ADHD Natural Cures - Must Know Guide For Parents

Dr. Gregory Fabiano, a researcher on ADHD, got the White House's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals, His co-author of the study is William Pelham , a distinguished scholar in child psychology. Their work has been published in the March issue of Clinical Psychiology Review which is an anlaysis of over 170 studies carried out at the University of Buffalo.

Basically his work shows that ADHD Behavior Therapy works as well, if not better , than any drugs for ADHD !

That means that when parents know how to react when kids behave well and also when they don't, this is just as effective and sometimes more effective than any ADHD medication!

Many parents are now turning to ADHD behaviour therapy and indeed all the Pediatric and ADHD support groups are advocating not just medication and diet but psychological intervention will be an essential part of the ADHD treatment portfolio. Behavioural therapy is high in the list and many parents can now cope by learning a few practical techniques.

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If you are worried about how diet affects your ADHD child and cannot cope with the idea of cooking wonderful wholesome meals, here are a few simple strategies for you to change ALL the family's diet for the better. These have been shown by the so-called 'experts' to have a more than beneficial effect on ADHD children and have definitly alleviated their symptoms.

1. Forget Feingold diet and other elimination diets. There are too many restrictions in the first and there is too much difficulty in the second! Feingold does not allow fruit which I and lots of nutritionists disagree with, so the first strategy is to pile up on fruits and vegetables in whatever form you like. Smoothies, soups, and whatever!

2. Get rid of all the processed food which is full of additives, colourings and pesticides and all sorts of toxins. There is enough evidence out there, believe me, which says that this rubbish ruins concentration and hypes up kids so that they are hyperactive. That means going organic when you can but without making it a big deal. Most diets for attention deficit disorder make a big deal of this and say you have to bake your own bread!

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First Fact:- ADHD is increasing rapidly. Just look at the figures for Holland- they have reported a 25% increase in cases in the last six months ! Similar spikes in USA.

Second Fact :- ADHD drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera and Concerta do NOT cure ADHD. They CAN help to relieve some symptoms but read on ....

Third Fact :- The above ADHD drugs DO have a wide range of side effects. The list is long and alrming to say the least !

Fourth Fact :- The bad news is that those children who took psychostimulant drugs as kids for ADHD have a much higher chance of ending up as drug users in adult life.

Fifth Fact:- These ADHD medications DO help children to stay calmer but unfortunately they will NOT teach your child self-management skills which is what ADHD is all about !

Basically, parents have some to understand only too well that the problems of ADHD and ODD will not disappear overnight. One consultant child psychologist, Dr. Noel Swanson, has developed series of parenting techniques which uses behavioral therapy as its base. He has developed a series of simple parenting techniques to help you get back in touch with your kids again.

Once you start applying these techniques, look what will happen !

* Children start to co-operate again
* Parenting can become fun again
* Behavior problems are fewer and fewer
* Children become polite and helpful
* Children are able to cope much better with daily tasks.

How Do These Homeopathic Medicines Work?

They are not cures but rather work as a balancing force so that mind and body can work together in harmony and in the case of ADHD, they will help to calm the child and reduce hyperactivity while also increasing attention span. There is no cure as such for ADHD but many symptoms can be relieved.

How Can I Tell A Reputable Supplier From A Charlatan?
Good question and perhaps the most important one! Some homeopathic substances are poisonous if they are not processed properly. You will need to find a reputable company which has been in existence for many years and can back its products with a guarantee. The company below offers a guarantee of one year. Furthermore you will want to know how and where the substances are manufactured and to what standards. You may want to know if it is a recognised facility (ie by the FDA) and whether they actually have qualified homeopaths working for them.

Aggressive Behavior ? Don't know what to do with this child behavior problem? .Here are some tools to help you when your children get in trouble for fighting at school or at home-and the right kinds of consequences to give them so they learn to use appropriate behavior instead of lashing out when they feel like hitting someone the next time. Read on to find out the steps you can take toward resolving the problem of fighting at school, plus get advice on how to handle fights that break out between siblings at home!

