Replied by Joyce (Joelton, Tn) on 10/17/2008
Hi Linda, Did I read that right. MgOxide 400 x8 daily. No wonder you can't keep your Magnesium up. There is an excellent article on transdermal magnesium on line - As the author says because of its laxative quality, it is difficult to take enough orally without diarrhea causing you to most of what you take. It isn't the way he says do it, but seems to me that visiting the Dollar Tree or another like it and purchasing a 2 lb. carton of epsom salts which is magnesium sulfate, putting a cupful in your bath water several times a week should be an excellent way to do transdermal magnesium supplements.Replied by Joyce (Joelton, Tn) on 10/19/2008
Hi Linda, Your Gitelman's Syndrome sent me on line to find out what it was. After reading what it is, I got to wondering why? My mother died with pyelonephritis and when she'd have another bout of it she would dump potassium. Me and an older sister did the same thing with a bout of pyelonephritis. Now we know that something is messed up in the kidneys, it makes you wonder why it is causing loss of magnesium, chloride, sodium. The first question that comes to mind is: Do you drink carbonated beverages? If you do I suggest that you leave off all carbonated beverages for at least 4 weeks or more to see it makes you feel better. If it does, you might want to get your blood and/or urine checked to see if you are still spilling these necessary nutrients. If you find you are spilling less or hopefully stopped spilling them altogether, you will have found the cause of your problem. The reason I am suggesting this is because we picked up 4 children who were spilling protein in their urine and could find no explanation for it. Remembering several short articles I had read several years earlier about 2 men who developed gross hematuria and the doctors could not determine any cause for it and both cleared up while in the hospital. One thorough and curious doctor started visiting both patients and finally determined that both men worked in a large carbonated beverage bottling plant at the capping machine which was a hot warehouse type job. Both had a habit of getting an uncapped beverage of the machine and drinking it when thirsty instead of getting a drink of water. Doing nothing other than having the children's mom totally eliminate all carbonated beverages solved the problem. One week later the 4+ proteinuria and dropped to a trace (Mom said she fudged and drank one on the way to the clinic that morning. The other three had gone from 3+ to negative protein in the urine. Their problem was also in the tubules of the kidneys. Apparently something or maybe a combination of all the unnecessary chemicals in the carbonated beverages caused swelling in the tubules that let the protein spill into the urine instead of where it was supposed to be. The quickest way to find out is to eliminate them and see if it makes a difference in your particular case. Let us know how it comes out - you may be able to help others with the same or similar problem. Good luck & God bless.
