Close to 100 of my borreliosis patients have been tested for lead, mercury, cadmium, tin and other toxic elements. About two-thirds have elevated levels. Another physician that helps a lot of borreliosis patients has found the same thing. Toxic metal elevations can cause the same symptoms as borreliosis. As far as is known, ticks do not cause these toxic elements. However, the toxic metals just might be one of the “straws” that is “breaking the back” of your health.
Borreliosis patients often feel better when their toxic metal elevations are treated, but are not helped as much as by antibiotics, heparin and hormones. Still, it is still reasonable to test for this. As with hormones testing, I use a twenty-four hour urine collection test.
Patients are asked to start the urine collection for toxic elements in the morning, and to then undergo a total body massage. I have a theory that the body tries to wall off toxins so they do not exert their toxic influence in the tissues of the body. I believe a massage helps mobilize those walled-off toxins elements so that they may get into the blood system and then show up in the urine for a more accurate test. I prefer a deep massage if patients can handle it, but some who have borreliosis are in too much pain for even a light massage.
Some medical doctors give patients prescriptions for drugs that pull toxic metals out of the body into the urine; however, there is no normal range for this. Other physicians test hair for toxic metals, but who knows what toxic elements might be in shampoos, conditioners, perms, dyes or other hair products? I have more peace with urine testing. If you test urine specimens, you know for sure the toxics elements came out of the body.