Hey Jenny, we're getting ready to try Kirkman's calcium powder. Can you give me some advice on dosing and administration? How much do you give? Kirkman's said "between 500mg and 25oo mg .. that's a wide range!  And I know it has to be given apart from zinc, but how far apart? We give zinc 3 times a day in his drink on an empty stomach (waking, after school, and before dinner), and again as a transdermal cream at bedtime. Can the calcium be given at a meal, sprinkled on food, or is it like other minerals, where best absorption is on an empty stomach? And if this is true, how do you get a powder in the kid on an empty stomach? Does it dissolve in water?

Thanks for any advice you or listmates have ...

Suzanne

-------------- Original message from Jenny Kalis <j_kalis@...>: --------------

My super allergic kids started on the Kirkman's
calcium powder, B6 and zinc, along with the Nordic CLO
and did fine. My son now uses Nu Thera, taurine, and
Co Q10 by Metabolic Maintenance. He also uses Perque
Potent C Powder and the Enduraguard PAK (glutamine
supp.) We also use Mindlinx and Klaire's for
probiotics. We have had some aggitation with the
Brainchild Vits. but I still plan to keep trying them
in order to boost minerals. We also plan to get back
on the Intestimend this summer (we had to give this
one some time). We now also use the Houston's
enzymes. My kids are allergic to everything and these
have all been good, with the exception of the
Brainchild causing the aggitation, but I hear in some
this wears off.

Jenny
--- santonapal <pals@corning.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks Suzanne for the input on vitamins. We did try
> Supernuthera
> from Kirkm ans for multivitamins. Neel had diarrhea;
> Dr. Cutler told
> us to stop as it is apparently not tolerated by some
> kids (I want to
> trial it again since at the time Neel younger
> brother also had a
> stomach bug). Since this approach did not work, we
> have been
> trialling B6 in small doses while we continue with
> B12 injections.
> Unfortunately I am not seeing much improvements
> (except for some
> improvement in eye contact) from anything yet. I
> dont expect to see
> any results until I can reach the high dosage of
> B6/Mg that has
> worked for others. However, we always have some
> other negatives that
> seem to come in the way after 3 weeks of
> introduction.
>
> I am continuing with the mB12 injections since Neel
> had one mutation
> in the MTHFR gene and because he is playing with his
> tongue (a known
> side effect) indicating it is doing something in his
> system. I had
> read that Dr. Neubrander was going to disclose his
> study on nasal
> mB12. I did not know that the pathways of action are
> different.
> Perhaps we need to try that route too. Is this
> protocol on his web
> page yet??
> Santona
>
>
>
>
>

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