How to test for Heavy Metal Toxicity Using Urine Porphyrin Profile Analysis

Information about Urine Porphyrin Profile Analysis Testing

Recently the UPPA tested has been shown to be the most effective test in looking at heavy metal levels in children with Autism. Several reports have explained why blood and urine tests do not show if a child's body has high levels of heavy metals. For one, it has been shown that children with Autism have difficulty excreting heavy metals from their bodies, which would mean they would not be excreting the metals in urine, feces, hair and blood in levels that are found in their body tissues.

The average cost for the porphyrin test is between $100-150.00 for the test, you will also have to pay for shipping charges and any additional health care/doctor charges.

Your health care provider and/or the lab you are requesting the test from, should give you very specific directions. However there are 2 important things you should know that you do not want to over look, or else the results will be altered.

1. Porphyrins are Light Sensitive

2. Porphyrins are Temperature Sensitive

Collect the Sample in a Low Light Room and use a plastic light opaque container (often amber brown colored).

The accuracy of the results are also based on getting and keeping the urine sample out of light, minimizing air expose (sealing sample container) and keeping sample at proper temperature (which lab or doctor should explain).
There are many labs that can run this analysis, but 2 of the labs that are often recommended because results have be cross checked for accuracy are:

Labcorp (in US) or
Laboratoire Phillipe Auguste (in France)-see below for more information on these labs.

Where to Get a Reliable UPPA Test

The Laboratoire Phillippe August in Paris, France, can be contacted via email at contact@labbio.net. Or you can go to their website (www.Labbio.net) to our the Porphyrin Test Kit- Go to Autism Link. The benefit of the Lab in France is it is reliable lab tested for accuracy and the lab provides you with the porphyrins and an analysis of the results. Ironically, the FDA does not allow the US labs to provide an analysis with the results. For that reason alone I would recommend the lab in France.
www.Labbio.net and look under the tests relating to autism.

The other lab that does porphyrin testing and has had the results tested for accuracy from third parties to compare the results is
Laboratory Corporation of America,www.labcorp.net.

Metametrix and Great Plains are other labs that you can order the porphyrin test from but Great Plains uses Labcorp for the lab results. And Metametrix refers patients elsewhere for lab result intrepretations.

For more information regarding UPPA (Porphyrn Analysis) for Heavy Metals, go to http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/080130_UPDTD_GdForOrderUPPATest3b.pdf

If your child has heavy metal toxicity and chelating alone is not pull enough heavy metals from the body, you may want to read this study.

Other early studies related to heavy metals and children with neurodevelopmental delays include: A study done by Tamara Mariea and George L. Carlo in Journal of Australansian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, that was the first study to use clinical data to link wireless technology-related (electro-magnetic radiation) EMR in the environment to Autism. Much more research will need to be done in this area, but it is an exciting initial study that looks into possible correlation between EMR (cell phones wireless devices, etc...), and pulling out heavy metals from patients with Autism.

Tha authors conclude that, "heavy metal detoxification was greatly facilitated by the elimination of EMR from the treatment environment" in the Autism patients being observed in the study.