Oral Chelation - Is it Better than Intravenous Chelation?

Intravenous Chelation was the most common practice until a few
years back; however, with the introduction of oral chelation it
became the preferred choice of most patients and doctors. There
were a number of contributing factors to this shift of choice,
the prime aspect being the cost factor. Though intravenous
chelation would not cost you a fortune, still the cost will be
way above the price of Oral Chelation. This initiated the use of
oral chelation among the customers who were using intravenous
chelation. Once they started using it on a regular basis the
other benefits of oral chelation became more evident.

Mercury Chelation One of the major advantages of Oral chelation
is its capability to chelate Mercury from the body. EDTA
(Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid) injected in intravenous
chelation cannot bond with Mercury but the organic substances
used in oral chelation agents bonds successfully with mercury
and eliminate them from the body.

Oral Chelation – a painless process Oral chelation involves
nothing but taking 1-2 spoon full of doses of medicine. Most of
these are based on some tasty ingredient like honey or jelly and
are extremely delicious. Intravenous chelation involved painful
process with risk of infection and vascular incision. In
addition, intravenous chelation would often lead to other side
effects like pain, fever, fall of blood pressure etc.

Availability Most of the drugs used for oral chelation are not
prescription drug and are easily available to most of the people.

Side Effects Oral Chelation is mostly free from side effects and
there is hardly any problem with using these chelating agents.
However, if you encounter any minor problems like headache,
fatigue or muscle pain it is advisable to increase your water
intake. 8-10 glasses of water everyday would help the medicine
to work more effectively without any of these occasional side
effects.

Preventive Benefits

Oral chelation therapy is a safe and convenient method of
preventing and curing heavy metal toxicity. The chelating agents
helps in lowering blood cholesterol, prevent blood clots and
reduces heart attacks.

Oral chelation agents like PCA-rx (available at Oral Chelation
Therapy) can also work as a preventive medicine for people
with family history of heart disease, stressful lifestyle and or
unhygienic dietary person.

The only situation in which intravenous chelation might score
over oral chelation is when the patient is under severe
conditions. Oral chelation generally takes a few months to work,
so if the patient is in immediate need for medicines intravenous
chelation may be a better option than oral chelation.