Re: Anyone's Child had Extremely High Arabinose Levels on Organic Acid

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That is so interesting about the aerobic vs. anaerobic issue with the

tests. So, it could still be yeast. I guess the only way to know

would be to try an antifungal and see what happens. I should start a

protocol on that anyway as I suspect we have viral issues and

bacterial issues that we need to treat.

My ASDish son (the one with the 210 arabinose) was also very high in

hippuric acid (sp?). We live in a 1940s home without carpeting

(although we put high-quality wool carpeting in the boys' room,

hmm..). Just before we did the test we became convinced that he was

reacting to carpeting- he starts running repetitive circuits in this

ritualistic way and tunes everyone out in a carpeted room- I can't

take him to the library or community center or hardly anywhere public.

He then has a huge screaming fir when we leave the place. It was

very validating to read about toluene in the results section. We are

realizing that Dh and I, and our older NT son, also react to carpeting.

Then I realized an infuriating thing- we used to take ds to a clinic

for OT, which cost us lots of money and time (I don't drive, so dh

took half a day off of work every other week to take us). Avery

(ASDish ds) would act so strange there, and they would say " see, he

has these sensory issues " and I'm thinking that he isn't usually like

that, and they're saying because I pick up his slack at home or

something like that. It was a new building with industrial carpeting

and he was behaving there exactly like he still does when exposed to

it. They were trying to treat a chemical sensitivity with OT!! They

basically made him sick then tried to treat him. And to think that

after his evaluation at this clinic (general evaluation), I was warned

not to waste my time and money on unproven therapies when they wasted

the most time and money. Okay, I feel better- I just had to vent to

people who would understand!!

-Sierra

>

> My sons, nt 5 yr old with food allergies, arabinose was 246. What I

found

> interesting that his worse, IMO was his adipic. Reference range is

0-12, he

> was 642. The interpretation said may be due to fatty acid oxidation

> disorders and recommended L-carnitine 500-1000 mg per day. Which I

need to

> work in yet. He also showed elevated hippuric acid, which states from

> gastrointestinal bacteria. So I've been doing biocidin from Brainchild

> hopefully hitting the yeast/bacteria issues. It also stated toluene

may be

> absorbed from outgassing of new carpets and other building

materials, which

> we just built a new house and moved in last September, previous

house was

> new also when he was 18 months. This one we built, cleaned and

cleaned, cut

> down on carpet, infloor heat, air exchanger etc. Todays new houses

are so

> tight, toxins there are a concern.

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> The house we moved into when he was 18 months, we had a terrible first

> winter here in Wisconsin. That house was so poorly constructed,

cleaned,

> god only knows what it looked like under the carpeting. They didn't

clean

> up when doing anything, under the hot tub, the duct work, the dishwasher

> area and " inside " down in the cabinets, just very poor cleaning

practices.

> This one we built, so not the case and we've had our best healthy

year yet.

> I'm so glad those trips in do the doctors office are gone!!!

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> Tammy