LDN for GI Issues in 5 Year Old

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Laureen

Many autistic children have big gut issues. Subscribe to Autism_LDN and read the FILES section which has a lot of first class information on dealing with gut issues.

Dr McCandless had a transdermal form of LDN developed for children especially and I think she starts kids a one mg at about 11 pm. You can get more info in her group.

Hope this helps. mjh

Posted by: "laureen_forman" lforman@... laureen_forman

Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:45 pm (PST)

Hi -I am considering trying this for my 5 year old son who has had a colonscopy and endoscopy which showed Esophogitis, Gastritis, Duodinitis and LNH in the Small Intestine. A blood test did show a positive marker for Chron's. That scope showed his colon was fine. He did well with 1 course of Flagyl (Dec 2006) and started Pentasa and Zantac in April of last year. Everything was great starting the mew meds.In the past month however, he's pretty much back to baseline GI wise even though he is still on the Pentasa & Zantac. We are currently trying Predinsone and are on the 2nd day and have not noticed any improvement but it's still early. He will only be on this for about 6 weeks.Has anyone had good results for young children for GI issues? If so, what was the best method oral or TD? What was the dose?Interested in any and all feedback.Thanks!!Laureen

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Hi -

I am considering trying this for my 5 year old son who has had a

colonscopy and endoscopy which showed Esophogitis, Gastritis,

Duodinitis and LNH in the Small Intestine. A blood test did show a

positive marker for Chron's. That scope showed his colon was fine.

He did well with 1 course of Flagyl (Dec 2006) and started Pentasa

and Zantac in April of last year. Everything was great starting the

mew meds.

In the past month however, he's pretty much back to baseline GI wise

even though he is still on the Pentasa & Zantac. We are currently

trying Predinsone and are on the 2nd day and have not noticed any

improvement but it's still early. He will only be on this for about

6 weeks.

Has anyone had good results for young children for GI issues? If so,

what was the best method oral or TD? What was the dose?

Interested in any and all feedback.

Thanks!!

Laureen

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Hi Laureen,

Welcome to this group! :-)

the transdermal is best for children,

3 mg is the dose.

Don't start LDN before he has tapered Prednisone down to at least 5 mg. Ingrid (with Crohns disease)

[low dose naltrexone] LDN for GI Issues in 5 Year OldHi -I am considering trying this for my 5 year old son who has had a colonscopy and endoscopy which showed Esophogitis, Gastritis, Duodinitis and LNH in the Small Intestine. A blood test did show a positive marker for Chron's. That scope showed his colon was fine. He did well with 1 course of Flagyl (Dec 2006) and started Pentasa and Zantac in April of last year. Everything was great starting the mew meds.In the past month however, he's pretty much back to baseline GI wise even though he is still on the Pentasa & Zantac. We are currently trying Predinsone and

are on the 2nd day and have not noticed any improvement but it's still early. He will only be on this for about 6 weeks.Has anyone had good results for young children for GI issues? If so, what was the best method oral or TD? What was the dose?Interested in any and all feedback.Thanks!!Laureen

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Hi Ingrid -

Thanks for the information - much appreciated. I was planning to talk

with his Doc about this and will defnitely wait until the Predisone is

done. Laureen

Quoting Gunn Dybfest <gunn.ingrid@...>:

> Hi Laureen,

> Welcome to this group! :-)

> the transdermal is best for children,

> 3 mg is the dose.

> Don't start LDN before he has tapered Prednisone down to at least 5 mg.

> Ingrid (with Crohns disease)

>

>

>

> [low dose naltrexone] LDN for GI Issues in 5 Year Old

>

> Hi -

>

> I am considering trying this for my 5 year old son who has had a

> colonscopy and endoscopy which showed Esophogitis, Gastritis,

> Duodinitis and LNH in the Small Intestine. A blood test did show a

> positive marker for Chron's. That scope showed his colon was fine.

> He did well with 1 course of Flagyl (Dec 2006) and started Pentasa

> and Zantac in April of last year. Everything was great starting the

> mew meds.

>

> In the past month however, he's pretty much back to baseline GI wise

> even though he is still on the Pentasa & Zantac. We are currently

> trying Predinsone and are on the 2nd day and have not noticed any

> improvement but it's still early. He will only be on this for about

> 6 weeks.

>

> Has anyone had good results for young children for GI issues? If so,

> what was the best method oral or TD? What was the dose?

>

> Interested in any and all feedback.

>

> Thanks!!

> Laureen

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hello Laureen,

My 7 year old daughter is currently on LDN for Hepatitis B

(another Gastro disease). You can read our story on Messages #56843

& 58403. We have had dramatic results in LDN helping her liver. We

started off with 1 mg at night (via pill at bedtime) and a couple of

months ago we went up to 1.5 mg a night.

Some on the Autism Group have children on 3 mg a night, but

they don't recommend going over that 3 mg amount in children. You

can always start low (1 mg) and work your way up, depending upon your

results.

Here's a link to the LDN study with Crohn's from the University

of PA, in case you don't have a copy of it:

LDN American Journal of Gastroenterology_2007.pdf

http://f1.grp.fs.com/v1/MFyVR42FgISSCwz11ZbUV6vI3uF6boHQnZs6aNAaS

aOepFAM9VOJgHt8MTxsbu_v10t24BTs57cCV6LudCac1LKi0seB8_SERQ/LDN%

20American%20Journal%20of%20Gastroenterology_2007.pdf

May your child be blessed soon with great health! Cheers ~ Joyce