Fish oil - a product of natural origin, obtained from marine fish cod. The drug is prescribed in the period of active growth and development - fish oil for children is a natural source of vitamins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, strengthens the immune system.
release Form
Children often refuse to drink fish oil due to its specific aroma and flavor. For this reason, manufacturers have begun to produce the drug in gelatin capsules that do not have the characteristic smell - 500 mg of fish oil per capsule, 10 pieces per pack. In liquid form, it is released in vials of 50 and 100 ml. The liquid in the vial is clear, yellowish color, not muddy.
Benefits for the body
The composition of fish oil is a complex of valuable substances for the child's body:
- eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acid;
- hexadecanoic acid;
- octadecenoic acid;
- vitamin A;
- vitamins;
- ergocalciferol.
First acids listed are fatty substances extracted from cod liver.
They have such effects:
- normalization of brain development;
- positive impact on the development of the nervous system in children;
- normalization of development and operation of the retina.
The drug promotes the production of prostaglandins and thromboxane - substances promoting vasoconstriction and withdrawal of the inflammatory process.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids contribute to reducing bad cholesterol, triglycerides, improve elasticity of the cell membrane. Reduce platelet aggregation, thus preventing thrombus formation and high blood viscosity. These properties are useful to children genetically predisposed to atherosclerosis.
Why the drug is prescribed to children
In childhood, many children suffer from hyperactivity, poor sleep and crying in his sleep. From the very young children, parents should take care to ensure the full development of the central nervous system, bone and cartilage.
Organize meals, containing absolutely all the nutrients, it is not always possible. In addition, fish oil is allowed to children at an age in which the fatty marine fish varieties still can not be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract of children in full.
Fish oil is selected children's nutritionists, immunologists and pediatricians for the following reasons:
- preparation improves immunity - prevents viral and colds, and allergic bronchial asthma;
- helps preserve vision - it contains vitamins that are useful for the development and operation of the retina;
- It helps to reduce anxiety and worry - normalizes the central nervous system;
- It promotes intellectual development - fatty acids improve blood circulation and nutrition of brain tissue.
Natural remedy is the best alternative to synthetic drugs, does not harm the children if the dosage the doctor chosen correctly.
Indications for
Children take a supplement is shown in the following pathologies:
- ocular pathologies - retinitis, xerophthalmia, and others;
- lack of vitamins;
- lesions of the skin and mucous membranes;
- rickets, atrophy;
- frequent acute and chronic diseases of the upper respiratory tract;
- inflammatory and ulcerative diseases of the digestive tract, located to him;
- wounds and bone fractures.
Fish oil is useful for children and as a preventive agent against these diseases - for this reason, Many parents prefer to give their children preventive courses of Fish oil, especially during weak immune response.
Contraindications
In spite of the natural origin of the drug, giving children Fish oil is contraindicated in the presence of serious diseases of internal organs.
Among them:
- allergic episodes in the history of the disease provoked by the components of the drug;
- elevated concentration of calcium in the urine and blood;
- severe lung pathology;
- urinary disease and hepatobiliary systems;
- inflammation of the pancreas;
- autoimmune and cancer diseases;
- hemophilia;
- cholecystitis.
Application of Fish Oil in spite of contraindications can seriously undermine the health of children, because reception is possible only on the testimony and after the recommendation of a doctor.
Fish oil is forbidden to give to children suffering from any pathology associated with bleeding.
Dosage and Administration
The dosage is determined individually pediatrician.
For children shows the use of fish oil in such averaged dosages:
- with months of age - 3-5 drops twice a day;
- from a month to a year - 5 ml per day;
- from one year to six years - 10 ml per day in two divided doses;
- seven years - 15 ml three steps.
Fish oil is recommended to take courses lasting up to three months. After three months of use of children should be a laboratory diagnosis of the state of blood for erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and platelet aggregation. Depending on the results of diagnostics decide about the further application.
Despite the fact that the obvious benefits mainly to Fish Oil requires that children spend an allergy test to prevent unwanted reactions.
For this purpose, a small amount of fish oil in the form of oil is applied to the thin portions of the skin - the fold of the elbow or wrist. During the day there is a reaction of the skin. If there are any redness, rash, itching, or swelling - take capsules or oil is contraindicated. This reaction occurs in children who are allergic to fish Cod.
The use of capsules
Fish oil capsules for children is shown with three years of age. Assign one or two capsules three times a day. Also take courses in two or three months, periodically hold control blood clotting. The capsules need to give your baby after a meal, washed down with half a glass of clean water.
Children under three years are only in liquid form. Once you can start to use the capsules - they do not have an unpleasant odor and taste, chew them is not necessary, because not deliver the child discomfort.
Adverse reactions
Adverse effects occur rarely, but when they are detected should contact a pediatrician - it will adjust the dose or stop the drug.
Allergic reactions to Fish oils are developed in one child per hundred thousand children, with the same frequency - and other nasal bleeding. The latter reaction is associated specialists with a genetic predisposition to blood thinning and bleeding.
Rare disorder of the gastrointestinal tract, mainly - diarrhea or nausea.
Overdose
Overdose cases are not fixed during clinical trials. With long-term treatment with high dosages Fish oil can trigger the development of adverse reactions. In children, it is expressed as a rise in body temperature, drowsiness, lethargy, excessive sweating. In severe cases, children have skin rashes, nausea, reaching to vomit.
Under the recommended dosage ranges such reactions are excluded. Treatment symptomatic. Receiving Fish oil is canceled, adjusted diet with limited intake of calcium in the body.
sources:
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