fish oil help needed and archive access?

[Guest guest]

My son is 2.6 years old and he was taking the fish oil beautifully up until a

few days ago. We would put it into his juice or applesauce and it was a

non-issue. Now we are having trouble getting it into him and it is stressing me

out! Is there a better way? Something easier? (we were using the oil) I have

ordered the fishies and was going to use that at night after supper as an

" extra. "

Also -- how does one access the archived topics on the list serve????

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

Here is a huge amount of basic info from our Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115029735601#/topic.php?uid=115029735601 & t\

opic=7401

To search the archives (which only members can do) you will

need to go first to our group

Once you are at the Groups web site you will see a white box with the

words " Search Archive. " You'll also find this if you click on messages. All you

need to do is put in key words for

example " EFA " or " ProEfa " etc. and this will bring up a list of

messages of interest. If you want to be more exact (say look for messages from

a certain date or from a certain person) then click on advanced search.

You will also find a list of links to just about any topic on the left side of

the screen.

And here are tips on how to get fish oils into a child

My 5 year old apraxic son Tanner is a trooper and takes the ProEFA from a spoon

every day. I hold his nose for him, but he doesn't mind the taste. We started

the holding the nose thing when Tanner used to take the efalex, which is very

fishy smelling and tasting, and it's

kind of our ritual now.

I rip only half of the protective waxy seal off the top of the ProEFA bottle,

and put a pin in the part that is left. When it's time to give Tanner his

ProEFA, I open the top of the bottle, pull out the pin, put a hole in the

capsule, put back the pin, and squeeze the oil onto a spoon.

Here are some other things we used to have to do when Tanner took the efalex

which he hated. (Efalex is fishier tasting and smelling)

1. We would put just put a drop of fish oil in the middle of the bread for a

sandwich and cover with peanut butter, a drop in the middle of a pancake, a drop

in the middle of a bowl of spaghetti, etc. if we put too much fish oil, Tanner

would not eat the food.

2. Glenn and Tanner and Dakota would each hold a cup filled with a dash of

juice. Tanner's juice was always " spiked " with efalex. Tanner is very

competitive and would love a good race. " Ready set Go! " and Glenn would hold the

cup to his mouth without drinking and then stop and have all three compare who

drank the most. Of course, Tanner was winning! They would keep doing this until

Tanner won (which meant he finished the efalex fish oil spiked juice)

3. I used to bribe Tanner with gummy bears that he could have after. Didn't work

as good as the first two. But for a long time we did a combination of number one

and number three.

4. Tanner's older brother started taking the fish oil, and Tanner wants to do

what Dakota does.

5. As Tanner got older, at about four, we started calling the fish oil " yucky

magic fish oil which helps you talk " and we really made a big deal about how

yucky it was, and would " show off " to people how Tanner could take this yucky

stuff and eat it right off the spoon. It worked for Tanner!

It was lots of work, but well worth the results. If your child will not take

ProEFA, maybe buy some efalex and try that. Compared to efalex, a sock would

probably be a treat!

Again, some EFAs are liked by some children-hated by others. With ProEFA - many

kids from the Cherab group will just eat it from a spoon, or chew the capsule

since borage oil is naturally sweet. I can say that ProEFA does not smell like

some of the other EFAs we've

used. After a year and a half of Tanner hiding behind the couch when it was time

to take other fish oils, this was amazing even without all the great

breakthroughs he's had!

The improvements when on the right supplement and the regressions on the wrong

one are pretty quick-within weeks in most cases-so again you can see for

yourself-like most of us did already!

http://latetalker.org/information/dietaryeffects/efatips.html#My

Hope that helps!

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