Don't feel guilty, you are doing your best.
I think night doses are very important and cannot be catch up during
the day. You could try mixing the ALA in other stuff, specially ones
that your child likes. Did you try nut butter? You could also try
different types of juice, some hide the taste better than others.
If you mix the ALA with the food just before giving it, you can mix
it with any food you want.

Good luck!

--- In Autism-Mercury@yahoogroups.com, "cubicmonica"
<cubicmonica@y...> wrote:
> After 5 rounds of ALA I feel everything is going smoothly but those
> doses during the night are a big problem. My son is 4 and cannot
> swallow pills. I have been giving him ALA mixed in his juice.
> During the day he will drink about 4 oz of juice but at night it
has
> been a real fight. At first I tried to mix it in 4 oz like during
> the day but could not get him to finish it. I started then to try
to
> mix it in a smaller amount of juice so there is less to drink but
> then it tasted bad. This last time I resorted to getting a syringe-
> looking liquid medicine dispenser and mixed his ALA in about a
> tablespoon of juice. He and I are both tired and he puts up quite
a
> fight. When I go into his room he gears up. He pushes, hits and
> wiggles to get away from me. I have to hold his head still and
force
> it down him. When it is all done about half the juice is on the
> walls, floor and our clothes. Not a pretty picture. Now I find
when
> I wake him up in the morning during off days he pushes me away for
> fear I am going to give him something.
> How do you all cope with this? How harmful is it that he is not
> really getting his full dose in the night since so much is lost in
> the fight? A couple times I actually turned the alarm off and
slept
> through a dosage because I just couldn't bear to deal with it. Is
> this harmful? If he does not get a full dosage during the night do
I
> try to make up during the day or just give the same amount?
>
> Monica