I am worrying about the length of time they are going without their nutraceuticals, more for Grayson than Gavin, because of school tomorrow. I will have to keep him home from school to do this for two reasons. One is that they give him a dose of his nutraceuticals during school, following a doctor's note. And the other reason is because I don't want to set him up for failure, if things come to a head during the day. So far both are doing surprisingly well, but we have experienced the calm before the storm in the past when my husband didn't give them any of their nutraceuticals all weekend while I was away, to see how they would do. They were great all weekend, things came to a head days later and it was an absolutely horrible time that I would rather not repeat. It took much longer than a few days to get them back to where they were. It caused us to have to skip rounds of chelation and my life was incredibly difficult having two going through it at the same time.
One thing I can be sure of is that they will have their nutraceuticals out of their systems for sure. Mommy might not fair so well over the next couple of days or weeks though. Wish us luck....
Monday morning update - I had to keep Grayson home from school. I was hoping they would both go by now so I could get them back on their nutraceuticals and glyconutrients (I stopped those too, since they can effect microbiology). STILL no BMs in this house, ugh! I can't believe this, they have both always been SO regular, I could practically set a clock by them and now, the ONE time I need them to go, they don't, neither of them. I am praying that yeast overgrowth isn't causing some sort of constipation. That would be quite the double-edged sword! This morning we have a lot of hyperactivity, aggravation, impatience, and outbursts. Grayson is doing a little better than Gavin. Gavin is back to yelling about everything, he can't communicate without screaming and explosive outbursts.
**OH, as I am writing this, Grayson has to go, YEAY!! Off to collect a sample, woooo hooo!
Monday evening update - I was finally able to collect a sample from Gavin at about 1:30 today, thank goodness, because all of his old symptoms were back full force: the yelling, explosive outbursts, defiance, crying a lot, red anal ring, and he even had dark circles under his eyes. Then tonight after a shower, I noticed that the wet dog smell that had been gone, came back slightly. I am convinced now that this was related to pathogen overgrowth.
I decided to give both boys just half of their usual nutraceutical dose instead of bombarding their body with too much die-off at once. This proved to be a good idea, because now at 6:30 pm, they are both doing GREAT! I feel like Grayson didn't even skip a beat with this whole thing, which proves that chelation is really helping him. Gavin is also back to a fairly level mood again too. I reintroduced their glyconutrients today too and with that comes the happy faces. For Gavin, the glyconutrients has reinstated lots of thorough speaking. His speech has most definitely been effected by the glyconutrients! If this break has proven anything to me, it's that one thing!
Another thing I was able to decipher from this is that the rash Gavin got after starting the glyconutrients is not an intolerance/allergic reaction, because while he was off of them, it didn't change at all. It had already been slowly drying up before stopping the glyconutrients and it is still in that same condition even after two days without them. In the past, removing the source of his eczema made almost immediate changes in the rashes, within 24 hours at minimum. I am convinced that the glyconutrients triggered a detox of some sort, whether it be viral, bacterial, yeast related, or even heavy metal or some other toxin.
So hopefully we are back to "normal" and in a few weeks we will know what was going on for both of them this weekend when the tests results are in. I can't wait!!!
Just a few little tidbits on yeast and mercury in honor of stool testing
For those of us going through chelation, we know all too well that yeast is a common complication of mercury. Our daily attempts to maintain yeast levels is just a management process in place until we can bring mercury levels down with chelation. It isn't the fix. For those who are treating yeast regularly and not doing chelation, it's just a bandaid.
These little snippits of information are from Andy Cutlers's book "Amalgam Illness"
- Intestinal overgrowth of yeast is common and often goes along with mercury poisoning.
- Intestinal yeast overgrowth can crowd out the bacteria that produce vitamin K, which is essential for blood clotting.
- Excessive yeast can also interfere with vitamin D metabolism in the liver and kidneys, affecting calcium metabolism.
- One very direct test for yeast infection is to administer Nystatin, which kills yeast and see if you react to it (I would recommend GSE which is a natural yeast killer). If yeast is causing a problem, killing it will exacerbate this problem. Whatever symptoms flare up when enough yeast are killed are due to the yeast. If no symptom flareup occurs, then intestinal yeast is present at an appropriate level.
- A low sulfur diet may suppress yeast, a high sulfur diet will feed it as well as one high in sugars and carbohydrates.
- Coffee is a sulfur food, tea has yeast killing tannin. If you have a yeast problem, take your liquid stimulant in the form of strong black tea instead of coffee.
- Repeated reappearance of skin dryness, hyperkeratosis or other irritation over areas where mercury containing antiseptics have been applied in the previous few years is not uncommon and should not be confused with yeast or fungal reinfection.
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