Stammering from the fish oils? Is this the famous fish oil plateau?

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Hi,

I have been giving my daughter (2 yrs 7 months old) the Nordic Naturals fish oil

supplement for 3 months now. Initially, started with 1 ProEFA capsule everyday,

then bumped it up to 2 ProEFA capsules a day and finally added 1 ProEPA capsule

to the dosage.

The gains were good. Her speech was developing (though slowly) even before the

fish oils but I think it accelerated her speech development a little and

certainly made her more intelligent. She presently has some 350 - 400 words or

word approximations in her vocab and speaks some 3 word sentences. She is still

missing the " s " , " k " , " g " , " f " , etc. sounds. She has become a bit of a " parrot "

where she always repeats the last word or last couple of words of whatever she

hears spoken around her or spoken to her.

However, all of a sudden, for the last week or so she has started stammering a

LOT. The stammering is of the kind where for eg. if we she is saying " birthday " ,

she will go like " bbbbbbbbbbbbbbirthday " . She has never done anything like this

before! It started about a week ago but has now increased so much that it's

happening almost in everything she speaks. For eg. if she says a 3 word

sentence, most likely the 1st word will be stammered and the next 2 words will

come out fine. Could this be because of the fish oils? Should I stop the oils

for sometime? I have heard about some " plateau " in development with the fish

oils... could someone please explain what this means and what should be done to

overcome it?

Also, what should I do about the stammering? Should I try to make her conscious

of it whenever she does it or should I just ignore it and not make a big deal

out of it in front of her?

Thanks,

Nikunj

[Guest guest]

Hi!

 

Don't know if it's directly related to the fish oils since I've done an

experiment by taking Josh off fish oils for awhile - and he developed a stammer

as well.  Every once in awhile, he'll do the stutter/stammer/dysfluency thing -

sometimes emotional reasons, sometimes just not supporting his words with

breath.  Once thing I think has been found online here is that a ratio of 2:1 or

3:1 EPA:DHA seems to work best, depending on the kid, of course.  You may want

to try cutting back or adjusting ratios that you're giving your dd to see if it

has any effect on the stammer.  I try to not " ignore " the stammer with Josh but

to give him time to get the word out and, if he really gets stuck on it, gently

touch his arm or hand or cheek, tell him to " stop, think about your word, breath

the word " and that seems to help.  Breath support is really important for sound

production and language development - yoga helped Josh as did slow breathing

exercises.  Then

again, so did jumping and other movement that really got the breathing going!

 

Just some suggestions.. Good Luck!

Sherry and Josh

From: nickoct1979 <nikunj@...>

Subject: [ ] Stammering from the fish oils? Is this the famous

" fish oil plateau " ?

Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:04 AM

Hi,

I have been giving my daughter (2 yrs 7 months old) the Nordic Naturals fish oil

supplement for 3 months now. Initially, started with 1 ProEFA capsule everyday,

then bumped it up to 2 ProEFA capsules a day and finally added 1 ProEPA capsule

to the dosage.

The gains were good. Her speech was developing (though slowly) even before the

fish oils but I think it accelerated her speech development a little and

certainly made her more intelligent. She presently has some 350 - 400 words or

word approximations in her vocab and speaks some 3 word sentences. She is still

missing the " s " , " k " , " g " , " f " , etc. sounds. She has become a bit of a " parrot "

where she always repeats the last word or last couple of words of whatever she

hears spoken around her or spoken to her.

However, all of a sudden, for the last week or so she has started stammering a

LOT. The stammering is of the kind where for eg. if we she is saying " birthday " ,

she will go like " bbbbbbbbbbbbbbirth day " . She has never done anything like this

before! It started about a week ago but has now increased so much that it's

happening almost in everything she speaks. For eg. if she says a 3 word

sentence, most likely the 1st word will be stammered and the next 2 words will

come out fine. Could this be because of the fish oils? Should I stop the oils

for sometime? I have heard about some " plateau " in development with the fish

oils... could someone please explain what this means and what should be done to

overcome it?

Also, what should I do about the stammering? Should I try to make her conscious

of it whenever she does it or should I just ignore it and not make a big deal

out of it in front of her?

Thanks,

Nikunj

[Guest guest]

hi,

Try to search in archives for stuttering lisa has often written about this stage

of development for some kids with communication disorders. Start there- happy

reading!

erin