Re: question?magnesium KIM

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Hello Kim,

I read

your email and some of the things you mentioned, made me think of my son.If

you give magnesium supplements to your son did you have to query it first

with your doc, or is it harmless and therefore you can just administer it

yourself? sorry if this seems a little naive, but I would appreciate your

advice.

Jackie Mum to Sonny 19mnth From: kpaynecows@....

>Reply-To: cfparents

>To: FPWILLSON@..., cysticfibrosis@...,

>cfparents , TouchedbyCF

>Subject: CF: low magnesium warning

>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 02:27:40 EST

>

>Fred: I think the following is important and people on the Cystic-L should

>read and heed. I'm no longer on the Cystic-L, so will you please forward

>this message to that list? Thanks.

>Love to you both,

>Kim

>

>Hi,

>

>A couple months ago someone posted to the Cystic-L about facial pain or

>spasm

>and wondered about it's cause. I responded to the List that I sometimes

>get

>this too and was interested in learning more.

>

>Perhaps now I know why. I've known for several years that magnesium

>deficiency is linked to asthma and migraines but I didn't realize the full

>scope of deficiency. Apparently, many things we've seen people describe on

>the CF lists are linked to magnesium deficiency: asthma, migraines,

>depression, ADD, fibromyalgia, etc.

>

>Yesterday I started searching the Internet for magnesium and asthma because

>I

>wanted to see if there is a link between low magnesium and CF -- and also

>perhaps a correlation showing low magnesium and high lung acidity. As some

>of you know there is research indicating higher acidity in CF lungs, which

>is

>responsible for that nice bacterial breeding ground.

>

>Today I found an article that points to hypomagnesium (low magnesium) and

>face pain. For that person who wrote a couple months ago, I've copied a

>quote from the article hoping she/he will see it. HOWEVER, there is also

>something more important for everyone to read: a link between

>aminoglycides,

>especially tobramycin, and hypomagnesium. So please keep reading past the

>short quote because this may apply to you, your child, spouse or patient.

>

>[A patient with hypomagnesemia may also produce Chvostek's sign, which is a

>facial spasm caused when the doctor taps gently over the facial nerve. This

>condition of painful intermittent muscle contractions and spasms is known

>as

>tetany.]

>

>After reading the full article, a friend and I did a very fast online

>search

>for magnesium and she found an English medical abstract linking low

>magnesium

>to tobramycin articles. I was astounded and hope that people will ask their

>CF doctors to begin including magnesium levels when checking lab work --

>even

>if you're not using aminoglycide antibiotics.

>

>I'm now wondering if there is a link between low magnesium and CF carriers

>(which might explain the sometimes facial pain I get, along with

>migraines).

>And I'm still wondering about any link between lung acidity and low

>magnesium.

>

>If you have any information about past proven research or works in

>progress,

>I would be most grateful if you would share the information.

>

>In the meantime I've decided to include extra magnesium in my son's daily

>vitamin supplements. He's been inhaling TOBI for so long that I can't help

>but wonder that this may have lowered his magnesium levels. Additional

>magnesium may help ease breathing because of his asthma component.

>

>If anyone would like copies of the links to this material, please email me.

>

>My best to all...

>Kim

>kpaynecows@...

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