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My little guy had his kidney checkup last week. He's doing really well, labs look great for him, he's grown since we were there last. She was really happy with how he's doing. Tristan still has a lot of tummy issues so we just started him on a probiotic for kids. It's already helping his tummy. I'm really curious to see if I'll see an improvment in how often he gets sick since it's supposed to strengthen your immune system. Tristan's speech has really improved lately too. He's talking up a storm now so all therapists, dr's ect. are really happy about that too. Now if I could just get him and his brother to stop fighting that would be great :)

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Comment by Phyllis Ann Talbot on July 6, 2010 at 7:27am
Yippee!! that sounds so good and I can totally relate on the fighting!! (even though mine's a girl and a boy - doesn't seem to be any better!)
Comment by Linda Burke on July 6, 2010 at 12:11am
Hi Wendy,
Love hearing that Tristan is doing well....hooray for good labs! Skyler is "cheating' his way through the probiotic world with a yummy little smoothie from Whole Foods, Lifeway (www.lifeway.net ) Organic "ProBugs" is a whole milk kefir that tastes so good and is packaged so cute that even Skyler finishes the whole "Goo-Berry Pie" drink with a smile. Nice to just be concerned about brotherly fighting, isn't it! ;-D
Comment by Cheryl Biermann on July 5, 2010 at 11:46pm
Wow! This is really fantastic! Go Tristan!
Comment by Theresa Pereira on July 5, 2010 at 4:47pm
Glad to hear things are going well.
Olivia is on a probiotic drink as well once a day (http://www.danactive.com/danactive_faq.html)
basically we start her with a multi vitamin in the morn
probiotic drink at 3:30
iron suppliment at 5:30
acai berry juice (organic 1/2 ounce only) at night
Have a great healthy summer!!

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CFH (Serum Complement Factor H) is a regulatory protein. The secreted protein product of CFH consists of 20 repetitive units named "short consensus repeats" or SCRs (each approximately 60 amino acids). In patients with aHUS the last 5 "pearls" in the twenty pearl strand protein, SCR16 - SCR20, should bind to protect cells but do not- they are defective in one or more of the last 5 SCR locations. If they cannot bind or stick to the kidney to protect that tissue, the platelets clump into clots that affect the glomeruli of the kidney -potentially causing acute renal failure.
  
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