The essential elements do not satisfy the counting rules, suggesting
that mineral transport is normal and healthy.

That given, the elevated toxic elements may well be real.

Bismuth is known to induce encephalopathy. It is worth checking into
these.

Andy

--- In Autism-Mercury@y..., "autismzone" <autismzone@y...> wrote:
> List,Please Help!We have received our DDI hair test results!!! We
do
> have 2 red toxic elements and 2 red essential elements. I did the
> counting rules and it looks like my child is not mercury toxic.
> Could someone please double check for me in case I am reading it
> wrong. I have been reading this list deligently EVERYDAY since June
> of 2001 in preparation for chelation but now do we need to do
> chelation???? Is above average only the red range or does it
include
> the yellow too-green is good, right?(in the reference range)? We
> give our son Epsom Salt baths every other night and I think this may
> have impacted his red off the page Magnesium - his sulfur was green
> though. Thank you to anyone who can help.
>
> My 3 year old autistic son's DDI hair results:
>
> Essential Elements (HIGH IS GOING TO RIGHT, LOW IS GOING TO LEFT):
> ELEMENTS RESULTS COLOR HIGH/LOW REFERENCE RANGE
>
> Calcium 137 green low 125-370
> Magnesium 130 RED high 12-30
> Sodium 22 green low 12-90
> Potassium 13 green low 12-40
> Copper 13 green high 8.0-16
> Zinc 130 white middle dot 100-190
> Manganese 0.05 RED low 0.2-0.55
> Chromium 0.23 Yellow low 0.26-0.5
> Vanadium 0.053 white middle 0.03-0.1
> Molybdenum 0.061 green low 0.05-0.13
> Boron 1.4 green low 0.6-4.0
> Iodine 3.0 Yellow high 0.25-1.3
> Lithium 0.045 Yellow high 0.007-0.023
> Phosphorus 191 green low 160-250
> Selenium 0.89 Yellow low 0.95-1.7
> Strontium 0.69 green high 0.16-1.0
> Sulfur 52800 green high 45500-53000
> Barium 0.19 green low 0.16-0.8
> Cobalt 0.011 Yellow low 0.013-0.035
> Iron 6.6 Yellow low 8.0-19
> Germanium 0.051 green low 0.045-0.065
> Rubidium 0.015 Yellow low 0.016-0.18
> Zirconium 0.62 green high 0.04-1.0
>
> HIS POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS
> TOXIC EL %COLOR RESULT REFERENCE RANGE
> Aluminum green 5.9 <8.0
> Antimony green .059 <.066
> Arsenic green .07 <.08
> Beryllium no color<.01 <.02
> Bismuth RED-OFF-PAGE-2.2 <.13
> Cadmium green .041 <.15
> Lead green .25 <1.0
> Mercury green .03 <.4
> Platinum no color<.0003 <.005
> Thallium no color<.001 <.01
> Thorium no color<.001 <.005
> Uranium green .017 <.06
> Nickel green .07 <.4
> Silver green .05 <.2
> Tin green .23 <.3
> Titanium RED 3.2 <1.0
> TOTAL TOXIC REPRESENTATION: Green but very close to yellow
>
> "Counting rules:
>
> The result is abnormal and suggests heavy metal intoxication if any
> of the following criteria are met:
>
> 1. The number of essential elements "very elevated" and "very low"
is
> 4 or more. {(Is this red only-we had 2 in red -1 low and 1 high, if
> we count the yellow it would add 7 more-2 high and 5 low)}
>
> 2. The number of essential elements entirely inside the middle band
> is 14 or less. {(white area? we had 2 in the white)}
>
> 3. The number of essential elements above average is EITHER 5 or
less
> OR it is 18 or more. {(Very confused here as to what is above
> average - We have 1 red high, 2 yellow high, and 6 green high - that
> would be 9 that are above the 50th percentile, is this right??)}"
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Theresa M, San Anton