ALA Dosing - Problems cough/burning after swallowing- Help!

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We are going to start an oral ALA round (our first) tomorrow. We are

still not sure how to dose her at night - fruity juices vs. fruity

semi-solids/slushes, since we are having trouble with dosing in liquids.

My PDDdaughter, normal son and I (the latter two taste testers only for

now) can take ALA when mixed with semi-solids with no problems - taste

is fine and it goes down easily with apple sauce, fruit juice

concentrate " slush " or berry sorbet. When mixed with juices that mask

the flavor well, like purple grape juice, orange juice, etc. all three

of us swallow, then a few seconds later feel almost like (mild) caustic

fumes in the back of our throat and start coughing as if the throat is

irritated/itchy/coughy, and takes a number of coughs to clear this

irritation. This has happened with both Kirkman and Puritan's Pride

ALA capsules (which I then open and split as I mix it into stuff) at

doses that are appropriate - like 15 mg-25 mg, less if you consider

they are being sipped and we start coughing before we've finished our

juice. I don't see how I can make it even more concentrated (and not

be gagging) or less, because my child does not take coaching that well

and won't drink half a cup of juice 8x a day and at night on demand.

Please help!

I wonder if any others have this problem with ALA and have found ways

to get around it if you dose at night - I don't hear anyone doing

semisolids like apple sauce or sorbet - all the recent posts about

night dosing focus on syringe and bottles and childlike sucking/nursing

reflexes. Does a half-asleep child swallow semi-solids well, or is

this of necessity something we will probably have to wake our daughter

to avoid choking? I certainly don't want to try the liquid ALA if it

means she is going to wake up coughing and gagging (which usually means

frustration and screaming and is simply not sustainable for the

long-term), yet I want her to take things without waking up too much

and want to benefit from her instincting mouthing/ swallowing reflexes.

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