Reply #22: Tell your SIL also to look into calcium carbonate

[Shallah Kali]

It slows digestion and as long as you stay within the RDA and have no health problems that require limiting calcium intake it should be safe. As it is usually only sold in a tablet combined with vitamin D be sure to make sure your SIL knows to keep that in the safe range as well.

Magneisum has the opposite effect and care should be taken with supplementing it until one can find the right amount one can take without causing problems. So far I haven't tried introducing magnesium myself. I want to get some magnesium in power form so I can tightly control the amount I take.

Between testing for food allergies (including Celiac), calcium, and enzymes I am down to 1 imodium per day. Please consider encouraging your brother to make sure he has been throughly tested for possible food sensitivies to make sure he does not have a combination of issues like me Celiac, dairy allergy, ibs, fructose malabsorption. If someone has Celiac even parts per million amounts cause a reaction. I have gotten ill from washing my hair with a conditioner with wheat in it :eek:

Oh I forgot enteric coated peppermint oil capsuels. There have actually been a few studies on this showing it help a signfigent number of people. The only problem is if you have acid reflux it makes it worse. I tried it for 3 days and couldn't stand the increase in reflux.