, dosing zinc (was Michele/was: Re: DMSA question...)

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After hearing my oldest NT kid grind her teeth like crazy when I woke to give us

our

nighttime dose of chelator, I remembered you saying you were dosing zinc at

weight plus

20 mgs. She chews and chews at the fingernails and cuticles during the day.

We're going to experiment and dose at weight plus 20 mgs instead of half weight

plus 20

mgs. I read some at PDR Health re: zinc, and nothing I read was too alarming.

I pulled up this message (178755) from July, and I have a question. Why do you

dose the

extra zinc only during the round and day after? Because you feel the chelator

(esp. DMSA)

is pulling zinc?

We are doing rounds of ALA only, and every 4 rounds or so doing one round of ALA

+

DMSA.

If anyone else has something to add re: dosing zinc, grinding teeth and chewing,

please

do.

in Illinois, round 33

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> Hi Michele,

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> No typo, is what we have done, any less and we find her putting things in her

mouth and

recently we have also noticed intermittent grinding her teeth at night, although

I think that

is due to her having trouble moving calcium around like she should (long

standing

problem for her).

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> We are using dmsa/ala oral at 14mgs both. We have used Ala alone and it does

not

seem to pull the zinc like dmsa does. We dose at weight + 20 mgs just prior to

the round

and end the day after. Excess zinc, I have read, can be neurotoxic also, so

always timid

about giving too much, but we use the above symptoms as far as dosing.

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> It is best to give zinc on an empty stomach, but when we did this she

complained of

stomach aches and zinc is irritating to the stomach. Also, best to give zinc

away from

calcium, I have read, but we don't do that either, too much dosing.

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> If she eats late at night before she goes to bed, as she sometimes does, we

will give a

little extra zinc, without the calcium, and that seems to help.

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