Talk:Chelation therapy

message: Under "Society and culture - Use in alternative medicine - Cardiovascular disease" 4th paragraph
"In 1988, a retrospective study of 2870 patients treated with EDTA chelation found that 77% of patients with ischemic heart disease showed "marked" improvement and 91% of patients with peripheral heart disease also showed "marked" improvement.[19] A 1993 retrospective study of 470 patients who underwent EDTA chelation noted that 80% had objective evidence of improvements of their symptoms.[40]"
I would be highly surprised if "Medical Hypotheses" and "Journal of Advancement in Medicine" adhere to MEDRS and should be removed.
2A02:A210:A001:A380:6435:5369:3F04:B220 (talk) 21:01, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. remove it and some other primary/unreliable sources. Jytdog (talk) 21:05, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

text: See WP:MEDRS. The journal Medical Hypotheses is especially suspect, having a (ahem) unconventional approach to peer-review and having published crap from anti-vaxxers and AIDS denialists. Famousdog  (c) 07:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is further non-MEDRS content and sources, so is removed to here for discussion, if warranted. The edit contains trademarks, dubious content in low-quality sources, and promotional, misleading quackery. Zefr (talk) 22:20, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  not MEDRS 

message: There is actually evidence that chelation can help for people with authism:
Conclusion: Overall, both one and seven rounds of DMSA therapy seems to be reasonably safe in children with ASD who have high urinary excretion of toxic metals, and possibly helpful in reducing some of the symptoms of autism in those children.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19852790/ 31.165.215.228 (talk) 18:51, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chelation for Autism 

message: Iron induces chronic heart failure in half of heart attack survivors, according to landmark study
"....iron chelators reduce iron content within the heart tissue."
https://www.mbi.ucla.edu/in-the-spotlight
Sometime in the near future, the section on Iron and Heart may have to be revised and updated. 104.35.48.79 (talk) 05:52, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron and Chronic Heart failure - Iron chelation to the rescue 

message: I find it... disturbing to see, "This article is part of a series on Alternative medicine" displayed so prominently on the page. Chelation therapy is an effective, main-stream treatment for several different kinds of metal poisoning. Whether or not autism and heart disease and cancer are caused by low-level metal poisoning that goes unrecognized by main-stream medicine, and whether or not those conditions can be reversed by chelation therapy is a different question.
If a meme catches fire on the internet saying that Penicillin cures warts, will we then label Penicillin as "alternative medicine?" 151.201.129.79 (talk) 23:33, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the sidebar as it gives too much weight to the alternative use. (That will likely be reverted.) This article, unfortunately, deals with both mainstream and alternative/quack uses. We normally have separate articles for alternative medical articles. Not sure what happened here. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 02:14, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. --Dustfreeworld (talk) 17:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

text: "Changed my mind and self-revert. Sorry I was wrong. It’s not alternative https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=27199065"
Please explain what you mean. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 20:46, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative? Really?