A lurker with a EFA dosing question

August 18, 2006

Hi. I've been a member of this group for a couple years now but I've never

posted before. My 5 year old has oral and verbal apraxia. The oral apraxia

is mostly resolved with a lot of work and EFA's. He turned 5 two weeks ago

and this was the first year he was able to blow out his birthday candles!! He

has been on 2 ProEFA and 1 ProEPA since before his third birthday. I

recently decided to add in another dosage. He has always gotten the EFA's in

the

morning. His progress seems to have plateaued lately. He is about 2 years

behind in speech right now and gets speech therapy and OT for fine motor delays

and he does have some sensory issues, so I thought doubling the dose might

give him another surge. So for the last couple of weeks he's been getting 2

ProEFA and 1 ProEPA in the am and the same in the afternoon/evening. And it's

been working. I'm pretty sure I've seen another surge. Unfortunately, he's

in that hyper period. Everytime I've upped his dose or he's had a lapse of

longer than a week when he get gets back on he has a period of 2-3 weeks when

he is just non-stop hyper, not listening and driving me insane but that

usually subsides. We are getting near the end of that now, thank goodness.

My

first question, is the hyperness normal? I think I read somewhere (but I

can't for the life of me remember where) that this means the EFA's are working?

Not sure. But at least I do know it's temporary! My second question and

I'm not sure if I've ever seen this come up is: can I give him both doses at

the same time? Can I just give him 4 ProEFA and 2 EPA in the morning or is it

better to space them out. For some reason he loves to take his " talking

medicine " in the morning and hates it in the afternoon. And I'm always almost

forgetting the second dose. I squeeze the caps right onto the spoon and he

says it's yummy. My 2 year old daughter loves it too. I started giving them

to her and take them myself . She has no issues with speech or anything, but

I figured they were good for all of us. I do try to keep up with reading

some of the messages, but there are so many.

Thanks for all your help! I love this list!

Fran in PA

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