Some helpful/interesting links

[LNN]

Came across some interesting things today and thought I'd pass them along...

 

First, in the health food store, the clerk told me about an alternative for ibuprofen called IbuActin from Solaray. It's quite pricey - about $20 - but supposedly as effective as motrin. One online reviewer on Amazon said they had to take two pills per dose instead of one to feel relief, but liked the product. Supposedly it avoids the liver side effects of ibuprofen, but I haven't researched the individual ingredients.

 

Second, the clerk told me about Curamin (curamin.com). She said she was skeptical but a company spokesman told her he'd take back any product of someone came back saying it didn't work and so far, no one has wanted to return it. Said it was great for pain relief due to inflammation. So FWIW...

 

Third, in trying to help DH find options for helping him sleep, I came across a statement that said taking hypertension medications can block your bodies release of melatonin, resulting in sleep problems. I'd never heard that before - but found the same comment on wiki (not that being on wiki makes something "true"). So for any parent who's losing sleep - maybe it's blood pressure meds and not just your child's illness that's behind it.

 

Finally, more for my geeky friends, here are two sites I found about the brain. Haven't poked around too much, but did find a nice overview of the various regions of the brain and some other interesting reading.http://gnif.org/content/view/21/40/ and http://brainblogger.com/

[kimballot]

Thanks,LLM - I took a quick look at the brain link and I think it looks really good - but I did notice that they classify dopamine as an inhibitory neurotransmitter. I believe dopamine can be either excitatory or inhibitory - depending on the neuron location - and I did not want folks to get confused (ex: why does my son have tics if dopamine is inhibitory and he has too much dopamine). Here is another link on that http://www.neurogistics.com/TheScience/WhatareNeurotransmi09CE.asp

[smartyjones]

First, in the health food store, the clerk told me about an alternative for ibuprofen called IbuActin from Solaray. It's quite pricey - about $20 - but supposedly as effective as motrin. One online reviewer on Amazon said they had to take two pills per dose instead of one to feel relief, but liked the product. Supposedly it avoids the liver side effects of ibuprofen, but I haven't researched the individual ingredients.

 

 

i'm happy you have found some things you may find helpful. just to mention. . . i quickly looked up the ibouactin b/c i thought it would likely contain white willow bark -- it does -- which is an ingredient i believe is what aspirin is "based on" --( using terms loosely on a sunday morning) and may have some silimar properties. admittedly, i haven't done the due diligence but i avoid white willow for my son, (also, i avoid herbs for ds but we use homeopathy) -- you may want to check that carefully when deciding to give that to a child.

[LNN]

i quickly looked up the ibouactin b/c i thought it would likely contain white willow bark -- it does -- which is an ingredient i believe is what aspirin is "based on" --( using terms loosely on a sunday morning) and may have some silimar properties. admittedly, i haven't done the due diligence but i avoid white willow for my son, (also, i avoid herbs for ds but we use homeopathy) -- you may want to check that carefully when deciding to give that to a child.

Thanks, Smarty. That's why I like posting stuff like this - helps with due diligence. The price was enough to give me pause. But was also planning to research the ingredients.

 

It's a frustrating quest trying to find an anti-inflammatory. Many options are for adults only (and are off-label - some things like cox-inhibitors may be ok for an adult to take even without hypertension, but for a kid, totally different set of considerations). Other things like tumeric or omegas don't seem to touch symptoms the way ibuprofen does. So I keep resorting to motrin or aleve due to lack of other options.

 

Kimballot - agree on the brain discussion. Upon a re-read this morning over coffee, it didn't live up to its promise.

 

But for any budding authors out there, the brainblogger site is actively recruiting authors - the work needs to be supported by citations of peer-reviewed literature and you don't get paid. But for anyone looking to either spread the word or build up a portfolio, it might offer an avenue to get published. (Emerson...emmalily...some of my email pals...hint hint)

[lfran]

turmeric/curcurmin is suppossed to be an anti-inflammatory that crosses the blood-brain-barrier. You can buy it in health food store.

 

Also green tea extract. Both are mentioned in Dr. Burrascano's Lyme Disease Protocols as helpful supplements.

i quickly looked up the ibouactin b/c i thought it would likely contain white willow bark -- it does -- which is an ingredient i believe is what aspirin is "based on" --( using terms loosely on a sunday morning) and may have some silimar properties. admittedly, i haven't done the due diligence but i avoid white willow for my son, (also, i avoid herbs for ds but we use homeopathy) -- you may want to check that carefully when deciding to give that to a child.

Thanks, Smarty. That's why I like posting stuff like this - helps with due diligence. The price was enough to give me pause. But was also planning to research the ingredients.

 

It's a frustrating quest trying to find an anti-inflammatory. Many options are for adults only (and are off-label - some things like cox-inhibitors may be ok for an adult to take even without hypertension, but for a kid, totally different set of considerations). Other things like tumeric or omegas don't seem to touch symptoms the way ibuprofen does. So I keep resorting to motrin or aleve due to lack of other options.

 

Kimballot - agree on the brain discussion. Upon a re-read this morning over coffee, it didn't live up to its promise.

 

But for any budding authors out there, the brainblogger site is actively recruiting authors - the work needs to be supported by citations of peer-reviewed literature and you don't get paid. But for anyone looking to either spread the word or build up a portfolio, it might offer an avenue to get published. (Emerson...emmalily...some of my email pals...hint hint)

[smartyjones]

It's a frustrating quest trying to find an anti-inflammatory. Many options are for adults only (and are off-label - some things like cox-inhibitors may be ok for an adult to take even without hypertension, but for a kid, totally different set of considerations). . So I keep resorting to motrin or aleve due to lack of other options.

 

 

 

yes - we could not find an alternative and it is very frustrating. luckily, we were only using motrin occasionally. ds was/is on homeopathy and when i asked dr about other options that could be fast-acting as a sub for motrin, he didn't really have suggestions, other than being patient on long-term action of what we were using.

 

 

i wonder if boswellia could be helpful. my mom used to take that for back pain.