Starting Biotin, questions, Dana?

January 19, 2009

Hello all. We recently started taking Biotin because I'm sick and

tired of yeast flares. It is time to address this finally. We are good

on the bacteria front, I believe, but yeast keeps rearing its ugly

head and the hyperactivity, silliness, and verbal stimming comes back.

(and my fatigue comes back)

We started at 400 mcg a day and now we are up to 5 mg of biotin a day

and take 400 mg of magnesium glycinate (we plan on working up to 800

if needed). Every time I increase the amount of biotin, it has brought

an increase in yeast behaviors followed by improvements and then

eventually relapse if I didn't then increase again. Is this the normal

pattern? What should I be looking for or expecting? It has not been so

bad so far that I needed to use die-off measures like charcoal or

anything. We do use magnesium/zinc sulfate cream nightly though.

I have read in the past posts that I can go up to 20 mg a day. How

will I know how high to go? How will I know when I reach a good

therapeutic dose?

Once I reach a good therapeutic dose, how long do I stay there and how

will I know?

What is a good maintenance dose after we back down from the

therapeutic dose? Any tips on figuring this out?

Can biotin alone be enough to tackle yeast if the problem isn't

extremely severe? We were thinking of adding in No-Fenol but haven't

yet. Should I just wait and see if the Biotin turns out to be enough?

Would the No-Fenol be helpful even if I don't add something like GSE?

Some background info on my son, he is about 98% recovered from

Asperger's/ADHD as long as we stick to a strict SCD diet with almost

all fruit, fruit juice, and honey removed. I would like to tackle the

yeast issue once and for all so that we can tolerate moderate amounts

of fruit and honey someday.

Thank you in advance for your help! You have been very helpful in the

past and I really appreciate the time you take to help moms like me. :-)

K

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