Environmental Lead Exposure

Bryan Rosner — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:16:28 +0000

Linda’s comment: Dr Gordon’s FIGHT program will deal with helping to reduce and/or removing lead from the body that will help protect the kidneys. I have personally been on the FIGHT program for 1 1/2 years and it is the best thing I have ever done….Removing heavy metals from our bodies will help us to protect our immune from disease. I have posted on Mercury and all the things that it effects….this is serious, please read that post closely.

Regards,
Linda or Angel

Many may remember the NEJM article proving that patients with early renal impairment could often avoid renal dialysis if they routinely were maintained on CALCIUM EDTA infusions. Now there is new research finding that low levels of lead from the environment are adversely affecting renal function. By now, hopefully, all of you are aware that Lead levels have been tied to all causes of morbidity and mortality. However, remember the SYNERGISTIC toxicity effects where small amounts of other toxic metals like Mercury dramatically enhance the adverse effect of Lead.

Unfortunately NO test seems to be as accurate as BONE LEAD in determining risks of cataracts or heart attacks. But since we know we are all toxic today, this is just another indicator that may lead a few more patients to take preventive steps with a program using oral or parenteral chelators and or Zeolite, or even high dose oral vitamin c. Renal dialysis is not fun and kidney transplants are not easy to come by.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/715046

From Medscape Medical News

Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure May Adversely Affect Renal Function
Laurie Barclay, MD

January 13, 2010 — Low-level environmental lead exposure may adversely affect renal function, according to results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, reported in the January 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Chronic, high-level lead exposure is a known risk factor for kidney disease,” write Jeffrey J. Fadrowski, MD, MHS, from Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues. “The effect of current low-level environmental lead exposure is less well known, particularly among children, a population generally free from kidney disease risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the association between lead exposure and kidney function in a representative sample of US adolescents.”

The study cohort consisted of 769 adolescents aged 12 to 20 years for whom whole blood lead and serum cystatin C were measured in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which took place from 1988 to 1994. The investigators evaluated the association between blood lead level and level of kidney function, reflected in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) calculated from cystatin C–based and creatinine-based estimating equations.

Median whole blood lead level was 1.5 μg/dL (to convert to micromoles per liter, multiply by 0.0483), and median cystatin C–estimated GFR was 112.9 mL/min/1.73 m2. Compared with participants in the first quartile of lead levels (<1 μg/dL), those with lead levels in the highest quartile (≥3.0 μg/dL) had a lower estimated GFR by 6.6 mL/min/1.73 m2 (95% confidence interval [CI], −0.7 to −12.6 mL/min/1.73 m2). Twofold increase in blood lead level was associated with lower estimated GFR by 2.9 mL/min/1.73 m2 (95% CI, −0.7 to −5.0 mL/min/1.73 m2). Although lead levels were also associated with lower creatinine-based estimated GFR levels, t

CDC: Rare infection passed on by Miss. organ donor

Linda — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:29:32 +0000

NOTHING is rare these days!! If Hepatitis, parasites, Lyme, can be passed on why do they find it so hard to believe that this amoeba can be passed on???? There are liver recipients who get a new liver ONLY to find it is infected with Hepatitis, Lyme and parasites!! If the health departments will not classify Lyme as an STD, how can we expect them test for parasites. Yes, I agree there are many parasites that we humans can and DO pass on to each other….Another reason to make sure you are on a life-long detox, so you are aggressively fighting these “rare” issues and disease. If it is true and you can get the infection by breathing it in, then it is a MUST that we use ACS200ppm.

Regards,
Linda or Angel

JACKSON, Miss. – An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday. Four people in three states received organs from a patient who died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in November after suffering from neurological problems, said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention.

Organs are routinely tested for HIV, hepatitis and other more common infections, but occasionally rare ones slip through.

“We test for the known harmful diseases, but there’s not a test for every single pathogen out there,” said Dr. Kenneth Kokko, medical director of kidney transplants at UMMC.

Two of the recipients are critically ill, but the others haven’t shown symptoms, Daigle said. The CDC (web | news) confirmed the presence of the organism, known as Balamuthia mandrillaris, in one of the recipients.

Dr. Shirley Schlessinger, a UMMC doctor and medical director of the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, would not say which states had patients receiving the organs.

The public should not be concerned, both Schlessinger and Daigle said.

Balamuthia mandrillaris is a microscopic parasite found in soil that causes encephalitis in humans, horses, dogs, sheep and nonhuman primates. Scientists think people get infected by breathing it in, but it can also pass into the blood through a cut or break in the skin. It can be especially dangerous to people undergoing organ transplants, whose immune systems are purposely weakened so their bodies don’t reject their new organs.

Human infections are very rare: Only about 150 cases have been reported worldwide since the disease was first identified in 1990. But it can be hard to diagnose because few laboratories test for it and many doctors don’t know about it. Some cases are not identified until autopsy, according to the CDC.

“The thing we don’t want to happen is for people to take this rare and extraordinary anomaly and think it speaks to a lack of safety,” she said. “It’s very rare so the likelihood that this will happen again (is small), I mean, it’s rarer than rabies.”

There are risks to transplants and doctors can’t test for everything, but the potential benefits far outweigh the risks, she said.

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AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe in Atlanta contributed to this report.

kidney transplants – F.I.G.H.T for your health!

Environmental Lead Exposure

CDC: Rare infection passed on by Miss. organ donor