The Vitamin Your Child’s Brain May Not Be Getting
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- A transport problem, not a diet problem: Lindsey describes autoantibodies that bind the folate receptors at the blood-brain barrier, so folate can be present in the body and still not get where it is needed.
- Why this went unlooked-for so long: the reference-standard test was a spinal tap. A blood test changed who gets evaluated, and Lindsey walks through what it involves and what it currently costs.
- How she thinks about a child who is always flaring: when the pattern stops looking like flare-and-recover, she looks harder at infection, and explains why tick-borne illness sits so high on her list.
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