Contents

THE DIAGNOSIS OF HEAVY METAL POISONING
THE “DMPS CHALLENGE TEST”

I. INTRODUCTION

Everyone has a health issue. I’ve never met a person who did not have a health condition that caused some level of concern. It might be something as mild as athlete’s foot, or something as serious as cancer.

Because chronic mercury poisoning can produce so many symptoms, practitioners can assert that nearly any health condition is caused by mercury, whether this is true or not. And they can “prove” it to you with a “DMPS challenge test”.

II. THE FRAUD OF THE “DMPS CHALLENGE TEST”

A protocol for diagnosing chronic mercury toxicity is the “DMPS challenge test”. The patient is injected or infused with approximately 250mg of DMPS. After this infusion, the patient sends a 24-hour urine sample to a testing laboratory. The results will always show high levels of mercury, even in patients with no discernible health problems.

There’s a simple reason for this. It’s because the reference values, or norms to which they are comparing the patient’s urine are for healthy populations who have not had an injection of a metal chelator like DMPS. It is a misleading, even fraudulent report. Some physicians are as fooled as the patients. They don’t understand that the results are skewed. See Dr. Elmer Cranton’s website for more discussion of this test. (www.drcranton.com)

I contacted one of the labs performing this test and spoke to the Vice President. He admitted to me that the results were misleading, and promised to “correct” this by including an explanation in the written report accompanying the lab results. I haven’t seen it yet.

Don’t be fooled by this test. It may be that mercury is causing health problems for you, or maybe not. But this test is not an accurate indicator of how “mercury poisoned” a patient is. And it is an effective tool to scare patients into lengthy and expensive detoxification programs.

III. SAFETY

The “DMPS challenge test” involves the infusion or injection of a high dose of DMPS. One prominent mercury toxicity researcher has called this test “psychotic.” It is probably the riskiest way to administer DMPS. And if the patient “backfires”, there’s little that can be done to mitigate the symptoms.