Adults

* Irritability
* Unexplained changes in mood or personality
* Inability to concentrate
* Memory loss

This by no means and exhaustive list. However if you or your child suffers from several of the symptoms mentioned above you might want to do the heavy metals urine test. This test is not a treatment, its a test for levels of the toxin.

Now you may be wondering how you got lead in your body in the first place. There are many possible sources such as the following:.

Sources of Lead Exposure

* Our parents, passed from mother to child in vitro
* Old Homes (paint and lead pipes)
* Painted Dishes
* Toys from China
* Canned Foods (lead solder)
* Children’s Jewellry
* Contaminated Candy Imported from Mexico (from processing)

Popular Treatment

The most recommended lead poisoning treatment is using a product called DMSA. DMSA stands for Meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid. This is a product that is approved by the FDA for use in children.

The FDA has classed DMSA as safe and useful for the removal of lead in children, Basically a safe lead poisoning treatment method. This product is often mentioned on the popular TV show House. Yes, House is just a TV show, however there are 11 certified Medical Doctors on the writing staff. The medical information on the show is technically accurate. On the show DMSA is sometimes referred to at “succinic acid” or “dimercapto acid”, these are all other words for DMSA.

The exact protocol for lead poisoning treatment using DMSA is well known and understood. Any site that sells DMSA will provide usage instructions. The general protocal for lead poisoning treatment involves taking DMSA for 3 days then taking a break for 11 days. The break is needed to allow your body to rest and be ready for the next round of treatment.

What Should I Do From Here?

Lead Poisoning Treatment – 5 Easy Steps

If you suspect you are poisoned a good lead poisoning treatment program is outlined below:

* See if you have any symptoms
* Take the urine test for toxic heavy metals
* Find a source for DMSA (search on the internet using google.com)
* Follow the lead poisoning treatment recommendations
* Take the urine test again after 6 months to check your lead levels

As you can see lead poisoning treatment is not difficult. Its is relatively easy to assess if you are poisoned and where it came from. Proper treatment requires an understanding of both of these factors. When you start your regimen you need to first remove all environmental sources of lead. If you

don’t, your efforts to heal will be in vain. With continued exposure to this toxin you will never be able to heal properly.

You might be thinking you just found the holy grail of swine flu. Yes, there are treatments for swine, but surprise! They’re essentially the same as treating any other flu. Thus far swine flu symptoms have been more pronounced in children and teenagers, and it is more dangerous for that group of people. Here are 5 things the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends as treatments for swine flu, geared towards children and teenagers.

1. Use medicines without aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) to relieve symptoms. These include acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which can be found in many OTC drugs.

2. Children under 4 shouldn’t be given any medications, whether OTC or not, until consulting a doctor.

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If you are suffering from migraine headaches than it is important for you to find a natural cure. Having this type of headache can keep you from doing the things in your life that make you happy.

If we see a sentence suggesting pain is good thing, most people would scratch their heads and think the author was playing a joke. Everyone knows pain is unpleasant and to be avoided at all costs. Indeed, it’s this attitude of wanting to avoid pain at all costs that’s lifted the US to the top of the world rankings. No matter what you might think of the competition, the US takes more painkillers per head of population than any other country in the world. It’s not clear exactly what the prize for winning is, but the obvious consequence is that we have more people abusing painkillers and so becoming dependent. This seriously complicates the treatment for the underlying cause. So let’s split this into two separate questions: why is pain a good thing? and why should we aim to treat pain without relying on drugs?

Pain works in exactly the same way as a burglar alarm. You fit one to your home and if someone enters without your consent, you get a warning. Well, it’s the same with pain. If a virus or bacterium gets into your body, you need something to tell you there’s a problem. If you get into an accident, you need pain to tell you exactly what injuries you have, whether you can walk or need an ambulance, and what treatment you are likely to need. Without pain, you might never know if you were falling ill, and you might make an injury worse if you continued to move with, say, strained muscles or broken bones. That makes pain very useful. The problem comes because once you know you are ill or have an injury, you want the pain to stop. Well that’s just plain wrong. Suppose you hurt your leg. Do you want to feel no pain so that, if you pick up something that’s too hot, you have to wait for the burning smell before you drop it? No! If one part of the body is hurt, you want want to know if the pain is spreading or growing worse. The pattern of the pain helps you monitor whether you are getting better or worse.

So moving on to the second question, as medial science stands, the only way to switch off pain completely is to make you almost completely unaware or actually unconscious. No matter what pill you take, you will feel a little pain so long as you remain alert. The problem with the strongest painkillers is that they are all addictive. The advantage of Tramadol is that you can take it in quite high doses for quite long periods of time and still stop without major withdrawal symptoms. You should always be in a treatment regime that allows you to continue feeling some pain and, more importantly, that you can stop without experiencing withdrawal symptoms. That means you must be planning for life without pills. If you assume you will have to continue taking pills for the rest of your life, consider the cost. If you take 3 pills a day at $1 per pill, that’s $1095 per year. This assumes you do not build up tolerance and need to take more than 3 pills per day. How many years do you want to spend this money on Tramadol?

It might look slightly odd to put stress and acne together as if this is something new. In fact, everyone who has suffered acne knows all about stress. No matter whether those around us were considered friends or enemies, the appearance of acne converts everyone into a potential enemy to self-confidence. It can be a look that lingers just a little too long, or looks exchanged between people as you pass by, and that’s before you start hearing the comments. It would not be so bad if it happened to everyone at the same time. That way everyone would be the same. But some people start young. Others seem to have avoided the problem only to find it coming on years after everyone else has finished. These differences mean there is a steady supply of targets for cruelty. Those who recover the most quickly have the longest time to take their revenge on all those who follow them.

