Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Hi , Can you get the Tropical Oasis at a local pharm store? Does this work in a similar way as citrate of magnesium for cleaning out the bowels? thanks for the suggestions. karen maryebe <eberlein@...> wrote: Yes! Actually, I do have a good suggestion for this! We use the Tropical Oasis brand liquid calcium and magnesium. I give my kids 2 tablespoons every day, and they like the way it tastes. I'd also suggest adding some vitamin C to help with constipation - will your child drink those emergenC fizzy drinks? You just empty the packet in water. It tastes pretty good. > In 2 weeks I was able to get him off of Miralax. I don't have > perfect recall -- but I think I did 500mg for several days, then > took Miralax down to 12mg (from 17-20mg), then took Miralax down to > every other day -- but stool was too firm, so took Mag up to 750mg, > then stool was too loose, cut out Miralax entirely and he was fine. > He gets on average 750-1000mg of magnesium per day. If it's a > heavy fruit day I can cut it back a little. I use magnesium citrate > most of the time, but have been been trying 250mg crushed magnesium > oxide and 500 mg citrate and that > seems to be working fine. Tried calm child (icky taste), cal-mag > fizz (ick) and kirkman's has been the best so far. I was going to > order oxypowder but I'd rather try a pill or two before I fork over > nearly $50. I'm hoping to test in a few weeks to make sure his > calcium/magnesium and potassium levels are OK. > Even though it appears that this is a high dosage --I've found > nothing that makes me worry that this is causing any harm. > BTW -- probiotics haven't made any difference that I can tell. > Enzymes might be helping too -- at least the smell is MUCH reduced. > I'm going to order No-Fenol -- I've heard that has helped some kids, > and I received several as samples and he loved the taste. I wasn't > systematic enough with the samples to see if they had any effect. > > And for the record -- not GFCF, just got tests back from enterob and > everything was negative - no gluten or casein intolerance. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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