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Originally Posted by whoMe  Who has the coppery hair?
"Hair levels of copper are not very helpful in detecting increased body copper because of external contamination. If contamination is ruled out, hair copper is suggestive of body state."
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Me, pick me!
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Originally Posted by neveryoumindthere So, I got the D-mannose powder. I'm doing 1 tsp every couple hrs, plus the VitC, dandelion root tea, cranberry extract (1000+ mg) and probiotics 3x a day
Within a couple hours pink pee is virtually gone
tomorrow morning i'll re-evaluate
I will keep u posted. Thanks so much for your concern Kathy (and everyone else)
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I hope you do better than I did
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| oh and is there some mysterious biochemical reason for me hating to drink water, that I'm missing? |
I can only drink ice water. And I'm really picky about "taste" of water. It has to taste like nothing. If it's mineraly at all, I don't like it.
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Originally Posted by neveryoumindthere nak
Pat (or anyone else),
I'm trying my best to be positive, but am looking for info, in case. The dr's office wouldn't tell me what type of bacteria was in the urine culture. I know 90% of the time it is e.coli, but when I was pg with ds i had gbs in my urine and went on abx (dont even remember which one)
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Why wouldn't they tell you the bacteria? That's ridiculous. Ask for the report and go pick it up. You can get a copy of any of your records. It should tell you what the bacteria is and what antibiotics are resistant for it, and which antibiotics work for it. Generally, they can give you any of the ones that it works for. I had one UTI, once upon a time, where Macrobid was the ONLY abx that it wasn't resistant to, and even though I had had a rash from it, they put me on it (and I didn't get a rash that time).
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Originally Posted by momofmine Kathy, did you ever try the Thorne Uristatin in addition to the D-mannose?? The ND I saw said that the D-mannose will be most effective for e coli, and that the Uristatin will work for the others (it has uva ursi and some other things in it).
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I didn't. I couldn't find the Uristatin, only the D-mannose. I have e. coli about 80% of the time. The other times are citrobacter and something else I can't remember.
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Originally Posted by New Mama So my son has had bad dreams the past few nights, which he used to get more often. After we took dairy and eggs out of his diet February 1st (he was already GF) he had started to sleep better, but now this. So far it's been: cobwebs in our bed, the ceiling cracking apart and ants doing something. He wakes up yelling and thrashing and kicking usually.
Do you think this is something he's eating or a toxic overload? I always tend to think these things MEAN something, though I *suppose* it could be a normal developmental thing, but I'm not sure I believe that.
One bigger change is that we started eating gluten-free oats. He reacts to gluten per EnteroLab (and reactions/celiac run on both sides of our family). I know I've read that some celiacs can't do oats...is this true even for the GF oats?
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I'm with you. I think it means something. My two kids who can't do gluten also can't do oats. My friend down the street who is celiac, and her two kids are gluten-intolerant -- none of them can do oats. Have you tried hot buckwheat cereal (Bob's Red Mill has a good one)? It's very similar. DD2 likes Cream of Rice too.
Of course the only way to tell is to pull it back out and see....
Anybody know how long it takes for an antibiotic reaction goes away? I am soooooo itchy.
). I won't say what we ate since none of it would be nearly regarded as "safe" but we had a really nice time, nonetheless. He took me, earlier, to a little, local kitchen store to look for a frying pan, also. We decided to put off getting anything for the kitchen for now (read: he didn't want to pay for the frying pan I wanted 
) until the kitchen gets redone... which he says is next on our house to-do list. So I'll suffer with my little stupid frying pan for now, I guess, because if I give in and get a new one which isn't the one I want, I'll be stuck with it and I *know* it.
because whoMe or someone referred to it in a post somewhere and I looked it up and found a slightly older edition for about $4 and a few dollars more shipping! I love me a textbook bargain! Maybe it's just late, but I am laughing out loud at myself right now because I am so excited about my bedtime reading...a giant textbook! I am doubly excited because I've only read the introduction so far and they're already talking about MTHFR and other such exciting things.
It's really interesting, and makes me wonder how any doctor can say there's no connection with the gut or what we eat to behavior.
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