Posted by supamom on October 26, 2005, at 1:18:22
In reply to Re: neurotransmitter urine test, posted by greenhornet on October 25, 2005, at 13:09:10
> The tests were for more than just "neurotransmitters" (and here we are not talking about neurotransmitters in the brain but the whole body). The doctors are probably trying to rule out a metabolic disorder of which there are many --some of which can cause the symptoms you describe.
> I would get a second opinion from a pediatric neurologist, preferably one at a University Medical Center.
> You might want to check out this website also, it explains PDD-NOS pretty well.
> http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/pddnos.htmlThanks for the info...the test was exactly for that. It was a neurotransmitter urine test that measures neurotransmitters in the urine comparable to the neurotransmitters in the brain to check if the levels are where they should be. Neuroscience is the name of the clinical research lab and he has already been tested - ordered by his pediatric neurologist for metabolic disorders. The neurologist ordered an amino acid analysis to look for metabolic defects and he had chromosonal tests specifically for his chromosome karyotype, subtelomeric fish and fragile X study. All these tests came back normal. His OD than ordered the 1.neurotransmitter test, 2.spectracell test (which looks for any vitamin and mineral deficiences), 3.US Biotek test (tests for allergens from 98 foods and 48 inhalants - my son also has asthma, severe environmental allergies and mild to moderate food allergies, 4. Complete blood count analysis and 5. Detoxi Genomic test to look at his DNA makeup and evaluate if there are red flags within his DNA that would, ie. affect the way he is able to process drugs, toxins, etc. The complete blood count and spectracell came back normal. The 3 that didn't were no surprise to us since he does suffer from allergies, has learning and social disorders and seizures...although it did alarm us the amounts of foods that affect him...when we took him to his allergist a year ago we skin tested him primarily for environmental allergens. Most of those showed up in the results as IgE...antibodies that may be associated with immediate-onset hypersensitivity reactions. Most of the foods that showed up as moderately or highly reactive were all IgG ... antibodies that may be associated with delayed-onset hypersensitivity reactions. I do have an issue with this test because all of the food allergens have an asterix (*) by them with a key that states incomplete testing for items with (*) due to insufficient sample...yet they give recommendations as follows :- highly reactive - all dairy, peanuts, soybeans, spelt, wheat, whey, yogurt, all casein and all gluten. Moderately reactive - blueberry, egg white and yolk, lemon, orange and all gliadin. My husband and I left wondering what we can feed him! And again, the whole reactive foods list (including all the foods that scored no reaction and low had (*) by them...so I'm a bit confused with that test. He is scheduled for 2 more - both stool tests - one to look for yeast and parasites and the other to test for heavy metals.
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