Fine Motor supplement suggestions

[Guest guest]

Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped in

other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in the

brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

Thanks in advance,

Deb

Round 44 dmsa/ala 6mg

[Guest guest]

> Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped in

other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in the

brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

At my house, carnitine, B12, and creatine.

Dana

[Guest guest]

What does creatine do? When you gave B12, did you also give all of the other B

vitamins or mb12? Or a b complex?

 

Thanks,

Drissia

From: danasview <danasview@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Fine Motor supplement suggestions

Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 9:38 AM

 

> Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped in

other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in the

brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

At my house, carnitine, B12, and creatine.

Dana

[Guest guest]

You've probably found some PT people to work on this, but we also do our own

routine. After meals, we " play " with multiple textures--I rub them on his hands,

let him feel them, show him how to pass hand to hand, and so on. At first, they

are touch " defensive " as our private PT calls it, but if you persist and do it

at least 3x a day (the IAHP suggests something like 5 or 7 times a day, but

we're seeing fine results with just doing this after meals). I used the book How

Smart is Your Child and the other one What to Do With Your Brain Injured Child,

but I love all the books from that author, even tho I didn't take my son to the

institute. Alongside the supps, it's important to repattern the brain/pattern

the brain for first time--and that has to happen frequently and repeatedly.

You're just upping the reps a child would normally be exposed to in normal

development (you're trying to catch up)--by doing it more times a day, you're

building neural pathways faster. I use a bunch of different textures and

temperatures--stuff from freezer, feathers, sandpaper, loofah, brush, bags of

beans, tub of rice (can get messy!), a battery operated toothbrush (for

stimulation of hands any which way--brush on palm, handle on palm, stalk on

palm, passing hand to hand, brushing one palm while holding with other hand). We

do it as " play " --first week or so DS was touch defensive and resistant (wasn't

much like play, but I invented a song to go with it). But after a week or so, he

started looking over his shoulder to see the " toys " . He's really made much

faster progress with us doing this for such a short time. He can now touch the

little characters on the iphone toddler games, and mostly he can make them

" jump " or hit the right " button " . Before, he'd pull his hands away when we tried

to show him how.

We did creatine too, and I think the enzymes really made a big difference, as

well as a Brain formula that contained Ginkgo and other herbs, but in addition

to our work on patterning in all areas from a young age. The books teach you

about the whys and hows of neural patterning. It's all stuff you can do at home.

We don't use the state PT because the official policy of Birth to Three (as we

discovered by experience) is not to help a kid " catch up " with " normal " kids,

but to develop at their own pace (ie delayed). We'd just end up trying to

convince her that he really was turning the pages of his books and really was

signalling to go potty. My son would repeatedly fall asleep whenever she came

(he's usually super sociable and interactive).

It's always best if parents do it and integrate it into the daily routine (as

fun, but that's just my opinion--I think the IAHP takes it all a little more

rigidly, but that's just rumor I've heard; I have nothing bad to say about the

books). It's all about getting creative once you've learned the principles, and

addressing all areas you see as issues, even if they don't seem related. To get

those fine motor skills, the patterning that has been missed has to be

introduced and practiced--otherwise, the kid just doesn't get the

exposure/experience with it. The best advice I got from another mom in my

situation (with a grown son now) was to teach him everything hand-over-hand

repeatedly and not to follow the Birth to Three principle that the kid just " had

to " end up delayed and under-abled.

best wishes,

Fiona

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> Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped in

other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in the

brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

>

> Thanks in advance,

> Deb

>

> Round 44 dmsa/ala 6mg

>

[Guest guest]

> What does creatine do?

Helped my daughter have more legible handwriting.

>>When you gave B12, did you also give all of the other B vitamins or mb12? Or a

b complex?

I gave B50 [a B complex], extra folic acid, carnitine, and mB12.

Dana

[Guest guest]

Fiona,

Any test to identify Creatine deficiency?

Or its safe to try a lowest possible dose.

What's the dosage you gave your child, what was the weight?

Thanks much,

Sasmita

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> > Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped

in other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in

the brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

> >

> > Thanks in advance,

> > Deb

> >

> > Round 44 dmsa/ala 6mg

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Dana, Acetyl L-Carnitine or L-Carnitine?

Thanks,Deb

> > Our daughter almost five has Huge fine motor delays. Chelation has helped

in other areas but not yet this at all. I know this is probably the mercury in

the brain and will have to just keep chelating for a long time to get it out.

However in the mean time, has anyone found any supplements that really helps

with fine motor and motor planning/orginization?

>

>

> At my house, carnitine, B12, and creatine.

>

> Dana

>

[Guest guest]

> Dana, Acetyl L-Carnitine or L-Carnitine?

My son did best with l-carnitine, but you should probably try both to see which

one works best for your child.

Dana