Chelation therapy has critics, champions

Reports of success have caused a surge in the use to treat autistic children Friday, August 26, 2005
By Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For autism scientists, the growing popularity of chelation therapy is reopening a heated and frustrating debate on the origins of the condition.

Chelation (pronounced key-LAY-shun) has been used for decades to detoxify people with dangerous levels of heavy metals. With the standard treatment, a synthetic amino acid called EDTA latches onto heavy metals so they can be excreted with the urine.

Since the late 1990s, chelation has emerged as a treatment to address metal toxicity in autism patients.

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