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 EXETER, England, Feb. 22 — Children with Down’s syndrome did not improve their Action Points
Explain to interested patients that early vitamin supplementation for children with Down’s syndrome may not improve development.

Note that antioxidant supplements and folinic acid cannot be recommended for children with Down’s syndrome based on the available evidence.
development with the use of antioxidant vitamins, researchers here found.
Psychomotor and language development scores were no better among British children with Down’s given antioxidants or folinic acid (an active metabolite of folic acid) or both than among those who received neither, reported Stuart Logan, MBChB, of Peninsula Medical School, and colleagues online in BMJ.
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