My son's autism label was removed after heavy metal detoxification

autism recovery My son Luke’s autism label was removed after heavy metal detoxification. It’s a controversial treatment, with some “experts” claiming that autism isn’t caused by environmental factors such as mercury or lead. In fact, my son’s doctor, Dr. Stephen Edelson, an environmental doctor in Atlanta, has a lengthy write-up on Quackwatch, and was forced into retirement by the witch hunt that ensued…

Luke was born six weeks premature because his twin had gone into distress, and they had to be taken via emergency c-section. Luke’s twin was badly damaged, and ended up dying. The doctors scratched their collective heads as to what happened to him, and could give me no answers. Luke suffered from allergies and ear infections from the time he was born, and was nonverbal. He was labeled as PDD when he was three years old, which at that time was considered a milder form of the dreaded autism label.

“The mildest of the mild,” the doctors assured me.

“Well if it’s so mild, then why can’t it be something else?” I cried.

“We don’t know what else to call it,” one of the doctors said with a slow shake of her head.

“By golly, I’ll find out what else to call it!” I replied.

When Luke was seven, I pulled up in the yard of our farm one dreary winter’s day, and slumped over the steering wheel, mentally battered by yet another call from his principal asking me to come get him. I stared at the old well that provided our drinking water. Next to it stood a barn that leaned precariously over it, as if the next gust of wind would blow it over.

I jolted upright as a light went off in my head. My jaw dropped as I turned and gaped at Luke, who sat beside me fidgeting with his Gameboy.

I realized then what had killed Luke’s twin and caused his autism.

I ran into the house, giddy with excitement, and googled environmental doctors. That is how I came across Dr. Edelson.

Two weeks later Luke walked into the doctor’s office, and Dr. Edelson bellowed, “He’s not autistic, he’s toxic!”

I beamed, knowing at that moment that my instincts had been correct, and that I had brought Luke to the right place to begin his transition into recovery.

Dr. Edelson found massive amounts of mercury, lead, arsenic and pesticides in Luke’s body. A spect scan was done, which indicated that his brain was full of heavy metals.

The doctor outlined a care plan that included chelators to remove the heavy metals, scores of different vitamins and sauna therapy for the removal of the pesticides.

I’ve inserted a link on heavy metal detoxification that will help to understand it better:

How to Rid Your Body of Heavy Metals: A 3-Step Detoxification Plan

We haggled over the price, as I thought some of his charges were excessive. We finally agreed upon outpatient chelation therapy in the form of DMSA capsules, and a scaled-down version of his vitamin therapy, which I bought from his office. I balked, though, at his outrageous charge for sauna therapy. I ended up buying a home sauna from a store in Canada, and we did it ourselves. Every day I would give Luke a dosage of niacin and we would jog around the yard a few times, then get in the sauna. It was easy, and great for both of us, but most of all…it worked. A month later I retested him for pesticides with a kit I ordered off the internet. The test came back negative for pesticides.

Dr. Edelson did fire me over the sauna do-it-yourselfer, but he gave me the tools I needed to get Luke well. The bottom line is, he figured out what was at the bottom of my son’s “autism” when no one else could or would, and started treatment on my son that led him down the road to autism recovery.

Six months later I took Luke to get reevaluated. The doctor downgraded Luke’s label from “autism” to “expressive-language disorder,” and told me that Luke is very intelligent, but, also, very manipulative.

More to come on that next time!

Dr. Edelson is the reason why my son’s autism label was removed after heavy metal detoxification, and for that, I will always be grateful to him.

Til next time…Scarlett

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Scarlett South is a registered nurse, an autism specialist and the author of Autistic or Toxic? How I Unlocked the Mystery of My Son's "Autism." But her proudest achievement is her adult son, whom was once considered severely autistic, with talks of being placed in an institution, and whom is now an independent and productive member of society! Scarlett is based in Florida.