which omega 3 fish oil supplement? eye q??

mummyyummy_2

I was thinking of starting the eye q range for my kids but unsure if theres any better cheaper equivalents? Do you use them on your kids? Which is best.. capsules or sachets? I see they are on 3 for 2 at boots just now so I will prob get them...any one used/using at all? thanks x :j

retro_bluebell

I give my 3 the cheapy ones from Tescos think its a discount brand only 99p for 30...to be honest I have no idea if they work or not yet as we have only just started trying them...all 3 have a good varied diet with lots of fruit and veg but my 2 older boys (12 and 10) dont eat enough oily fish hence the reason I thought I would try them....sorry thats probably no help didnt want to r and r

stef240377

My gp told me the eye q ones atm are no different to taking bog stand omega 3. While he is an advocate for alternative therapies he believes there has not been enough indepth research to get a clearer picture to whether they make a huge difference. I suppose the change in a child who has a reasonable balanced with an occassional fish meal to a child who eats nothing but junk may be what the drug retailers want to see to promote the product especially as most of these are aimed at children.

Js_Other_Half

If you do a search on here you'll find a lot of threads around fish oils. For the record I get our (decent quality ) ones from zipvit.com .

Emmzi

I woukld invest £7 in the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, then save your money. IQ has not been proven to work better than placebo in any clinical trials AFAIK. Won't make em brainy, might help with joint mobility, but so will bog standard cod liver oil.

However, don't take my word for it, I'm not a scientist.

And it's a very entertaining book.

Filey

Emmzi wrote: »

I woukld invest £7 in the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, then save your money. IQ has not been proven to work better than placebo in any clinical trials AFAIK. Won't make em brainy, might help with joint mobility, but so will bog standard cod liver oil.

However, don't take my word for it, I'm not a scientist.

And it's a very entertaining book.

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Omega 3 fish oil is the same whether it is a cheapy from Tesco or an expensive 'super' brand.

And I can thoroughly recommend the book - you'll never look at the adverts for supplements (or some nutritionists) in quite the same light again. And you can get it from Amazon. And it is indeed very entertaining as well.

Nixer

I was about to post that you'd be better off spending your money on Bad Science but see a couple of people got there first. There's a good forum on the bad science website too.

Firefly

Unless a dietician (and I stress a dietician and not a nutritionist) recommends them then a good quality diet with oily fish at least twice a week should do the trick. If your children eat poorly then they may be beneficial but compare doses rather than brands.

Like others have said they don't make children brainy but you can't get fish oil in your diet if you don't eat fish!

hermanmunster_3

I'm a GP.
I just gave the kids Bad Science to read instead.

Errata

stef240377 wrote: »

My gp told me the eye q ones atm are no different to taking bog stand omega 3. While he is an advocate for alternative therapies he believes there has not been enough indepth research to get a clearer picture to whether they make a huge difference. I suppose the change in a child who has a reasonable balanced with an occassional fish meal to a child who eats nothing but junk may be what the drug retailers want to see to promote the product especially as most of these are aimed at children.

I expect your GP had the Durham schoool 'experiment' in mind.
http://www.badscience.net/2008/03/ding-dong-the-fish-is-dead/

webitha

i have not read bad science, but i will do soon

DS (age 10) aka thing 1 has ADHD with autistic tendencies, and without eye q my life would be hell, it calms him down and helps him concentrate, i have tried, oily fish and using own value brands (4 ovb in fact) but nothing helps as much as eye q, ritalin, just turned him into a zomnie but this lets him be a normal gormless 10 yr old boy :D

i have been trying the other ovb since he was about 5/6 but this i found the best.

it does depend on what you want from it though, i didnt want him to be super concentrated, and brainy, just to have some semblence (sp) of normal life and he gets that with eye q

i also give him and indian head massage eacxh sunday as i do with things 2 & 3, and that seems to help too