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| A five-year old autistic boy from Batheaston, England, died earlier this week near Pittsburgh, PA after receiving an intravenous (IV) dose of a chelating agent, EDTA. |
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| We grieve for Abubakar Tariq Nadama (Tariq) and his family, and pray that they will find comfort for their sorrow and the terrible loss they are bearing. As parents of autistic children, we feel the pain Tariq's parents are in very deeply. |
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| This tragedy has received national attention, ensuring that Tariq's death was not in vain. It has brought attention to the autism community and the debate surrounding chelation therapy. May his passing serve as a tipping point to bring this issue to the top of the national health agenda, where it squarely belongs and ensure that his story will be the only one that ends so tragically. |
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| Inevitably, medical spokespersons will use this opportunity to warn parents of the dangers of chelation therapy, the "desperation" that explains a parent's willingness to try a procedure with "so much risk", and generally refute the theory many of us hold that autism is a misdiagnosis for mercury poisoning. It is frustrating for parents to be warned that chelation can be dangerous by the same authorities who approved the injection of a potent neurotoxin, mercury, into our children in the first place. |
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| The safety record of chelation therapy, prior to Tariq's death, shows no recorded deaths of children, much less meaningful side effects or hospitalizations. News reports have highlighted that the last known death of anyone from chelation therapy happened sometime in the 1950s. That said, we still need to understand what went wrong to continue to ensure that chelation therapy is as safe as possible. |
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| An important question we hope many people will ask is, "Why would Tariq's parents, his father a trained "mainstream" physician, relocate from England to the United States specifically to receive a treatment for their son that is not endorsed by mainstream medicine?" Only they can answer that question, but our guess is that they went through the same process and did the same research so many of us have done. We are not desperate parents willing to try anything. We are educated, caring parents who have done thousands of hours of research and administered dozens of medical tests on our children under the care of knowledgeable physicians. |
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| What we have discovered is that our children are heavy metal poisoned, particularly with mercury. The primary source of mercury comes from a vaccine preservative called Thimerosal. We have a diagnosis of mercury poisoning; we choose chelation as the therapy to remove mercury. This is a critical distinction: we are NOT chelating our children to cure autism. Autism is a behavioral diagnosis, applied through observation. The autism diagnosis does not offer any guidance on the medical issues in our children that may be behind these observed behaviors. The matching of symptoms and the science of lab work gives us the evidence we need to pursue proper medical treatment for our children. |
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