Re: Magnesium & misc.

December 28, 2006

Thanks for the post about magnesium. I will definitely tuck this away

and will start supplementing for magnesium. I've long wondered about

the calcium RDA in our country -- we have some of the highest calcium

intakes and also a high hip fracture rate, while other countries like

Singapore have lower calcium intakes and lower hip fracture rates.

Magnesium and other deficiencies in the US population are probably

significan factors for this. One thing to note about magnesium is that

high magnesium intake may not be safe for people whose kidneys are not

up to par, because the body can't eliminate the excess magnesium fast

enough.

On a separate note, I wanted to add a recommendation for two other

posts I saw a while ago - omega 3 supplementation and how to get your

kids to drink Miralax. The one omega 3 my daughter will take (and she

is a very selective eater) is Children's DHA from Nordic Naturals.

They are little strawberry flavored pea-sized gel capsules, and she

really likes them! I call them strawberry poppers, so the term cod

liver oil doesn't turn her off. She just chews them and spits out the

empty gel capsule. Nordic Naturals is pharmaceutical grade so they

have removed the mercury and PCB's, and have their product 3rd party

tested. They also make a point to use the freshest fish.

The only way I could get my daughter to drink a full dose of Miralax

when she was on it was to mix it in with Swiss Miss hot chocolate or

juice " pop " (carbonated juice). It used to be very difficult to get

her to drink water at all (until recently, she'd drink maybe just

several tablespoons of water a day if I didn't push her to drink

more). (But this wasn't the cause of her constipation, because

adequate fluid intake did not help her constipation noticeably. So I

had to use her sweet tooth to get her to drink enough. (I did not feel

good about all the sugar, but she would not drink enough Miralax any

other way).

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