Re: Michele: Excessive and obssesive hand licking!!

[Guest guest]

>

> Michele,

>

> I meant to respond to this earlier. Thank you for sharing your

experience with this hand licking. I agree with you. The more I try

to tell my boys to quit licking their hands, the more frustrated I got

and the more anxious they got. So, I realize, it is just best to

ignore it for now. My two are nonverbal. So, they can't tell me why

they do it.

>

> Dana

> and Garrett, just turned 4, SCD 2 years

> Celiac, ASD, Speech and Motor Apraxia, sensory processing disorder

>

My son is verbal but has trouble communicating at times. For example,

I was frustrated with him earlier tonight because I was watching him

play a video game and asking questions about it and he never could

directly answer my questions. He would launch into this long,

convoluted explanation about the entire magic system of the game

instead of telling me what spell he had just cast when that was all I

wanted to know. He didn't even see he wasn't answering my questions.

He can be interesting to have discussions with but trying to

communicate about stuff can still be frustrating at times. It was far

worse when he was little.

Anyway, my sister's daughter began doing the same thing (hand-licking)

around the same age my son did this. I told her our story and she

began giving her daughter lotion for her hands. I never heard about

it again, so I assume it never turned into a big issue at her house

like it did at mine. For us, I never offered lotion but did offer

mittens when that was appropriate or reminded him that stuffing his

hands in his pockets would protect them but licking would make it

worse. (In your case, ignoring it for now may be best. But there may

also come a time when offering possible solutions might be useful as

well. :-) )

FWIW: My oldest has had lots of good things to say about how I was

able to reach him in part because I was the ONLY person in his life

who didn't treat his problem behaviors in an accusatory, blaming kind

of fashion and approached it all with a sense of curiosity about what

made him tick and how to help him better cope.

Good luck.

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.org

http://www.kidslikemine.org

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for sharing this!

Dana

and Garrett, just turned 4, SCD 2 years

Celiac, ASD, Speech and Motor Apraxia, sensory processing disorder

From: Michele <talithamichele@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Michele: Excessive and obssesive hand licking!!

Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:14 AM

>

> Michele,

>

> I meant to respond to this earlier. Thank you for sharing your

experience with this hand licking. I agree with you. The more I try

to tell my boys to quit licking their hands, the more frustrated I got

and the more anxious they got. So, I realize, it is just best to

ignore it for now. My two are nonverbal. So, they can't tell me why

they do it.

>

> Dana

> and Garrett, just turned 4, SCD 2 years

> Celiac, ASD, Speech and Motor Apraxia, sensory processing disorder

>

My son is verbal but has trouble communicating at times. For example,

I was frustrated with him earlier tonight because I was watching him

play a video game and asking questions about it and he never could

directly answer my questions. He would launch into this long,

convoluted explanation about the entire magic system of the game

instead of telling me what spell he had just cast when that was all I

wanted to know. He didn't even see he wasn't answering my questions.

He can be interesting to have discussions with but trying to

communicate about stuff can still be frustrating at times. It was far

worse when he was little.

Anyway, my sister's daughter began doing the same thing (hand-licking)

around the same age my son did this. I told her our story and she

began giving her daughter lotion for her hands. I never heard about

it again, so I assume it never turned into a big issue at her house

like it did at mine. For us, I never offered lotion but did offer

mittens when that was appropriate or reminded him that stuffing his

hands in his pockets would protect them but licking would make it

worse. (In your case, ignoring it for now may be best. But there may

also come a time when offering possible solutions might be useful as

well. :-) )

FWIW: My oldest has had lots of good things to say about how I was

able to reach him in part because I was the ONLY person in his life

who didn't treat his problem behaviors in an accusatory, blaming kind

of fashion and approached it all with a sense of curiosity about what

made him tick and how to help him better cope.

Good luck.

Michele

http://www.healthga zelle.org

http://www.kidslike mine.org

[Guest guest]

> I have been wondering since I made my last post if there might be

> something causing your sons hands to be abnormally dry and if maybe

> other list members had ideas about a) a biomedical cause of dryness

> (i.e. is this a side effect of certain germs dying off? is this a

> normal side effect of certain supplements? is this caused by

> certain deficiencies?) and a biomedical treatment for dry skin

> (like taking certain supplements).

At my house, dry skin was eliminated with folic acid. Are you giving

mB12 or TMG? If so, increase the folic. Those two supps need folic

for proper absorption.

Dana

[Guest guest]

> > I have been wondering since I made my last post if there might

be

> > something causing your sons hands to be abnormally dry and if

maybe

> > other list members had ideas about a) a biomedical cause of

dryness

> > (i.e. is this a side effect of certain germs dying off? is this

a

> > normal side effect of certain supplements? is this caused by

> > certain deficiencies?) and a biomedical treatment for dry

skin

> > (like taking certain supplements).

>

>

> At my house, dry skin was eliminated with folic acid. Are you

giving

> mB12 or TMG? If so, increase the folic. Those two supps need folic

> for proper absorption.

>

> Dana

>

Thanks. Wasn't really my issue, but I am planning on adding folic

acid back in. I think I need more B-vitamins than I am getting.

I also meant to comment on your thoughts on warts (but my weekend

was lost to what appears to be strep die off). We didn't use

lysine, so I think there are other things that must work as well,

but my son did go through a period where his warts got much, much

worse before they got better. Your remarks about how the virus

effects the body as it comes out were useful to me. I have had lots

of die-off rashes but never thought of his wart flare-up as a kind

of die-off reaction.

Anyway, gotta go (or I am sure I would have more to say).

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.org

http://www.kidslikemine.org