Questions: Fish oil & acidophilus supplements?!
Question:
Questions: Fish oil & acidophilus supplements?
I will be asking my doctor about this next week, but am looking for opinions here first. I'm thinking of taking taking fish oil capsules to help relieve symptoms of depression, and acidophilus to reduce yeast infections. I'm currently 38 weeks pregnant and planning to breastfeed.
1. Are these supplements ok to take while pregnant or breastfeeding... are there any potential side effects that would affect the baby or milk production?
2. What is the recommended dosage for each?
3. Is it ok to take them with food and before bedtime? I tend to get sick from vitamins otherwise.
4. Is there anything specific I need to look for on the label to ensure I am purchasing a quality product, or can you recommend a quality product?
THANKS!
Answers:
Fish Oil is very important for the Brain and Eye development of your baby and can help with postpartum depression. MAKE SURE it is a high quality fish oil, that is molecularly distilled to remove mercury and pcb's. 1000mg of fish oil is standard.
If you get a high quality fish oil, the baby won't taste it and won't refuse to eat, the higher the quality the fish oil the less fishy it should taste.
I like the Nordic Naturals fish oil. It is third party tested for purity and freshness, and bottled in Norway within 6 hours from the time they catch the fish.
http://www.nordicnaturals.com/
Acidophilus is helpful for the baby too, look for something refrigerated with at least 4 billion units.
Ladybug is right, The Now brand is great, but I have never seen the mercury level data on their fish oil. Unless you can get tests on the mercury levels from Now, I might stick with Nordic Naturals.
From what I remember Nordic Naturals levels in mercury was .06. The FDA Allowance is no higher than .28. Obviously the lower the better. With fish oils and pregnancy, you want to make sure the oil is not only pure, but the purest on the market. Now doesn't produce and package their fish oil in Norway, like NN, so they might not be as good.