Magnesium+Vitamin C=Diarrhea?

[Giselle]

Hi everyone! I was wondering what you guys do to combat the diarrhea that usually accompanies the extra magnesium and vitamin C? It seems like whenever we get the mag and vit C at the perfect levels to help his tics he gets diarrhea! Mind you I call him my little fruit bat because he adores fruit and eats lot of it (as well as lots of veggies) so normally he never has a problem "going" anyway so when you add the mag and vit C things get really moving! I realize just backing off the amounts will help but it seems like at these levels his tics almost completely stop. We feed him rice at every opportunity which helps. Any other suggestions? Oh, just so you know he's taking Allergy Research Group's Buffered Vitamin C Powder with calcium, magnesium and potassium as ascorbate chelates in solution. The serving size is 1 teaspoon and he gets 1 and 1/2 per day (as recommended by his environmental doc) Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid) 2135 mg - 3558% Daily Value, Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate) 405mg - 41%, Magnesium (as magnesium carbonate) 215 mg - 54%, Potassium (as potassium carbonate) 90mg - 3%. We just started this stuff on Tuesday so he hasn't had the trots long but I don't want him depleted! This also happened when he took Bonnie's vits. I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July!

Giselle

[Andy]

Hi, Giselle

 

"More commonly (and usually at doses over 2000mg/day) gastrointestinal distress and diarrhea are the only side effects from vitamin C. Using the buffered preparation or vitamin C esters can significantly reduce the incidence of gastrointestinal side effects as willl dividing the dose" page 18 of Treatment Options for Mercury/Metal Toxicity in Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities:Consensus Position Paper. February 2005 -can be accessed from www.AutismResearchinstitue.com

 

You might want to refer to the above paper for they have more information on dose levels and research that you might be interested in.