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MS prevention for children
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| Valentina 2005-12-25, 12:53 pm |
| This summer I had a baby and I have MS.
Do you know any prevention against MS for children?
I have read that calcium and vitamin D (from sun) may help. Are there any
other methods to avoid that our children inherit the disease?
Thank you,
Valentina (form Florence, Italy)
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| Jim Carter 2005-12-25, 5:55 pm |
| Florence is beautiful city, I was there in 1971. Northern part of
Italy at about 40ºN latitude? _Three Coins in The Fountain_ was
filmed there?
I know of nothing more you can do. If your child avoids sunlight then
4000-5000 International Units of Vitamin D with calcium are the
currently recommended doses to help prevent autoimmune diseases. Make
certain that you also get lots of sunlight.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:58:11 +0100, "Valentina"
<valentina@TOGLIQUESTOduestrade.it> wrote:
>This summer I had a baby and I have MS.
>Do you know any prevention against MS for children?
>I have read that calcium and vitamin D (from sun) may help. Are there any
>other methods to avoid that our children inherit the disease?
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>Thank you,
>Valentina (form Florence, Italy)
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| Jim Carter 2005-12-25, 5:55 pm |
| On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:58:11 +0100, "Valentina"
<valentina@TOGLIQUESTOduestrade.it> wrote:
>I have read that calcium and vitamin D (from sun) may help. Are there any
>other methods to avoid that our children inherit the disease?
Let me be clear on this: 4000-5000 IU is dosage for an adult, not a
child. The following was posted by John Fletcher, who used to be a
frequent contributor here. Contrary to what I said, there are other
supplements and foods that might help but I do not know the doses for
children.
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It is generally accepted that an intake of 400IU of vitamin D is the
standard recommended daily
allowance for infants. An equal amount is also recommended for
children up to 18 years of age. In a
few studies, it has been noted that as little as 100IU of vitamin D
may prevent rickets. It has also
been noted that an area of skin of just 20 cm square exposed to the
sun for three hours daily will
prevent rickets.
In adults, vitamin D deficiency is noted most frequently in pregnant
women. It appears as painful
malformations of pelvis and femur. The average curative dose of
vitamin D in rickets is about
5,000IU daily. The administration of the vitamin should be always
accompanied by adequate calcium
and phosphorus intakes in the daily diet. Exposure to sunlight is also
helpful.
The prescription of high doses of vitamin D in the absence of a
deficiency can result in
hypercalcaemia - excessive calcium in blood. If this condition is
prolonged, it may lead to heart
and kidney damage. Symptoms of vitamin D toxicity include nausea,
vomiting, anorexia, headache,
weakness, apathy, polyuria and bone pain. As vitamin plays an
important role in mineralisation and
calcification of bones, the symptoms of excessive ingestion of vitamin
D are the result of
abnormalities in calcium metabolism. These are largely due to
hypercalcaemia which cause
calcification of soft tissue and produce renal impairment.
Clinically, most cases of hypervitaminosis D seen in adults are the
result of large doses of the
vitamin used for the treatment of conditions that are not associated
with vitamin D deficiency.
Daily ingestion in excess of 2,000IU in children or 75,000IU in adults
may produce toxic symptoms
related to hypervitaminosis D. For example, most cases of vitamin D
toxicity have been reported to
occur after the ingestion of greater than 50,000IU daily for several
years.
There is wide individual variation in the amount of vitamin D that
causes hypervitaminosis. The
continued ingestion of 50,000IU or more daily by a person with normal
vitamin D sensitivity may
result in poisoning. Doses of 60,000IU per day can cause
hypercalcaemia, with muscle weakness,
Proteinuria, hypertension and irregular heartbeat. Symptoms and signs
generally appear two to eight
days after acute intoxication with massive doses of vitamin D.
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| Valentina 2005-12-27, 10:56 am |
| Thank you Jim,
"Three Coins in The Fountain" was shot in Rome, which is quite near to
Florence, but very different city. Florence is 43.78 latitude, but MS
diffusion in Italy is the opposite than the rest of the world: we have more
MSers in the South than in the North.
My baby is taking 100 IU calcium every day and I try to expose him to
sunlight daily or so. Now it is quite cold, but we use to have mild winter
(rarely below 0).
20 cm square I think it is his face, but 3 hours are too much in winter!
I'll talk with the paediatrian doctor to have more vitamin D at least in
winter.
Thank you again,
Valentina
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| Valentina,
This is some thing I thought of and for financial reasons (mainly my
job) did not do. In a paper it was stated that for children who move to
warmer climate ( lower lattitudes ) the occurrence of MS is lower than the
people who stayed in the higher latitudes.
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Quaecomque sunt vera ----
"Valentina" <valentina@TOGLIQUESTOduestrade.it> wrote in message
news:43b149e9$0$1069$4fafbaef@reader4.news.tin.it...
> Thank you Jim,
> "Three Coins in The Fountain" was shot in Rome, which is quite near to
> Florence, but very different city. Florence is 43.78 latitude, but MS
> diffusion in Italy is the opposite than the rest of the world: we have
> more
> MSers in the South than in the North.
> My baby is taking 100 IU calcium every day and I try to expose him to
> sunlight daily or so. Now it is quite cold, but we use to have mild winter
> (rarely below 0).
> 20 cm square I think it is his face, but 3 hours are too much in winter!
> I'll talk with the paediatrian doctor to have more vitamin D at least in
> winter.
>
> Thank you again,
> Valentina
>
>
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| QQQte@webtv.net 2005-12-27, 10:56 am |
| the chances of your child getting ms because you have it are rare. they
don't know what causes ms and they don't know how to cure it.......
just enjoy your child and remember her chances of ms are slim.... there
are many more hurdles a child must go thru as they learn and grow. the
little stinkers do some dangerous things and most make it but it sure
scares us parents almost to death...
again just enjoy your child we worry about one thing and then something
else happens... keep a healthy balance... dory
btw there is nothing you can do to prevent anyone from getting ms. i
grew up where the winters are bad.... that seens to make a difference
but i don't have the facts on why that happens to be either...... dory
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| Valentina
>Do you know any prevention against >MS for children?
There's no way to prevent MS; they don't know what causes it.
But MS is not "passed on," like other diseases. The chances of your
baby getting it, too, are very slight.
I'm what they call an MS "orphan." No other blood relatives have it.
My late cousin by marriage had it, and none of her 5 sons got it. Most
of them are older than I am, late 40s to late 50s, so they are all well
past the age people get it.
I hope this makes you feel better about your baby and MS!
Sylvia
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| Valentina 2005-12-28, 10:57 am |
| > I'm what they call an MS "orphan."
Cute definition! I'm also an MS orphan ;-)
Maybe this means that our MS is more difficoult to be inherited.
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Valentina
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| Valentina 2005-12-28, 10:57 am |
| > again just enjoy your child we worry about one thing and then something
> else happens... keep a healthy balance... dory
I know and I try not to think to the eventuality, but if there is something
that could be done, I feel better if I do ;-)
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Valentina
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