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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind and how much magnesium do you give to a 7 year old with a tic?  Does omega 3 help?[/quote]

New poster who also uses Attentive Child (& Coromega, which I also recommend).  My then 5-year-old developed a facial tic last fall.  It was so upsetting because it seemed to come out of nowhere and our neurologist had no advice other than "it will probably go away, lots of children this age develop tics and they disappear as suddenly as they came."  Needless to say, I did not find that to be a satisfactory answer and enrolled myself in Google University researching tics.  What I found was that a lot of people with serious tic disorders (such as Tourette's) take Magnesium because it has a relaxing effect on the muscles.  Magnesium is a necessary nutrient, but it is rarely, if ever, included in multi-vitamins because it is so bulky.  I figured Mg was an easy thing to try and bought a bottle of Attentive Child.  I gave two tablets the night I bought them and two more the next morning and I swear the tic was almost gone within 18 hours.  It was THAT dramatic.  And, it was completely gone within 48 hours and it has never come back.  We now do only one tablet per day.  It tastes like a big "Sweet Tart" btw, if you're old enough to have eaten those.  Alternatively, you could use Epsom Salt baths.  Epsom Salts are Magnesium Sulfate which can be absorbed trans-dermally in a 1% solution.  (That's the reason a lot of people find Epsom Salt baths to be relaxing.)  However, you won't get the Zinc and other trace nutrients or ingredients (I think there might be some GSE in there too?) that you get from the Attentive Child supplements.

Good luck.

P.S.  Omega 3s are good for a lot of things and we use them, but I'm not aware of any specific benefit for tics.  OTOH, they can't hurt.[/quote]

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