Re: Strains of bacteria in your children's guts

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Bonnie, Anyone that treats autism usually provides these kinds of test kits and certain Chiropractor's..........For those near IL, Pfieffer Treatment Center in Naperville IL does extensive testing with blood, hair, and urine analysis..they test for EVERYTHING! If your looking for stool samples, most Chiropractors carry them. Bonnie Juettner wrote: We had a stool test done, but I think it was just to check for parasites (came back negative, though I've since read that stool tests don't

always detect all kinds of parasites). I'd like to ask our pediatrician to do a stool test for bacteria...but is there a specific test that I should ask for? Thanks! Bonnie On Dec 16, 2007 12:08 AM, littlelief <littleliefhotmail> wrote: I wonder if all of you who have had stool tests performed could justquickly post what strains of bacteria were identified in yourchildren's stools. If we could compile a list of those strains foundin the GI tracts of the children who seemed to have adverse reactionsto Miralax, that might be helpful.Also, it might be informative to know how long your child would gobetween bowel movements while on Miralax/Golytely/other PEG compounds.What was the

dosage (amount and frequency) of Miralax you were giving?Lastly, if you had any lab work (blood, maybe urine?) done to check for metabolic acidosis, osmol gap, etc., while your child was takingMiralax or related products? [Anyone happen to test for ethyleneglycol in the blood while on Miralax?? - that would be ideal andprovide proof positive of PEG breakdown (unless your child had alsoingested antifreeze.)]best,

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Bonnie, Anyone that treats autism usually provides these kinds of test kits and certain Chiropractor's..........For those near IL, Pfieffer Treatment Center in Naperville IL does extensive testing with blood, hair, and urine analysis..they test for EVERYTHING! If your looking for stool samples, most Chiropractors carry them.

Bonnie Juettner wrote:

We had a stool test done, but I think it was just to check for parasites (came back negative, though I've since read that stool tests don't

always detect all kinds of parasites). I'd like to ask our pediatrician to do a stool test for bacteria...but is there a specific test that I should ask for? Thanks! Bonnie

I wonder if all of you who have had stool tests performed could justquickly post what strains of bacteria were identified in yourchildren's stools. If we could compile a list of those strains found

in the GI tracts of the children who seemed to have adverse reactionsto Miralax, that might be helpful.Also, it might be informative to know how long your child would gobetween bowel movements while on Miralax/Golytely/other PEG compounds.

What was the

dosage (amount and frequency) of Miralax you were giving?Lastly, if you had any lab work (blood, maybe urine?) done to check for metabolic acidosis, osmol gap, etc., while your child was takingMiralax or related products? [Anyone happen to test for ethylene

glycol in the blood while on Miralax?? - that would be ideal andprovide proof positive of PEG breakdown (unless your child had alsoingested antifreeze.)]best,