Which fish oil?

[musica]

Which is the fish oil that is supposed to help autistic spectrum children? Are there any that are suitable for 3 year olds. Anyone have any experience of them? Were they effective or not? Thanks!

musica, this is the recent thread on fish oils: here

The research into fish oils and ASD is a bit ropey (not very robust- the best research has been on dyspraxia). Try any, but they have different compositions so if no changes are seen after 3 months on one brand then swop to another. Be careful if the child has epilepsy as well (avoid EPO)

I have just started using Efalex (again!)

Thanks - do you think Efalex or Eye-Q is better? Or is it best just to see how you go with one? And are these ok for 3 year olds. (This isn't for me by the way - it's for a friend who doesn't have internet access).

Efalex can be used from 2. Eye Q is quite a bit more expensive. I think they are both roughly the same in tests.

Efalex is fishier and gives fishy burps, but if you are cutting open the capsules its much easier than trying to open EyeQ's capsules. They do have weird microtables of EyeQ but there's no way ds2 would have taken them.

Jimjams - I use Eye-Q liquid and just measure a teaspoon.

In a spectacular volte-face I decided to try this with my ds, and he has been happily having the stuff Furball linked to. He likes it, says it tastes just like oranges, and I've never noticed fishy burps from him with it!

ooh that's new. I use pro-efa but if we change I will try that.