Aggressive Child Behavior Part II: 7 Tools to Stop Fighting in School and at Home

1.The Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychlogy was recently quoted as saying that he routinely sees NORMAL children on up to five psychiatric drugs!

2.Millions of dollars are spent on ADHD conventional medications and it is an enormous business for many drug companies, despite the FDA warnings which seem to pop up every month.Federal drug experts have just issued the umpteenth warning about the over prescription of these drugs for children and they use the words 'substantial risks'! Just to name a few :-possible heart problems, blood pressure,drug dependency,suppression of appetite, insomnia etc.

3.If you have just seen the price tag on prescription medication for ADHD such as Ritalin, Risperdal or Concerta, then you may start having legitimate doubts about whether this is really the way to treat ADHD. I know a student who has to fork out $150 a month just to pay for his Vyvanse ADHD
medication !

4.Conventional ADHD medications tend to suppress a child's appetite. If I were in this situation, I would be so worried about supplementing my child's diet and worrying about the correct amount of protein, vitamins and minerals that I would become crazy myself!

5. Ignore ADHD in children is just as risky - the child has a 1.5 times higher risk of being overweight or obese when compared to children who were not suffering from attention deficit disorder.

6.In just ten years the prescriptions for the most widely used drug (Ritalin) for ADHD children in the UK has risen from 4,000 to 360,000! This represents an enormous cost to the the National Health Service to the tune of 28 million.

7. There are other risks in letting ADHD go untreated:- children are at risk of dropping out at school, have sex at a very early age (very often unprotected with all the problems which that brings), be involved in road accidents and maybe start taking drugs.

8. Did you know that Adderall (its main component is Dextroamphetamine) is called 'dexies' in the high school parking lot and fetches quite a good price for teenagers selling it! That is why it is definitely not a good idea for teenagers and older children. There is a risk of becoming addicted to Adderall, other drug abuse, risk of impaired judgement when doing sports and loss of weight.

How about this for a scary post on an ADHD blog recently? A mother reports that her daughter had been given Ritalin for ADHD and as a result, got tics. She was then put on Clonidine for ADHD which worked fine for the tics. Now, the scary part is that IF she had been given both Ritalin and Clonidine, then she was at enormous risk as there have been deaths caused by this deadly combination. There have been up to four deaths reported - all four did have heart problems but should never have been given this combination. The only 'good' thing about Clonidine is that it does seem to help kids with sleep problems caused by the ADHD drugs.

The most alarming problem with psychostimulants in my view is the 'unknown factor'. There are no studies at all on the long term psychological effects on the child, not to mention the physical side effects. There is a wall of ignorance set up by the drug companies in hiding the truth about these highly hyped drugs and their failure in clinical trials. Silence is golden !

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Natural ADHD medicine sometimes consists in dosing children with vitamins and minerals which will give them a balanced nutritional diet. Obviously, this has to be approached with caution as certain supplements in massive doses could be damaging for a child's health. I often hear parents say that if is natural, well, it cannot have any side effects. This is only true if the correct dosage is given and indeed if the supplements themselves are manufactured according to the highest standards.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR:-

1. Is there any guarantee that the product will work and if not, can you have your money back? The link below this article is for a company that has a one year guarantee ! This immediately inspires confidence.

2. Is there any recognition by the FDA that this company is a registered one with them (the FDA of course will not guarantee the actual products). If it is approved by the FDA, then that means that the herbs or ingredients are guaranteed to come from safe and unpolluted fields and that processing is subject to international regulations.

3. They should also have GMP accreditation.

Another factor is COST ! Natural/homeopathic medicines are a fraction of the cost of conventional psychostimulants !

Could your marriage be suffering from sheer distraction? Is your partner distracted, disorganized and never listens to you ? It is estimated that many marriages are under threat because one of the partners has ADHD which has never been diagnosed, let alone treated. The non ADHD partner feels the brunt of having to carry all the responsibility. The seeming lack of concern, love and concern may just be ADHD! Melissa Orlov's book shows you how to rebuild the relationship in six steps. This is a MUST read for any couple struggling with ADHD.

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