HIGH Dose Vitamin E & Other Questions!

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Hi!

I'd like to start by saying that this message board has been a source

of great information for me!! My son is almost 3-years old and

appears to be somewhere on the autism spectrum. He is clearly

apraxic and appears to have dyspraxia as well…poor gross and fine

motor skills.

My main reason in posting this is to get some feedback about HIGH

doses of Vitamin E. Although my son isn't what I would

consider `verbal' yet, I have seen incredible results from giving him

Vitamin E! I started by adding 400 IU (a natural brand that includes

the Gamma) and he started using sign lanuage. I bumped it up to 800

IU and he began to do gross motor imitation. This was his single

biggest problem in his preschool ABA therapy program – gross motor

imitation. He literally went from doing none at all, to me picking

him up from school one day and being told that he had done everything

asked of him! He is now doing MANY signs, saying a few words, and

attempting to say a lot of what we ask of him.

This past week I did a little test…on Wednesday I gave him only 400

IU Vitamin E before school and based on his ABA data sheet for the

day he didn't have a very remarkable day. For the first time Friday

I gave him 1200 IU of Vitamin E (3 – 400 IU capsules) and he had an

INCREDIBLE day!

So this leads me to my main question – what is the max amount of

Vitamin E I can safely give him per day? I'd really love to hear

from some of you who have given higher doses. I've done a lot of

reading up on past posts and I keep finding that 1200 IU seems to be

the upper limit, but I'm also coming across some information about 66

IU per pound of body weight being acceptable to treat children with

apraxia or dyspraxia. My son is about 27 pounds, so based on that

equation 1800 IU would be his limit.

I also want to say that based on testing through our DAN doctor, my

son was extremely deficient in Vitamin E. He actually scored lower

in Vitamin E than the lowest safe/average range. So I'm going into

this knowing that he is very deficient in Vitamin E, as well as

having a problems digesting fats, and a host of other biomed ASD

issues. My gut is telling me that I will continue to see

improvements if I keep adding 400 IU capsules of Vitamin E, but of

course I'm concerned with pushing it past the 1200 IU's for safety

reasons. I have also added some Vitamin K2 into his supplement mix

as well as some phosphatidyl choline.

I also have a couple quick questions about the EFA's. I notice that

most of you give you children the capsules. Is there any particular

reason you use capsules instead of the liquid? I am currently giving

my son 1 teaspoon of Nordic Naturals Artic Cod Liver Oil plus a 240mg

capsule of GLA (Omega-6 which he was very deficient based on

testing). I keep looking at the Omega 3-6-9 and other products and I

don't think he would be getting more DHA, EPA or GLA that way? If

there is something I'm missing, please someone explain it to me!

Well thanks so much for taking the time to read this! Again, if any

of you who have experience using the higher doses of Vitamin E could

give me a little advice or insight I would greatly appreciate it. I

just wonder if I push the Vitamin E closer to 2000 IU if the speech

would start to come?!

My email is ashkpark@... if anyone would rather respond off of

the board.

Thanks so much!