Re:How can you tell if it is PICA and what have people done for this

March 13, 2008

Hi Una,

We had pica, boy did we have pica! And paper products were also my daughters

favorite, although cloth (especially the strings she could pull with her

teeth...) was a big favorite too. What solved it for us was a full spectrum

mineral supplement. Within hours we could see a difference, within days it was

just gone. We use Nutri-West's Trace Min Plus. We got our dosage based on muscle

testing at our chiropractors. Another upside is that this seems to have helped

her oral stims too. And finally, this supplement provides the magnesium and B-6

she needs for her DMG supplement.

I tried mineral supplements for this based on the advice of a number of other

parents with spectrum kids.

Hope this helps.

March 16, 2008

Hi, Thanks for sharing the info. My younger one (4) used to chew

clothes and had teeth grinding. We are trying Mega-minerals from Brain

Child and a liquid Cal-Mag-Zn supplement (given away from the

mega-minerals) and it has helped a lot.

Warm regards,

Anjana parker

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> Hi Una,

> We had pica, boy did we have pica! And paper products were also my

daughters favorite, although cloth (especially the strings she could

pull with her teeth...) was a big favorite too. What solved it for us

was a full spectrum mineral supplement. Within hours we could see a

difference, within days it was just gone. We use Nutri-West's Trace

Min Plus. We got our dosage based on muscle testing at our

chiropractors. Another upside is that this seems to have helped her

oral stims too. And finally, this supplement provides the magnesium

and B-6 she needs for her DMG supplement.

>

> I tried mineral supplements for this based on the advice of a number

of other parents with spectrum kids.

>

> Hope this helps.

>

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