DMG/Flaxseed/Yeast

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Any help from all you experienced parents out there would be valuable.

We began DMG and Flaxseed oil recently to aid with communication and

hyperactivity. We began the DMG first, one tablet at a time and got to

three. We noticed an increase in hyperactivity at that point, so we backed

off to two DMG tabs. At that point I was reading Kirkman's labsite about

some products and saw that a side impact of the DMG could be increased

hyperactivity, and that Folic Acid was valuable to offset that because the

DMG breaks it down or something...so we added one tab of Folic Acid and

noticed an improvement back to normal. Went back up to 3 tabs of DMG, and

it was accompanied over about two weeks with an amazing increase in length

and spontaneity of his communications. We are so excited with it! Even his

ECI teacher noticed it and was amazed that it was correlating to the

timeframe we started the DMG. Once we saw the DMG was doing it's thing we

added the Flaxseed oil in at 1 tsp a day or so in his juice. This was

recommended by our dev. ped. through her talking with Pam Compart, a DAN doc

here in MD who said there is some anecdotal signs of it helping with

hyperactivity in kids.

In the same timeframe, unbeknownst to me at the time, his teacher was seeing

a corresponding increase in tantrums and aggressive behavior. The tantrums

seem to have winnowed out over the last week or so with significant

behavioral attention at home and school. But he is still pulling hair and

ears of other kids at school, sometimes unsolicited. His teacher is

wonderful trying to utilize time outs and conversations to explain it to

him, but it's not getting better.

We also just learned that he has a yeast overgrowth problem and we are going

to begin a course preliminarily of probiotics to see if that stems the

problem, rather than use the Nystatin first in case of behavioral impact of

removing the yeast without building up the bacteria he needs to fight the

yeast. I see on the flaxseed oil bottle that it is an antifungal. Could it

have anything to do with this behavior? Is there anything anyone can

recommend we look into? What are the reasons you are all using flaxseed

oil?

Thanks. I'm a bit over my head on this...

Lynn in MD