Re: Multi-Vitamin or Seperate?

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Can your child swallow capsules or pills? I do Brainchild for that reason

plus they make a great product. But then individual is also needed. How

old?

Tammy

[ ] Multi-Vitamin or Seperate?

Which is better, to give a multi or to seperate out the vitamins?

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It's a pretty individual thing. We used to do a multi until we started

biomed and mito cocktail. Then, I wanted more control over exact

amounts and went to individuals. It was easier to tailor it to multiple

kids that way.

P.

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She's 28 months, and I don't think I can get her to do a capsule. I

like most of brainchild's ingredients, but I have some concerns over

things like the Vitamin C, that it's calcium ascorbate instead of

sodium ascorbate. Otherwise it seems to be good. I was also just

wondering if it's better to seperate things

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Some things need to be separated. For many years now, I have used

the rule of thumb that iron and calcium should not be taken together

and to separate by at least 30 minutes. More recently, I have read

that they should be separated by at least 2 hours. Most of the

time, I take one of these in the evening and the other in the

morning, to take them far apart. I also discourage drinking milk

while eating beef at dinner and try to make sure that I do not take

iron right after eating yogurt or cheese. So when I see a

multivitamin that contains both iron and calcium, I generally assume

they are cancelling each other out and not accomplishing much of

anything.

Some vitamins need to be taken with specific others to get the most

benefit. Some need to be separated from others to get the most

benefit. I have paid the most attention to those things that I have

a big issue with. For example, I wrestle with anemia. This is why

I am so picky about taking my iron separate from my calcium.

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.org

http://www.kidslikemine.org

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> Which is better, to give a multi or to seperate out the vitamins?

My son never tolerated multis, so I gave individuals.

Dana

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On Behalf Of havasushannon

Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 5:12 PM

Subject: [ ] Multi-Vitamin or Seperate?

Which is better, to give a multi or to seperate out the vitamins?

====>A multi if they tolerate it, easier on you but many don't tolerate, ours

did. We tried a lot of them and there are a million out there, Brainchild's

got the thumbs down from our 4 year old, too icky.

If not, then individual.