Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 with my son teeth grinding stoped with calcium/ magnesium supplimentation. [ ] Teeth Grinding > My three year old son just started to grind his teeth in his sleep. My husband thinks it is because his sleep is disturbed due to his 10:30 pm DMPS dose after he is asleep and my son is feeling stressed about being woken up. Any other ideas out there before I battle the " waking the kid up " disagreement? > > Thanks. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Hi , I had a friend who has since died who said that long ago mothers knew their children had worms(parasites)when they would grind their teeth.Maybe a comprehensive stool and parasitology test from Great Smokies will fill in pieces of the puzzle. Just my opinion, R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 > My three year old son just started to grind his teeth in his sleep. My husband thinks it is because his sleep is disturbed due to his 10:30 pm DMPS dose after he is asleep and my son is feeling stressed about being woken up. Any other ideas out there before I battle the " waking the kid up " disagreement? Yeast will do this for me. Also, adding magnesium and zinc help. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 With my son grinding teeth is due to stress. The stress might also be caused by being cold or by having worms or by needing the toilet. Dagmar. [ ] Teeth Grinding My three year old son just started to grind his teeth in his sleep. My husband thinks it is because his sleep is disturbed due to his 10:30 pm DMPS dose after he is asleep and my son is feeling stressed about being woken up. Any other ideas out there before I battle the " waking the kid up " disagreement? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Increase his calcium. Grinding will go away in a short time. We have the same issue. Everytime we add calcium the grinding stops. > --- In , " Lottner " <Lottner@b...> wrote: > > My three year old son just started to grind his teeth in his sleep. My husband thinks it is because his sleep is disturbed due to his > 10:30 pm DMPS dose after he is asleep and my son is feeling stressed about being woken up. Any other ideas out there before I > battle the " waking the kid up " disagreement? > > > Yeast will do this for me. Also, adding magnesium and zinc help. > > Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2004 Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 Somehow I missed the tooth-grinding topic when it first surfaced in 2001; maybe I hadn't noticed it quite yet as I didn't begin actively pursuing help for Kara until 2002. But just to add to the discussion, my daughter Kara (age 5, birthday 1/5/99, diagnosed with apraxia in 2002) is a heavy tooth grinder. It is particularly worse when she is congested. She also has always had great difficulties also at the dentist, who noted that she had a hyper-sensitive gag reflex. It is not surprising, given that Kara's most severe oral motor difficulties were/are with her tongue...when first diagnosed, it was noted that the back and middle of her tongue were completely flaccid. Kara has come such a long way in every sense...according to her private SLP, the back of her tongue is now strong and it's only the middle of her tongue that still needs work. We also just had the first check-up at the dentist where Kara made it all the way through without tears, bless her heart. But the teeth grinding is still bad--she's almost worn her top two baby teeth all the way through and the dentist feels it's time to put a bonding on them to protect them. If Kara grinds them to the point of cracking, she will need root canals. I was really hoping we could hang in there until those baby teeth came out but it doesn't look like we're going to make it so I just made the appointment for the bonding. I am NOT looking forward to it. We have an excellent pediatric dentist who lets me be present at all times, which is the right thing for us. Both Kara's dentist and pediatrician say that there is nothing you can do about teeth grinding; that most kiddos outgrow it at around age 6 and that if she doesn't we'll start looking at options (like a mouth guard, I suppose). On the bright side, if there is indeed a correlation between tooth grinding and speech surges, I sure believe it. With the help of therapy, EFAs, and all and anything else I can think of, Kara has come a long way and I am cautiously optimistic that she was be successful in school--she'll start kindergarten in the fall. The teeth grinding has seemed to correlate to when Kara's speech surges began...which was after she began taking Pro-Efa. My older (non-apraxic) daughter also occasionally grinds her teeth, usually when she is congested. Whether or not it runs in families isn't a consideration for us since we are an adoptive family. Best wishes, Janice , San Diego _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 I am so glad to hear of some kind of connection with teeth grinding to be connected with a mineral deficiency instead of the usual suggestion on having parasites. Not to rule them out but most of us have nutritional problems more. I had a bad case of grinding my teeth even into my adult hood that I had something called a bite made for me to wear while I slept. I also found myself zinc deficient and I always had bad cold that would last for months. Taking zinc really cut short the duration. Also I benefited my immune system by taking different supplements to strengthen my sulfur pathways. And doing a bowel cleanse which is supposed to help your immune system also. So I am reading your post and just thought, when was the last time I had teeth grinding? I can't remember because it was years! I am focused on clearing up other complaints but this surprised me that there is a zinc connection. I grinded my teeth so bad when I was a young child. And I had awful cold/flues to get over then too. I was sick all the time. Nobody could make anything of it. Thats how I got stuck on a bunch of antibiotics too. Liz D. > [Original Message] > From: Cj <gstone98@...> > < > > Date: 9/30/2004 5:30:21 PM > Subject: Re: [ ] (unknown) > > > Teeth grinding is usually a sign of zinc deficiency. > Magnesium can help also. My kids take a Cal/mag/zinc supplement. > -GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Does anyone have a solution for teeth grinding during sleep? We all grind our teeth and are doing damage. I'm particularly worried about my 4 year old who is a very bad teeth grinder. He doesn't seem an anxious or angry child. I have read that it can be a sign of parasite infestation - the sort that don't respond to over-the-counter treatments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 For my son (chelating with oral DMSA), zinc/Ca/Mg supplements were able to stop the grinding in 1-2 days. Hope this information is helpful. Zhaoping On 10/4/05, Selavka <stacylynncollins@...> wrote: > > My son has started teeth grinding again, I don't know > if it has anything to do with just doing our first > round of TD-DMSA or not. > > --- misheemom <michelle@...> wrote: > > > For those of you with teeth grinders...What did you > > find most > > effective in helping your child to stop? Also how > > long did it take > > for the supplements to work on stopping the > > grinding? > > Thanks, > > in NJ > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 I believe teeth grinding is linked to low zinc. Could it be possible you also chelated zinc??? Lillian fjennings@... fldofdrms@... Re: [ ] Teeth grinding My son has started teeth grinding again, I don't know if it has anything to do with just doing our first round of TD-DMSA or not. --- misheemom <michelle@...> wrote: > For those of you with teeth grinders...What did you > find most > effective in helping your child to stop? Also how > long did it take > for the supplements to work on stopping the > grinding? > Thanks, > in NJ > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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