I had a fairly identical situation, which has now resolved.

My son was nearly 5 at this time. It was before I even had the hairtest done.
When the hairtest came back and I realized, that he was really very toxic and
that I had to get the stuff out, something changed in my mind (not in him). I
knew that he was going to take his night time doses.

I woke him up, took him out of his bed into a different room and told him he was
not going to go back to sleep until he had taken his ALA.

Now he still doesn't like to take it, but I didn't have to take him out of his
bed for some time anymore. I now use his toy animals to talk to him. I make them
squabble between them, which of them was going to be allowed to give my son his
ALA. After a while he starts to feel sorry for one of his animals and agrees to
have his ALA. The good side effect of this is, that by the time my son had his
ALA, my daughter has been woken enough to take hers without problems.

Dagmar.
> 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.



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