Those of us who find L-glutamine a problem...

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Just thought I would share what someone else posted on the Autism-Mercury

list:

> An answer on the ammonia question - high urinary ornithine occurs in

some

> 50% of children with autism in my experience - ornithine is part of the

uea

> cycle for the removal of ammonia via urea. These children are often

spacey

> and are made worse by glutamine which overloads the urea cycle by

feeding

> into ornithine. I suspect the enzyme at fault is ornithine

> carbamoyl-transferase, within the mitochondria (on the inner membrane)-

> another piece of evidence for mitochondrial dysfunction in these

children.

> Perhaps some arginine might help bypass the problem, but I haven't

> specifically tried this. I tend to use homeopathic ammonia.

, have an older sister with schizophrenia

Blake's mom, 5.10, encephalopathy

's mom, 2.9, skinny, not celiac, but gaining on the diet