Re: Re: Sudden weight loss, yellowing skin and lassitude and pallor - help, please?

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Yellow hands and yellow feet make me think of inability to convert B-carotene to retinol. This depends on a well-functioning thyroid. Maybe have his TSH tested? Yawning and lasitude would point in this direction also. You could try testing his temperature first thing in the morning before he gets out of bed. To: Autism-Biomedical-Europe Sent:

Thursday, 8 March 2012, 23:29 Subject: Re: Sudden weight loss, yellowing skin and lassitude and pallor - help, please?

I shall ask them to test for this as well tomorrow as they should be doing a blood test.

Thanks,

Margaret

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> First thing that springs to mind is chloesterol, have you had his checked lately, i was reading (only the other day) ina's story (Dr Shaw's step daughter) its at the bottom of the page on following link, might be worth getting tested for it.

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> http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/cholesterol.asp

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> To: Autism-Biomedical-Europe

> From: m.collins9@...

> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:39:35 +0000

> Subject: Sudden weight loss, yellowing skin and lassitude and pallor - help, please?

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> Reports from school and a visitor to school yesterday say H has yellow hands and feet , perhaps body, too. Also yawning, lassitude, pallor and constantly asking for food. And the visitor said he's lost a lot of weight since they last saw him 2 weeks ago. (He looked fine on Monday. as far as I was concerned.)

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> I and the epilepsy nurse at Addenbrooke's have persuaded the school to take him to the doc and get a liver function test tomorrow morning.

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> I am very worried it could be the Tegretol or something else serious. He went off Monday morning just fine.

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> He's been on the GAPS diet for 4 months and has slowly lost a bit of excess weight and his pot belly went down - but this sounds worrying.

> Any ideas, please? He's not on many supplements.

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> If necessary I shall whisk him off to hospital (A & E five minutes away)when he gets home mid afternoon.

> Margaret

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