Re: Anyone used NN Children's DHA for Apraxia?

[Guest guest]

My son is also 2 and verbal apraxic with sensory issues (not ASD). We were

doing the NN 3-6-9 for several months. Then I started doing more research and

reading books ( " Brain Building Nutrition " by Schmidt, PhD was really

enlightening) and decided based on my reading to switch to NN DHA (the adult,

not children's version, 2 gel caps per day) mainly because the books talk about

how the brain mainly uses the DHA not the EPA and how we already have way more

Omega 6's in our diet than we need. I also added Carlson's E Gems Elite (Vit E)

200IU each day and flax seed oil (1 tsp day) and is doing great. He was

making progress before but now he is making great progress...saying more

syllables, repeating words all the time, using more and new words

spontaneously...and I feel like not only is his speech improving but so is his

mood (calmer, happier, fewer tantrums). His SLP has noticed the improvement

too. I have been very happy with switching to the DHA.

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> I'm just wondering if anyone has tried the NN Children's DHA strawberry

liquid. I just started our 2 yr old (verbal apraxic) on it a couple days ago,

giving him 1/2 tsp twice a day. I was told to give it a couple weeks to see if

it will help him. I'm wondering if I should get the ProEFA and ProEPA for him

rather than the DHA. I'm looking for opinions of parents who may have already

tried this supplement. Thanks in advance! - Angie

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[Guest guest]

If you look through the archives for some reason it seems that kids with

apraxia who respond do well on the DHA/EPA ratio in the Omega 3-6-9 and EPA

formulas in the 2:1 ratio of ProEFA to ProEPA. would be the best to

address this. I know she has in the past.

Unfortunately this hasn't been researched yet with apraxic kids. Most of the

research I've seen on fish oils, including an Australian study a few years

ago, are on kids with ADHD. Those kids tend to need the higher DHA

concentration.

My child was not a fish oil responder, although we stayed on it for quite a

while (until he started resisting supplements) and he did respond when we

added in Vit E. My older son who has concentration issues (but not

diagnosed ADHD) did have increased attention with the ProEFA. He seemed to

do better with a higher DHA product as well.

Miche

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM, angie3742 <angie3742@...> wrote:

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> I'm just wondering if anyone has tried the NN Children's DHA strawberry

> liquid. I just started our 2 yr old (verbal apraxic) on it a couple days

> ago, giving him 1/2 tsp twice a day. I was told to give it a couple weeks to

> see if it will help him. I'm wondering if I should get the ProEFA and ProEPA

> for him rather than the DHA. I'm looking for opinions of parents who may

> have already tried this supplement. Thanks in advance! - Angie

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[Guest guest]

Hi Angie

We tried the NN DHA with my 2y.old but it didn't seem to make any difference for

her. After a month we switched to Pro Efa and vit.E and we saw a change with in

3 days.I'm sure it doesn't work like this for every one but it did for us.

Krys

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> > I'm just wondering if anyone has tried the NN Children's DHA strawberry

> > liquid. I just started our 2 yr old (verbal apraxic) on it a couple days

> > ago, giving him 1/2 tsp twice a day. I was told to give it a couple weeks to

> > see if it will help him. I'm wondering if I should get the ProEFA and ProEPA

> > for him rather than the DHA. I'm looking for opinions of parents who may

> > have already tried this supplement. Thanks in advance! - Angie

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[Guest guest]

We had great success with it! We started just shy of D's 2nd birthday. He was

virtually non-verbal, didn't even say mama or dada and had limited oral mobility

beyond the movements that it took to eat or drink. When we started the NN

Pro-EFA he began imitating a few simple consonants (this was a few months before

early intervention services began) and almost immediately after we added Pro-EPA

he began saying mama and dada (also before speech therapy began). Now, he's on

the verge of his 3rd birthday and he speaks in 7-9 word sentences and in whole

paragraphs. The problem is that his speech is extremely unclear and he still has

significant oral weakness, but oh how wonderful it is to hear his little voice

at all.

If you haven't read it already, The Late Talker has information on it and you'll

probabaly want to check out the Cherub list serve's files as well. In the words

of my son's regular pediatrician who is not a believer in supplements, " Well,

fish oil isn't going to hurt him and it's not like he can over-dose on it so you

may as well go ahead and try it if you think it might work. "

Turns out that in my research I found a report from the American Academy of

Pediatrics (I think it was them, I can go digging for it if you need me to. I

provided it to my pediatrician some time ago.) that a significant number of

children who were diagnosed with apraxia also suffer from gut issues that

prevent their bodies from absorbing the necessary nutrients for proper brain and

neurological development. This includes celiac... which we later discovered that

both my son and husband have. His verbalization improved even more on top of

what the NN DHA/EPA supplemenation did when we removed gluten from his diet,

added vitamin and mineral supplementation for the nutrients he was not absorbing

and addressed his " leaky gut " issues. Prior to this we were assured many times

by his regular pediatricians that his " elimination " was normal even though I

suspected they were not. It took a developmental pediatrician to solve the gut

mystery.

Good luck! There's a lot of information out there... it's just figuring out what

will work best for your little one that's the hard part since each child is so

different.

sincerely,

les