Re:Waking way too early

[Guest guest]

We’ve been giving my son various doses of melatonin

for a couple of years. It puts him out pretty quickly but he can awake later if

he’s not tired enough. If your son can handle swallowing a pill (mine can’t

so we use sublingual) there’s a type that is both rapid release and

sustained released. The sustained part doesn’t dissolve as fast in the GI

tract so it will release later, from what I know.

Yes, it’s a hormone, I was concerned about the effects

on gonadal development but I haven’t found out if truly detrimental.

Wikipedia tells how it’s an antioxidant so it does have positive

qualities.

Steph T.

http://teach-speak.blogspot.com/

[Guest guest]

Also, the brand I got but can’t use is Nature’s

Plus -- Sleep Assure (Rapid Release/Sustained Release). Found it at vitamin

shoppe.

[Guest guest]

Melatonin works for this, but if you use it a 4:20 you should only use a very tiny dose, as our bodies begin shutting down the production of melatonin as day breaks. You don't want to further confuse his system. I have given on 2 occasions .75 mg at about 4:30 am. My son returned to sleep w/in 20 mins and woke up at the correct time. He is 4 1/2 and weighs 42 lbs. It seemed to straighten his system out as well (one time was after Daylight Savings and the other was during a vacation to a state with a time zone 1 hour earlier than ours).Hope this helps some,

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[Guest guest]

The supplements to aide with sleep aren't really addressing the whole

problem. Night waking associated with liver. I would take a good

look at diet especially fats. Your child as does the human body

needs good fats. Silymarin to address liver and I also make a warm

lemonade to sip in am before consuming foods.

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> We've been giving my son various doses of melatonin for a couple of

years.

> It puts him out pretty quickly but he can awake later if he's not

tired

> enough. If your son can handle swallowing a pill (mine can't so we

use

> sublingual) there's a type that is both rapid release and sustained

> released. The sustained part doesn't dissolve as fast in the GI

tract so it

> will release later, from what I know.

>

>

>

> Yes, it's a hormone, I was concerned about the effects on gonadal

> development but I haven't found out if truly detrimental. Wikipedia

tells

> how it's an antioxidant so it does have positive qualities.

>

>

>

> Steph T.

>

> http://teach-speak.blogspot.com/

>

[Guest guest]

Doesn’t Silymarin or Milk Thistle affect how

medications are processed through the liver so taking something for the liver

could mess up how the anti-virals are processed?

[Guest guest]

Also, my DAN doc said to get off the milk thistle that I had him on,

because we were starting this anti-viral/anti-fungal - I can ask him if

it's because of the reason I mentioned earlier but he did say the

charcoal does mess up the action of the meds because it binds to

everything. It seems like if liver support supplements act to block out

toxins that it could do the same to meds.

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> Doesn't Silymarin or Milk Thistle affect how medications are processed

> through the liver so taking something for the liver could mess up how

the

> anti-virals are processed?

>