Taking the Scenic Route

About the only biomedical treatment we have done is introducing Omega fatty acids to his already existing mulit-vitamin.  It has seemed to help.  I was talking to another mom in the waiting room and she said that a particular omega blend has seen more dramatic success than a lot of others and I got the name and looked it up.  As it turns out, it is the same brand as he already takes, just a slightly different combination, so I ran to the HFS and picked them up.  It is still a chewable, but instead of strawberry, it is lemon.  Zach said he took it willingly this morning, so that is a relief.  We will have to see if this helps him a little more.

The kind we used to get: 

The new kind:

The biggest change we noticed is that his enunciation became much better within a few weeks of taking it, but the thing that made me realize it is probably doing more than that is that we didn’t really have many problems with him during the move, but within a week or two afterwards, which coincides with about the same amount of time I was not as vigilant about giving him the vitamins.  (there is a week or two lag from when he takes them and when we see an effect).  So, I figured it was worth a try.  We are wary of superloading on vitamins, but fish oil is one of the oldest and most used suppliments for a long, long time.  Zach took it as a kid and a lot of people in older generations used to take cod liver oil on a regular basis.  Plus, living in the middle of Kansas, you don’t get a great supply of good quality fresh fish, so eating fish 3 times a week (unless you really like canned tuna…blah) is really pricy and not easy.  It is unlikly to hurt anything at any rate.