Chelation Therapy: What Is It?

Chelation therapy is a procedure with is used toto be removed from the body without any harm
remove toxic levels of heavy metals from within abeing done to them.Later, there were other chelating
person. The process happens when the use ofagents discovered to be used as well. These bind
chelating agents is used. There are both conventionalwith metallic ions and render them less chemically
medicine approaches to using it as well as alternativereactive. This then allows them to be excreted from
medicines. In any case, this treatment, whenthe body without any harm.Conventional Medicine
administered properly can help to improve the healthAnd Chelation TherapyIn conventional medicine, there
and well being of individuals.During World War I, theare several ways in which these chelating agents can
use of poisonous gas was in place. Chelating agentsbe used. Although it is rare for them to be needed
were first used during this time period. The first ofand used, they can provide a safe and excellent way
them was British Anti Lewisite also called BAL. Thisto treat several conditions.They can be effective in
was the name given to Dimercaprol. This is an organictreating such conditions as:
compound that is related to mercaptans. These
mercaptans are organic compounds that containAcute Mercury poisoning
sulfur. But, what does all of this really have to doPlutonium poisoning
with what they can do? Well, mercaptans are able toArsenic poisoning
react to the bad metals that are within the body toIron poisoning
capture them or to form compounds with them. InAnd lead poisoning.
this case, the lewisite gas was an arsenic type of
organic compound that was used in poisoning theThey can also be useful in treating other conditions
enemy. BAL was able to bind the arsenic compoundsas well as other heavy metal poisonings.
from lewisite within the body. This then allowed them