Aluminum and Ammonia--------How do I correct this?

[Guest guest]

I just got my sons first hair test back and it says he is high in

Aluminum and that can result in toxic levels of ammonia. The range is

less than 8 and he was a 15. I know someone had posted about

controlloing ammonia levels in their child yesterday. Now I am

wondering if this is why my son is stimming. (I think they said that

was a sign of it-that it could resemble yeast.) Has anyone else had

this result? What did you do about it? What can I do? He was also

high in Copper and Chromium but low in Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium,

Potasium, Manganese, Cobalt, Vanadium, Boron, Lithium and Selenium.

Now I have the results, I just don't know what to do!

Thanks for any advice you can give!

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This is so interesting that this topic keeps coming up. My son is dumping tons of lead and aluminum. Granted, there is some aluminum in the chelator so you have to account for that but I know my son's aluminum was high to begin with. My son also eats a ton of protein, which from what I've recently read can cause high ammonia. Someone posted that her son's ammonia was high and that his symptoms were throwing fits and seeking head pressure - exactly what my son has been doing the past couple of months - always has had the head thing but the fits started recently, although he has had bouts of them in the past. She said she gives Yucca w/dinner (a high protein meal) and that the symptoms have disappeared. I cannot recall if she has done more labwork yet to see if the ammonia has gone down.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have made an effort to decrease my son's protein somewhat (he still eats it 3x/day) by adding in more veggies to burgers, etc. and offering more carb alternatives (SCD legal and illegal). His symptoms (head pressure and fits) have also disappeared and his focus, fidgetiness, on and off giddiness have also improved, things I always attributed to yeast.

Now he is sick so I can't really gauge anything until he gets better BUT I'm thinking he may have had high ammonia for quite awhile since he's always eaten a lot of protein, especially since going SCD (which we are not anymore but still very healthy and SCD-like) but that we didn't know it and always treated it as yeast. The symptoms came and went but for the most part were always there and now that we are addressing it as ammonia, he is improving.

Does this make any sense? Anyway, I am glad to see this ongoing discussion about ammonia and hope some DAN docs pick up that this could be an issue for a lot of kids.

Dana (Also started l-theanine, which I attribute to some of the focus/calmness gains)

-----Original Message-----From: mb12 valtrex [mailto:mb12 valtrex ]On Behalf Of kptertSent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:52 AMTo: mb12 valtrex Subject: Aluminum and Ammonia--------How do I correct this?

I just got my sons first hair test back and it says he is high in Aluminum and that can result in toxic levels of ammonia. The range is less than 8 and he was a 15. I know someone had posted about controlloing ammonia levels in their child yesterday. Now I am wondering if this is why my son is stimming. (I think they said that was a sign of it-that it could resemble yeast.) Has anyone else had this result? What did you do about it? What can I do? He was also high in Copper and Chromium but low in Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potasium, Manganese, Cobalt, Vanadium, Boron, Lithium and Selenium. Now I have the results, I just don't know what to do!Thanks for any advice you can give!