Re: Gaba dosage for 12 year old

[Guest guest]

Hi Marie

We have often given our 7 yr old quite thin son a 500mg cap of GABA.

Kenny

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> Hi

> I've recently purchase Puritan Pride Gaba each capsule contains 100mg Gaba,

600 mg insositol & 200mg niacin. How much of a dosage should I give my 12 year

old son. He's 69Kg and has been very anxious lately, so much so we've had to

keep him home from school a lot lately.

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> Thanks

> Marie

> mum to 12 year old twin boys and 10 year old girl all ASD

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[Guest guest]

Marie,

I wouldn't give this supplement to a child until you research the niacin dosage.

Is the content niacin or niacinamide? They are different and niacin can be toxic

if taken at too high a dose. The 200 mg of niacin sounds like too much to me for

a child, but you should search the archives here for Andy's opinion, which I

don't remember off hand.

The dosing of both inositol and GABA in your supplements is OK, though maybe too

low to be effective for the inositol. My DD takes 2-3 grams of inositol in one

shot in the morning and it helps her mood -- not necessarily anxiety, but

helping one emotion helps others I find. She has also taken GABA, which can help

some with anxiety, but often it needs to be taken a few times/day to be

effective. It didn't help my DD much but it doesn't mean that it won't help

yours, you would need to try it.

I don't think that you can experiment much (or maybe not at all?) with this

supplement will help much since the niacin dose may be too high & prevents you

from adjusting the dose of the other ingredients.

HTH,

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> Hi

> I've recently purchase Puritan Pride Gaba each capsule contains 100mg Gaba,

600 mg insositol & 200mg niacin. How much of a dosage should I give my 12 year

old son. He's 69Kg and has been very anxious lately, so much so we've had to

keep him home from school a lot lately.

>

> Thanks

> Marie

> mum to 12 year old twin boys and 10 year old girl all ASD

>

[Guest guest]

Marie,

If you can buy GABA w/o added ingredients.Try GABA by Natural Factors & others.

Then you can slowly give more.

I don't think it's a good idea to give bigger doses of inosotil & niacin.

KathyB

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> Hi

> I've recently purchase Puritan Pride Gaba each capsule contains 100mg Gaba,

600 mg insositol & 200mg niacin. How much of a dosage should I give my 12 year

old son. He's 69Kg and has been very anxious lately, so much so we've had to

keep him home from school a lot lately.

>

> Thanks

> Marie

> mum to 12 year old twin boys and 10 year old girl all ASD

>