Re: Kim-SCOLIOSIS-Handle & 1 more point for consideration

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I'll have to take the next step and actually visit a Handle practitioner,

especially with 's added

testimony. I'm always happy to pursue reports of " what helped " , and the

least restrictive paths first.

Also, there is much info regarding low bone density and adolescent girls

with idiopathic

scoliosis.

An interesting link from a Charge point of view, that I've been seeing

lately

associates g-j tubes as causing (or accompanying) vitamin D malabsorption,

which of course impacts the available calcium to the bones.

_http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1118.htm_

(http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1118.htm) " Impaired gastrointestinal

absorption: Vitamin D malabsorption

may follow a gastric resection or gastrojejunostomy. The malabsorption

manifests in a patient as osteomalacia several years after surgery "

is post-gtube, and a history of low bone density, despite normal

dietary intake of calcium.

This article suggests calcium sources that may be particularly beneficial

for this specific problem (?).

I know there is such a thing as vitamin D toxicity, and 2 forms of vitamin

D, so perhaps levels

should be checked, and endocrine consult before supplementing D.(?)

I'll ask the nurse side of you for that.

So, a two-sided (internal/external) approach may lead to maximum benefits.

But despite being followed life long at Boston Childrens, no one has ever

suggested this

to me, or recommended any supplementation. I've reported occasional

multivitamin use

by , and Tums for acid/calcium to them in the past 2 years. (Di doesn't

like taking

meds-so left to her own, it doesn't happen consistently) They had nothing

new

to add, and I'm disappointed about that.

in Ma.

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[Guest guest]

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Any time food is not chewed in the mouth, digestion is impacted,

because the chewing and saliva production don't do their roles in

preparing the stomach for what is coming.

And if one looks at nutrition as what the body is able to get out of

the food and make use of through digestion, which is impacted by tone,

stess.... then we know nutrition is impacted again. So just adding

supplements doesn't always help if you don't look at all the variables

(which you do).

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> I'll have to take the next step and actually visit a Handle practitioner,

> especially with 's added

> testimony. I'm always happy to pursue reports of " what helped " , and the

> least restrictive paths first.

>

> Also, there is much info regarding low bone density and adolescent girls

> with idiopathic

> scoliosis.

> An interesting link from a Charge point of view, that I've been seeing

> lately

> associates g-j tubes as causing (or accompanying) vitamin D malabsorption,

> which of course impacts the available calcium to the bones.

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>

> _http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1118.htm_

> (http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1118.htm) " Impaired gastrointestinal

> absorption: Vitamin D malabsorption

> may follow a gastric resection or gastrojejunostomy. The malabsorption

> manifests in a patient as osteomalacia several years after surgery "

>

> is post-gtube, and a history of low bone density, despite normal

> dietary intake of calcium.

> This article suggests calcium sources that may be particularly beneficial

> for this specific problem (?).

>

> I know there is such a thing as vitamin D toxicity, and 2 forms of vitamin

> D, so perhaps levels

> should be checked, and endocrine consult before supplementing D.(?)

> I'll ask the nurse side of you for that.

>

> So, a two-sided (internal/external) approach may lead to maximum benefits.

> But despite being followed life long at Boston Childrens, no one has ever

> suggested this

> to me, or recommended any supplementation. I've reported occasional

> multivitamin use

> by , and Tums for acid/calcium to them in the past 2 years. (Di

> doesn't

> like taking

> meds-so left to her own, it doesn't happen consistently) They had nothing

> new

> to add, and I'm disappointed about that.

>

> in Ma.

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> ************************************** See what's free at

> http://www.aol.com.

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