An Update and Review of Unconventional Metals Testing and Treatment

Toxics

Diana J. Felton¹  Stefanos N. Kales² 

[1] Harvard Medical Toxicology Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA;Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; E-Mails:

关键词: heavy metals;    chelation;    provoked urine testing;    unconventional;    alternative medicine;   

DOI  :  10.3390/toxics2030403

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Most patients who receive unconventional testing for metals do not have any remarkable exposure history and typically lack symptoms or objective findings compatible with classic heavy metal intoxication. Unconventional tests results are usually promoted by alternative practitioners as the basis for recommending, promoting, and selling to the patient questionable and often inappropriate therapies/interventions supposedly aimed at “detoxification”. Most of these patients will have no evidence of overexposure to metals on the basis of a thorough history and will have levels of metals on conventional tests performed at reliable laboratories that are undetectable, within population background ranges or above population background, but well below levels associated with toxicity.

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