Guest guest Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 > > > > Dear , > > > > I was out of town for a week...its taken days to catch up on > email, > > and you can imagine in addition, how many new messages have posted > > on this site. I almost missed this one. Anyway, hopefully some of > my > > posts today will answer your questions. You will not find > anything > > to read on vitamin E and apraxia, because there is no data. This > is > > a totally new observation...and now a growing case series of > apraxic > > children who are doing better on vitamin E plus fish oil. But if > > you google " Merck manual and vitamin E deficiency " , you will see a > > nice table of symptoms of vitamin E deficiency. The symptoms > overlap > > those of apraxia/dyspraxia and SID. This is the table that nearly > > gave me a coronary back in July, when I first started to look for > > info on vitamin E after ph surged when switched to omega 3 > > capsules from liquid, only to start to regress again several days > > after switching back to the liquid. The only difference in the > > liquid and capsules was the vitamin E, and on the high doses of > > omega we are using...he was getting only 100 IU extra E a day for > > about a week, and we saw some amazing and obvious changes that I > > needed to try to explain. So improvement was seen even with small > > addition of vit E, but when I started to supplement him with > higher > > doses, that is when we began our road to recovery. But it was > > reading the Merck manual website that made me suspect that a > vitamin > > E deficiency might be playing a role in apraxia...at least in my > > son's case...a discovery that has changed our lives. - > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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