Re: Hair pulling & nail biting

[Guest guest]

> My daughter has been pulling her hair and biting her nails some

> lately. I thought it was yeast, but she is not showing the other

signs

> that she has with yeast. She is sleeping fine and is not acting

> spacey. She is doing very well in all other respects. Could this be

a

> deficiency of some kind? Could it be bacteria? Any thoughts

> appreciated.--Tod

For my son who is 6 (PDD-NOS), on round 38 of ALA only, the hair

pulling is an expression of his OCD, he has PANDAS which is a post

infectious autoimmune cause of OCD, his symptoms come and go with

infections stress etc, the first time the symptoms appeared was 6

weeks after a severe viral infection with sackie B virus. 5 HTP

and inositol help but unfortuneately also make him extremely hyper so

we can't use it. Did your daughter have a recent illness? The nail

biting for my guy was related to mineral def. and helped with mineral

supplements

[Guest guest]

> My daughter has been pulling her hair and biting her nails some

> lately.

In my family, this means yeast.

>> I thought it was yeast, but she is not showing the other signs

> that she has with yeast. She is sleeping fine and is not acting

> spacey.

For my kids, not all yeast issues cause the same symptoms.

I have also read messages that it can be mineral deficiency,

especially zinc.

Dana

[Guest guest]

No recent illness. What minerals did you supp. for the nail biting??

-- In , " rgtarheel " <downieg@m...>

wrote:

>

> > My daughter has been pulling her hair and biting her nails some

> > lately. I thought it was yeast, but she is not showing the other

> signs

> > that she has with yeast. She is sleeping fine and is not acting

> > spacey. She is doing very well in all other respects. Could this

be

> a

> > deficiency of some kind? Could it be bacteria? Any thoughts

> > appreciated.--Tod

>

> For my son who is 6 (PDD-NOS), on round 38 of ALA only, the hair

> pulling is an expression of his OCD, he has PANDAS which is a post

> infectious autoimmune cause of OCD, his symptoms come and go with

> infections stress etc, the first time the symptoms appeared was 6

> weeks after a severe viral infection with sackie B virus. 5 HTP

> and inositol help but unfortuneately also make him extremely hyper

so

> we can't use it. Did your daughter have a recent illness? The nail

> biting for my guy was related to mineral def. and helped with

mineral

> supplements

[Guest guest]

We used brainchild mineral worked in about 1-2 months