Re: fat malabsorption problem - /

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Not too sure , when 's fecal fat test (uh huh, really

pleasant one to get done..) came back as ok, I never went much

further with the why's and how's.

It is pretty unlikely there is anything like that going on, but it

is all I can think of. How have his fat soluble vitamin levels been -

ie, Vit A D and E? If there is a fat absorption/metabolism problem

going on these usually show as deficient, this is why we went down

that path of testing - couldn't get the levels up in a good range

despite a heap of supplementing.

Mebbe a carnitine issue? If too deficient, short and long term fats

might not be metabolising properly?

Not sure whose speciliaty this would be - gastroenterologist I

guess? If anything were to show up as a problem, I presume digestive

enzymes perhaps as a treatment if it was nothing like a carnitine

involved?

> Hi -

> THANKS for responding so soon - I've been very

> preoccupied. I wondered about a fat malabsorption

> problem too - given his levels are so low but what

> would that mean? some strange metabolic disorder? I

> guess that would give me some answers???!!! If it were

> a fat malabsorption problem - is there something that

> can be done?

>

> Yes... these tests were done in a fasting state.

> Hmmmm....

>