Posted by KaraS on August 19, 2004, at 15:45:02
In reply to Re: Urticaria and incomplete protein digestion » KaraS, posted by Larry Hoover on August 19, 2004, at 10:18:34
> > Lar,
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> > Thanks so much for sharing your story about GERD and indegestion. I'm definitely going to send this info. to my mother. She's not terribly good at following through on things but it's worth a try anyway.
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> Goody goody good. Maybe if you show her how my other advice turns you into Miss Dynamo, she will be convinced? No, wait, maybe she should take my advice, and you should get all excited.
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> > I had a couple of other questions on what you said:
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> > > I was already taking a B-complex, and zinc and selenium and magnesium. All factor in, so you do need those. The key ingredients that I added were bromelain (1,000 mg a half hour after each meal), trimethylglycine (1,000 mg, twice daily....doesn't matter about the food bit), and B-12 (1,000 mcg once daily, not sure if it matters about food or not). (These are acute treatment amounts. Maintenance doses, once symptoms remit, as required.)
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> > TMG? Not betaine hydrochloride?
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> I'm coming to the conclusion it doesn't matter which one, other than the fact the hydrochloride will chemically burn your esophagus if it isn't taken exactly as directed.
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> > > You may recall I mentioned Helicobacter pylori. If your mother has not been tested for that infection, she ought to be. The test is not very expensive ($80?), is non-invasive, and may indicate a treatable condition (antibiotic therapy) that can exacerbate indigestion/reflux.
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> > I think she was tested for H. pylori. I'll check to be sure.I recently read an interesting post on another board. This person claimed to have been prescribed an antibiotic to fight H. Pylori and it took away all of the nausea she had been feeling for quite a while (for which there had been no diagnosis).
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> I wish I knew my results. I do those antibiotics in a New York minute, but my doc says "no test results, no antibiotics".I don't understand. Why won't your doctor test you for this or are you saying that your test results on this aren't back yet?
> > > > >
> > > > > That said, I'd go with this product:
> > > > > http://www.iherb.com/superenzymes.html
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> > The Ox Bile extract in it shouldn't scare me at all?
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> As in Mad Cow? No.Or any other pathogen?
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> > I was also wondering if taking these enzymes might cause the body to produce less of its own. Is there a chance of that?
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> I haven't seen any evidence of feedback regulation, so it doesn't look like it.
>Good!
> > > > That was very sweet of you to select the brand for me.
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> > > I also selected it for *me*, Kara. Thanks.
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> > Oh, good. Hope it helps both of us!
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> > -K
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> I need reminders. Ask my girlfriend. ;-) Nag me, baybee! That's one reason I love questions.
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> Lar
>I would ask her if I could figure out who she is!
Kara
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