Natural Alternatives: Eye Q for Treating ADHD Symptoms

Written by Sarah-Jayne Bass

People share their stories about Eye Q, a combination omega-3 and omega-6 supplement, and natural treatment of ADHD symptoms.

Eye Q

Hannah from UK wrote to us saying:
"Equazen Nutraceuticals has recently developed eye q, a combination supplement with high-EPA marine fish oil, pure evening primrose oil and Vitamin E. eye q's EPA content is significantly higher than that of comparable fish oil products.

The company is working in partnership with the Hyperactive Children's Support Group (HACSG). Selected families have been given samples of eye q for their ADHD child to use in a pilot study. Sally Bunday, co-founder of the HACSG, said: "Previous HACSG studies have shown that EPAs can have a positive effect on the behaviour of hyperactive children, so I am continuing to encourage families to try an EPA-rich natural supplement to complement their diet before they consider methylphenidate medication.

Dr Basant Puri, Clinical Psychiatrist at Hammersmith Hospital, London, agrees, saying: "Many parents might in the first instance prefer their children to try a naturally occurring supplement composed of safe nutrients, before opting for a synthetic amphetamine drug with known adverse side effects.

For more information on eye q and Equazen's product range visit the website at http://www.equazen.com/"

Jan 2001, Dean from UK wrote to us saying:

"We had hit some real problems with our son. You may remember that our son is at boarding school. We had moved our children to what seemed to be a fantastic school but even they were having trouble with our Son. He had stopped having any appetite and his ADHD had developed a real ODD side which was causing huge problems at school and home.

Well Christmas holidays came round and we saw that he really didn't have any appetite. It wasn't as he put it , the terrible food at school but just that he had no appetite. He had lost weight, worrying at 11 years old when he was growing upwards but getting thinner and lighter !

I read in the Daily Express about a woman's success with her ADHD son through taking Eye Q. So we took the plunge and he started taking the Eye Q 2 weeks before Christmas holidays, combining them with his Ritalin. We tried to cope with him without Ritalin when he got home and seemed to be having good results. We initially put this down to "Christmas is coming I had better behave!". However this carried on through and over Christmas and by now we had stopped Ritalin altogether. Amazingly, he would be in bed and asleep before us every night without arguments (the first time for years !)

Eye Q has a normal build up period of 12 weeks. We didn`t expect results very quickly but without doubt they started to work earlier than that. As the start of the new school term approached we started to feel that we really had hit on something and wrote to the school explaining that he was returning to school and we would like to try him without Ritalin !

The term started and (remember he boards Monday to Saturday) The first phone call came on Wednesday and it was from his teacher. He was being disruptive, but through sheer enthusiasm ! He had stopped arguing with the teacher at every chance, he was playing football at play times with the other boys (at their request !). The school cook instead of asking him to please eat something, was asking him not to take so much food as there would be none left for the others (a joke which he never would have laughed at before but would have taken as a personal slur.)

The house master who looks after the boys has commented on how well he looks, how co-operative he has become and the fact he can actually get up in the morning and getting ready without arguing and taking forever to get ready. Best of all, everyone comments on how happy he is ! Imagine our joy this week when the school secretary tells us on the phone that they have had a wonderful week with him. A word seldom used to describe our son!

This stuff "Eye Q" really works, it may not work for everyone but for us it did. The after effects of Ritalin may not have affected my son initially, and it really did save our family, through some desperate times. But after 3 ½ years the side effects really began to worry us.

We tried it and it worked, we shall start reducing the dosage down to the recommended two per day in another four weeks. ( we are only 8 weeks into the build up period so its not supposed to work yet !).

Finally we have a daughter who has real problems with reading and her memory is poor. Eye Q is advertised as having benefits for dyslexics so we are started her on it to. Could it be that they both have similar problems but they just demonstrate themselves in different fashions ?

We shall see, more reports to come and I am sure there are more success stories out there !" .