Re: carnitine/depakote/Barb

[Guest guest]

Sorry for the delay Barb, I missed this one somehow - here's the full

details of the refs...

'L-carnitine Supplementation in Childhood Epilepsy : Current Perspectives'

; De Vivo et al ; Epilepsia 39 (11) : 1216-1225, 1998.

I tried to search on-line to get my own copy to save on disc, but I haven't

been able to get to the full article, the one (hard copy) I am reading here

is copied from our neuro's Journal of Child Neurology. I have seen summaries

of this one before though when just plugging in search words like

'carnitine/depakote/diet etc' but have never actually had the whole thing to

read before now.

Reading through it again, it makes me think that when any carn def symptoms

at all show, (slow growth, fat storage, weakness, excercise intolerance,

trouble maintaining high ketones, and er seizures), it pays to hike up the

doses to a max, especially when on a dep/diet combination.

If you have no more luck than me accessing the full article online, let me

know, and I'll ask hubby to try and scan this one - I myself have NO idea

how to scan, and our scanner is temperamental thing, but it might be worth a

go,

----- Original Message -----

> , would you be able to scan or email the journal copy? Or can I

access

> it on the web? Sounds interesting....(that is, as interesting as any of

> this stuff is....!)

> Good luck...

> Barb