Re: ot/monolaurin?

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Liane,

I'm so behind in my emails--did anyone ever reply to your post on monolaurin?

When you say your son has " latent strep " are you referring to consistently

elevated strep titer levels? Are you familiar with PANDAS? And

lastly--since I am inundating you with all these questions--what is

monolaurin and where did you read of its effectiveness with strep?

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/4/2002 11:06:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Momlaw@...

writes:

> When you say your son has " latent strep " are you referring to consistently

> elevated strep titer levels? Are you familiar with PANDAS

Hi !

Basically, two of my children and I kept contracting strep repeatedly.

would continue to remain symptom free. After the third round with the stuff,

they tested 's titres and he did titre with Strep A, although he does

not show symptoms. We went ahead and treated him, but we haven't redone the

blood work to see if he's clear yet.

Anyway, when I asked 's dr. about PANDAS (david looks very

" tourette-sy), I basically got the standard response.... " huh? "

I had read about a product called " lauricidin " that claims to show the

ability to " bind " strep--monolaurin is the activie ingredient in lauricidin,

and its also present in coconut milk/oils from what I understand. Its also

very expensive imho, so I haven't tried it yet.

I don't want to inundate with changes all at once. I prefer to take

one at a time and see what it does for us. My entire goal is to " switch " off

an overactive immune response (highly elevated NK cells).

If his next labs show that the strep is still there, I'll have to consider

something else, though. I don't know yet if the strep was a temporary issue

or a more permanent one.

Hope this helps!

Liane