ANDY - severe itching with 4 year old....started with ALA chelation

June 29, 2009

I don't know who else ot ask, two DAN! doctors have gotten us nowhere on this

topic, I am hoping you can help with the mystery itching!!

Our four year old will be going on to round 8 next, we started out with DMSA and

added the ALA at round 6. We have had to use 1.5mg of each, because he is SO

sensitive to the chelation agents. We were seeing severe reactions (sleep

issues, bed wetting, extreme stimming, sensory issues, tics, severe emotion,

spaciness, fatigue, etc) with 1/8mg per pound, so we are down to 1/16mg per

pound. I also just started ACE this week, so far just 1/4 of a capsule per day,

is this enough or should we increase?

Anyway, lately and since we started the ALA, he is itching ALL over his body ALL

the time. It's so bad even in between rounds now (11 day breaks), that he can't

even play a simple game of catch without itching both legs, his head, face,

feet, constantly!! He has always had an issue with swatting at and rubbing his

face, ears and head, but that was either a yeast or bacteria sign (at least I

think?), which subsided with treatment (OoO, Biotin and No Fenol) and now, this

severe itching actually seems to INCREASE with his yeast treatments, plus he is

on Nystatin! So I don't get it. I can't tell if it's an allergy to everything

around him lately (23 IgG foods were removed 8 months ago), stress related,

because it gets worse with stressful situations (and he has trouble with anger

and stress, high stress hormone on OAT) or if it's yeast. We just went off

Diflucan after ten days and we will go back on that in another ten days for ten

more days. We were on flagyl for bacteria as well, ten days for that too. I

don't know what is what lately....He has had some GREAT days recently and I mean

really perfect, but it's never consistent. We will have perfect days and then

awful days, back to back. I don't know what to do for him now. Benedryl does

sometimes reduce the itching...does this mean allergy or is histamine being

released for other reasons?

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