What safety information do you have regarding Chelation Therapy (EDTA)?
Serious side effects have been associated with chelation therapy, such as dangerously low calcium blood levels, damage to bone marrow which decreases the ability to make new blood cells, kidney damage (with elevated creatinine levels), very low blood pressure, fast heart rate, increased risk of bleeding or blood clots (including interference with the effects of the blood thinning drug warfarin [Coumadin®]), bacterial blood infections, seizures, allergic or immune system reactions, heart rhythm abnormalities, and unstable blood sugars. Other side effects may include fever, nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal upset, excessive thirst, sweating (diaphoresis), headache, decreased thyroid function, fatigue, low white blood cell count (leukopenia), or low blood platelet count (thrombocytopenia). Severe reactions have occurred in which people have stopped breathing. Although deaths have been reported in people receiving chelation, is not clear that chelation therapy was the direct cause. Chelat