Yet look beyond the obvious connection and there are some very important questions. Suppose there’s a real link so that stress of anticipating the arrival of acne encourages it to come. Or that the stress of all the taunting slows down the recovery and makes the whole problem last longer. If either or both of these links was real, all children and teens would benefit from learning relaxation techniques. Yes, we can all smile and say there would be resistance. But if there was clear medical evidence that stress-busting was a cure for acne, this might encourage your children to be a little more calm and pleasant to live with.

Unfortunately, we now come to a major conflict of interest. There has been no significant research into proving or disproving the link. When you think about it, this is an extraordinary failure. Yet it’s easily explained. At present, Big Pharma and the cosmetics industry make several billion dollars a year out of selling drugs and various products to “help” those with acne. If all people had to do to cure acne was to meditate and relax, just think what would happen to all those profits. So we have to be sold the message that it’s medically necessary to treat acne as if it was a major disease and spend vast amounts of money on covering up the problem until it goes away.

Perhaps this criticism is unjustified. Perhaps there’s no link between stress and acne. But it would be better if there was proper research into proving cause and effect. The only “evidence” comes from a few unscientific tests. For example, one university monitored some twenty students and found they had more obvious acne before and during examinations. Although such findings are interesting, they are scientifically useless. Proper clinical trials require hundreds if not several thousand people for the evidence to be credible. Ironically, the only real scientific evidence comes courtesy of the FDA’s approval of Accutane which is proven highly effective in eliminating acne. Yes, there are problems if women of child-bearing age take the drug. Others have unwisely ignored the manufacturer’s warnings and have been injured. But millions of people have found Accutane effective. Respect the drug and it’s safe.

Question:

I’m concerned about the bird flu epidemic that may spread to Europe this winter. How can I avoid getting lt? Or, if I do succumb, how do I treat it? Would the herb astragalus, which is used in Chinese medicine to boost the immune system, help?

Answer:

Viral infections that cause respiratory problems are called influenza, or flu for short. These include avian or bird flu viruses, which exist naturally in the gut of wild birds without causing any trouble. They are, however, highly contagious and spread very fast. If domestic birds (such as chickens, ducks and turkeys) are in contact with the wild birds and get infected, they become very sick indeed, probably because they’re less hardy.

Bird flu didn’t used to affect people, but in 1997 k made its first jump to humans. It is believed that a trial in China involving a vaccine for bird flu among domestic poultry went wrong and certain mutations among avian flu viruses caused a virulent strain of the infection, which attacked humans with alarming consequences.

The virus spreads to humans when they come into contact with infected birds or their secretions. Poultry workers are more likely to be infected, as they are in contact with contaminated material. They, in turn, can infect others through saliva or nasal secretions. Recently there have been reports of the disease spreading in Russia and Kazakhstan. That is why there are fears that it may spread to Europe this winter.

The symptoms of bird flu are similar to those of the common flu virus (sore throat, runny nose, headache, fever, muscle aches, cough and extreme fatigue), but can develop into eye infections, Pneumonia, severely respiratory distress and other life-threatening complications.

Conventional treatment is usually restricted to antiviral drugs used for treating the common flu. Unfortunately, when the bird flu I viruses are challenged with these drugs they mutate very fast altering the protein structure on their surfaces so that they become immune to drugs and even to vaccines created to block their rapid growth. Just like superbugs such as MRSA, they are smarter than medical science.

My approach, which I detail in my book The Integrated Health Bible, is to use our innate healing power, which helps to repair cuts, bruises and fractures, and even cure flu without any help. The old medical saying is that if you treat flu, the body is cured in a week; if you don! it gets better in seven days.

If avian flu does spread to the UK, the best way to avoid contact with the viruses is to wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you are in crowded places. You also need to build up your immune system. These viruses are parasitic organisms, which need the warmth and protection of living cells to thrive and propagate. In an epidemic, the spread of the disease depends on the virulence of the organisms and the state of the immune system. Run-down bodies are more likely to get infected.

I advise you to follow my lifestyle programme, which includes diet and nutrition, massage, therapeutic iyengar yoga (or other exercises) and relaxation, it’s explained in detail in The Integrated Health Bible and also on my Lifestyle DVD. Herbs such as astragalus may help boost the immune system too, but if
you do get this flu, consult your doctor immediately.

Here are my suggestions:

* Start preparing your body in the autumn, when it starts to get run-down due to the changing weather, and the bacteria and viruses look for the warmth of the human’
body for survival.

*Avoid excess alcohol, citrus fruits, coffee, yeast products, very spicy food and fried food. Focus on a simple diet of fruits, vegetables, fresh vegetable juices (carrots, ginger, celery fresh mint) and warming soups. Also make sure you eat some protein daily, in the form of soft-boiled eggs, grilled fish, chicken and red meat (all organic if possible).

* Have a neck and shoulder massage once a week, either from a professional therapist a friend/partner or you can do it yourself (details are on my Lifestyle DVD, as above) to relieve tension and create a feeling of well being. This will boost the blood flow to the pituitary gland, which controls the immune system.

*Take Zinc Citrate: one daily for three months to boost the immune system.

* Take BioEnergy: which contains Indian ginseng, an adaptogen that helps the body balances stress: one twice daily for three months.

* Take Chawanprash: one teaspoonful daily for three months. This natural supplement also kick-starts the immune system.

* Take Multivitamins: one a day for four months. I have blended this formulation to help fulfill the basic daily health requirements.