EFA's--please explain

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Going into the Cherab website I have found information that the trials

were done using ProEFA and that the best dosage was EPA 148 mg; DHA 99

mg; GLA 40 mg.

I also found information there that said that an actual range should

be EPA 150 to 250 mg; DHA around 100 mg; GLA 30 to 50 mg.

The ProEFA label shown in your shop-in-service site shows the dosages

listed above, in the first paragraph. However, the Nordic Naturals

site that I visited lists per 2 soft gels, so if you used 1 soft gel

per day, it would be EPA 135 mg; DHA 90 mg; and GLA 33 mg. According

to the first critera which you used in testing, these levels are a

little low.

You also name Efalex as being a good one to use. I see that 2 caps

contain EPA 30 mg; DHA 130 mg; GLA 25 mg. I emailed the Efamol

company in the UK for their label information, as I have not been able

to find Efalex here and therefore have not been able to get that

information. These amount are way different from the original criteria.

You also name EyeQ as being an effective product. Their capsules,

using 2 500mg capsules, or using the liquid, the amount would be EPA

186mg; DHA 58 mg; GLA 20 mg. If you used the sachet it would be EPA

275 mg; DHA 100 mg; GLA 31 mg.

I am absolutely and utterly confused. I thought the amounts of EPA,

DHA, and GLA were fairly critical and should be in a particular

proportion to one another.

Even though the ProEFA has diffrent amounts used than what you used in

the trials, it seems the closest to what was used in the trials.

However, it contains lemon oil, and our two-year-old who has apraxia,

is allergic to citrus. I am trying to find out now whether maybe

lemon oil isn't very acidic as compared to lemon juice, hoping that

possibly Pro EFA with the lemon oil would be okay to use. It is very

worrisome. If it isn't okay, then I just plain don't know what to do.

These products are all so different from what was used in the trials.

And anyway, I haven't even been able to find Efalex or EyeQ.

I have checked a number of other companies' products and can't find

anything close to the original ProEFA used in the trials. I don't

want to mess up. I think it might be difficult enough to get him to

take the bad-tasting oil, and for sure I want to be using the right

EFA product that will help the most.

Please, please, please tell me what I am supposed to be doing here.

We are extremely anxious to get our son started on EFA's. What are

the names of some of the products you are successfully using? Where

do you purchase them? What stores are they in?

Do the children take the fish oil squeezed from the capsule? The

taste must be awful (of course that is why the lemon oil is in the

ProEFA, to make it more palatable.). Do you use an eyedropper to get

it into the mouth?

I have been tormenting over this, and I just can't find out what I

need to know. Please help me with this.

Thank you. Suzanne

*http://www.cherab.org/information/dietaryeffects/efabasics.html