Suggestions for Multi-Vitamin

[RTO1214]

Can anyone recommend a good multivitamin. My son has been taking Bonnie G's Vitamins (TS Plus control) for 2 years. It seems to help in controling his tics etc. but he now weighs 84 pounds and just cannot stomach the 15 vitamins plus extra Mag/Taurate, EPA/DHA, L-Carnitine and anything else he may need. (20+ pills a day)

 

Somedays I feel like all I do is give him vitamins.

 

I have started him on a probiotic and enzymes along with the Threelac powder for yeast and last night my son just started to cry about the amout of vitamins I give him.

 

He had to go to the nurse yesterday at school for an upset stomach and told the nurse his Mom gave him too many vitamins!!

 

I have searchedthe Web for a good supplement but cannot find one without cooper.

 

I have promised my son that I will try and cut back on the number of pills he takes everyday. Has anyone tried the liquid vitamins?

 

Heather if you read this did your son have loose stools with the Threelac.

MY son is having a time with this and does not want to take it anymore. Is this the yeast etc coming out? Thanks Robin.

[Chemar]

Hi Robin

I do sympathise as this is probably the biggest negative with the supps.....if only somone could make a single "miracle pill"

 

anyway

the liquid multis are the most effective way to take supps, but I havent yet found one that has a high enough concentration of the supps needed.

 

we use the Metagenics brand multi....Multigenics..but it does contain copper, which my son tolerates well according to his rodiogenics analysis. We use the one without iron as he doesnt tolerate extra iron well digestively http://www.metagenics.com

 

Life Extension products are excellent, tho pricey, and they do make very good multis witout copper

 

here is the link

http://www.lef.org/prod_hp/php-lem.html?so...=HomeTop12LEMix

[Claire]

Hi Robin,

 

I went through this same issue and search.

 

Kirkmann's has a liquid--Super Nu Thera. We don't take it though--it overlaps with others.

 

http://www.kirkmanlabs.com/

 

I switched my son's cal/mag to a chewable--those were the 4 biggest horse pills and it made a big difference in tolerability (I still give him one mag taurate based on board feedback). Country Life Chewable Cal-Snack. Each wafe has 500 mg calcium carbonate/citrate, and 250 mg magnesium oxide/aspartate, 50 ui Vitamin D. All natural according to my health food store.

 

I hope you give these with food--they can cause stomach aches. This is one reason it is nice to have a doctor--you don't feel like defending yourself to the nurse or friends or whatever, I can say "our doctor says...." !

 

If you do Houston Nutriceutical enzymes, they only required 1 enzyme a meal, vs Klaire which required two. I don't know about Kirkman, but Houston's were smaller for some reason--for the same impact.

 

I tend to drop something when I add something so I never go over a certain psychological amount.

 

Claire

[RTO1214]

Chemar,Claire, Thanks so much for the sites and Information. I will take at look at these. Robin.