That Omegaven story concerns TPN (total parenteral nutrition) IV for babies with defects of the GI tract. These babies cannot eat for a long time while surgery and healing fix the defect. Typical TPN mixtures did not include omega-3s....and the babies died of liver failure.
By putting Omegas in the TPN they survived. Now I am somewhat dismayed that this was not figured out long before. We now have omegas added to baby formula ..why would any TPN mix be any different in need? eh?
It is sort of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in medicine.
EFAs are ESSENTIAL... why is essential so hard to understand? Well, at least they are putting them in the IVs now.
There is a post in our Vitamin forum that discusses this...
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl...to+d2+receptor
This has to do with dopamine binding and TS... which I think is a special case.
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