? on supplementing Vitamin A and EFAs

[Guest guest]

I was talking chelation supplements today with some friends, and now my brain is

tired

and I'm confused.

My 2 NT girls and I are taking the Carotenoid Complex from Vitamin Shoppe. It

says

Vitamin A as beta-carotene, 5000 IU. I am also adding some extra Dry Vitamin A

from

Vitamin Shoppe to get up to 500% RDA (25,000 IU) for me, and 300% (15,000 IU)

RDA for

the kids. The Dry Vitamin A bottle says 50% acetate and 50% beta-carotene.

One friend mentioned that taking Vitamin A in acetate form was important. Why?

We have also been taking flax seed oil, inconsistently. My youngest dd was not

tolerating

Nordic Naturals Omega-3 previously, so we stopped. The plan is to try to

introduce some

EFAs again, in the form of Nordic Naturals Omega-3 pills or NN CLO (liquid). My

bottle of

NN Omega-3 doesn't say anything about Vitamin A content, only Omega-3 fatty

acids,

700 mg (EPA 360 mg, DHA 240 mg). The supplement file here says to take into

consideration the amount of Vitamin A in CLO.

Confused,

in Illinois