Re: Got an IGg for Rubella, Advice please

[Guest guest]

You might want to re-think this and really look into it. A while ago

some of the kids were getting ill on that vitamin A protocol and

there was some retraction of it and qualifiers put on it. Apparently

it wasn't thoroughly tested and was more on speculation that

it 'should' work versus tested that it would work.

Vitamin A can be helpful for overall health and is associated with

supporting the immune system and is an antioxidant. So it might be

beneficial to look into supplementing it. However, before you get

into mega-dosing anything, you might want to work with a nutritionist

or doctor because it is one that can be toxic. A non-mega dose might

tell give you good benefits too.

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[Guest guest]

> I finally got the results for the IGg and IGM for my son for

Rubella. The

> IGm was normal but the IGg was 41 with a reference range of 0.1-4.9. Is

> this test enough to do the vitamin A protocol as per Doctor McCandless?

So far as I know, high dose vitamin A protocol is for rubeola

[measles], not rubella.

> Should I wait to get the book before I do anything?

I have her recommendations on my site here

http://www.danasview.net/vitamina.htm

> Also to parents who've done this, have you also used something besides

> vitamin A like Dana who used GSE as well. Or did you find the vitamin A

> enough.

My son needed a higher dose than recommended by Dr. McCandless. I had

also added OLE, but I don't know if that was what made it work, or the

higher dose of vitamin A.

I don't recall using GSE with this protocol.

Good luck.

Dana

[Guest guest]

>>>> Can you direct me to a site or info on any of the negatives?

Here is an 'official' qualifier, and there might have been discussion

on this in that group. I think it was interesting that it starts out

by faulting the parents (blame the mother) even though it was said

this strategy was based on speculation and literature reviews and

then sent out for people to consider.

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For additional information you might check some of the detox groups

and see what other particulars there are/were, and if they are

relevant to your situation. I read that liver problems are a concern

but I don't know what the particulars of it are. Just that excess A

is stored in the liver and this becomes a problem.

Another thing to keep in mind is the difference in short term vitamin

A supplementation versus long term (6 months or more). Various

studies note that high vitamin A can affect bone density (weaken

bones) but this is likely only with long term use. You probably know

that difference sources of vitamin A can be cummulative already, and

different forms of A have different effects. Maybe there is one form

that is more 'safe' or 'problematic' than another. This first link

outlines effects of acute (short term) and chronic (long term) extra

vitamin A. Then there are some quick things I found.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000350.htm

http://www.tufts.edu/communications/stories/011001VitaminLimitsSet.htm

http://www.wizardofeyez.com/vitamina.html

So as with other things, there is a window where too little vitamin A

can be a problem as well as too much much. Good luck with what you

find out. Please post if you find anything really interesting.

.

[Guest guest]

> On that note, what makes him so sensitive to pain? He fell off his bike

> today and the mild scrape he got make him cry for 20 minutes. I'm not

> saying it wasn't sore, but his younger brother and sister would not

cry so

> long for the same thing so something makes him 'feel' it more. I'm sure

> I've read that it is a lack of something.

For my #2, after certain interventions, he lost his INsensitivity to

pain. So he would start to feel pain more normally, but he would

interpret it as excessive pain [because to him, it WAS more excessive

than it had ever been]. Each time this happened [three times so far],

it took about 3 months for his reactions to sensations to normalize.

Dana