Carnitine?

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Hi,

Here I am completely confused again. One of my twins who has low tone, GCS

sensitivities, leaky gut (I think), had blood work done a while back. I got a

call a few days ago from the children's hospital that some of her blood work

came back 'abnormal'. I know one of the tests she mentioned was carnitine. Now

they are sending her to a metabolic specialist. Can anyone tell me what an

abnormal carnitine test could mean?

A little background - had mild pica as a one-two year old (ate dirt, rocks,

moss). Has gluten, casein and soy sensitivities. Supposedly has inflammation,

malabsorbtion, leaky gut. Has a lot of hair on back and legs (I keep being told

that this is nothing but there has to be something to it - my husband and I are

not hairy people). She also lost quite a bit of hair around the same time that

she had the pica (you could see her scalp). The only other things that have been

brought to my attention are that she is extremely low tone, has unusually high

B12 levels, has a larger than normal head size, and at times has an odd breath

smell (we have ruled out diabetes and hypoglycemia).

Sorry for the long e-mail. We have been to specialist after specialist and now

we have to go to this metabolic specialist (who we already saw and who totally

blew us off the first time). I just wanted to see if anyone here could shed some

light on what might be going on because the doctors can't seem to get on the

same page and piece together this puzzle. Thanks for any advice or info.