I usually take a piece of peach or some other sweet fruit, insert 2
small capsules - with DMSA and with ALA - in the peach and put it
into his mouth at night. He chews the peach, swallows the capsules
without waking up and continues to sleep.
Yes, you have to give the same dose at night as during the day.
Margaret
--- In Autism-Mercury@yahoogroups.com, Julia Luo <cluo@i...> wrote:
> I really need help to keep going with my son's
> chelation treatment. How do you give night
> doses? Does it matter if the doses are lower?
> I started my son on combined ALA/DMSA
> yesterday. He seemed to do just fine during
> the day. However, I had a great deal of trouble
> with night doses. The bottle says that you need
> to give two onces of water to go with 25 mg (I
> use 20) of ALA. Same with DMSA. So I dilute
> both ALA and DMSA into 2 onces of water. I woke
> up my son at 1:00 and 4:30 am and tried to give
> the water to him. Boy, was it a nightmare. He
> has had sleep problems all his life until
> recently, and now all the hell broke lose
> again. I could barely get 1/4 of the medicated
> liquid in him, and then I had to stay up for
> another hour to calm him down. He cried and
> kicked and started the whole drama when he used
> to have sensory problems at night. Now I am
> completely exhausted. Can someone give me some
> advice about what to do? Also, what happens
> when you child only takes 1/4 of the doses at
> night? Am I doing harm to him? Or, is the
> frequency more important than the dosage?
> Finally, when following ALA/DMSA with only DMSA,
> do you also have to be consistent with DMSA?
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
>
> Julia
>
>
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