Re: Re: Biotin: dosing and follow-up questions (somewhat graphic)

May 4, 2010

Hi Dana,

She's been having severe constipation again, and all our doctor has recommended

is either Milk of Magnesia (every day for quite a while) and/or

benefiber/generic equivalent: treating the symptoms but not the cause. Also,

she's " going " every day, but not anything that looks like a normal bowel

movement, and I don't like the fact she's probably " hooked " on the MoM. We

absolutely refused Miralax, as she was on that several years ago and we're still

having oxalate problems thanks (?) to that.

I'm thinking I pull the MoM when we start the biotin (1000 mg) or do I give the

biotin a couple of days to " kick in " ?

Also, the smallest biotin's I've seen in the store (major chain drugstore) are

1000 mg. Do the health food stores have the 200's? (I take it the mg's you list

are biotin, not magnesium, or am I misreading it?)

Thanks.

From: danasview <danasview@...>

Subject: Re: Biotin: dosing and follow-up questions

Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 9:49 AM

> How much magnesium do you give with biotin. I was giving my almost 4 year old

son, 32lbs, 5mg of biotin per day but i didn't realize I should be giving

magnesium along with it. Do you give them at the same time?

If you are not noticing any constipation issues, you can try giving 200mg. If

that causes diarrhea, remove it. If the constipation is not resolved wit 200mg,

try increasing to 400mg.

My son required 1000mg at first, because he was severely biotin deficient. I

was able to reduce the dose as his body started absorbing the biotin.

Dana

------------------------------------

Recommended Posts