Are there alternatives to ADHD medicine for children?

Question

Are there alternatives to ADHD medicine for children?

Answer 1

Some parents are using these drugs just so they don't have to deal with their children, and that is very very sad. But if the child is actually suffering from it, their energy should just be channeled into something productive. Theres also benefit in improving the child's diet and learning how to raise a child properly.

Answer 2

My son has ADHD.  We tried medication, but the side effects were worse than the illness.  His teachers and I just tap his desk or his shoulder when he starts to get "antsy" to help him get back on task.  He also shakes his head from side to side when he starts getting bored, so we can head it off before he erupts.  There is also something I was taught to do when he was younger, called "tee touch".  Gently rub each of the child's cheeks (face) and speak quietly and calmly...calms him down quick!  Ask a psychiatrist for alternatives to meds.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

a belt...

Answer 5

As one with decades of experience in providing mental health care in communities, I can tell you that the best alternative is to lose the diagnosis, which, in itself, is a commercially grown label to promote irresponsibility in children and parents and to give pharmaceutical companies free  license to grow the most drug dependent generations ever known to mankind.  Once you re-introduce responsible and loving behavior in families, and get psychiatry OUT, you'll have great people again.  And remember, I have DECADES of first hand experience working with such families, and with psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies.  God Bless you.

Answer 6

Table sugar can aggravate ADHD in kids so if they reduce their intake of white sugar or refined sugar as in chocolate, icecream, lollies, desserts, cakes, cookies, biscuits and so on it might perhaps help.  See item 107 in http://www.rheumatic.org/sugar.htm .

Answer 7

How to instantly Calm the Patient Down from Hyperactivity

Restless children who also may not sleep well, may need:

- Zinc

- Maganese

- Vitamin B6

This is combined in the P-5-P Complex by Biocare, 1 capsule taken at breakfast, with food, increase to 2 capsules daily if results for Pyroluria/mauve factor are positive, {above 0.08um}

- Rife Frequency Machine 3+230 frequencies will instantly calm down the patient, these frequencies are also used for insomnia, and may make them fall asleep if used for too long {>2minutes} source Page 178 Rife Frequency Handbook by Dr. Nina Silver PhD. PERL is a good machine, resonantlight.com, rife.de, rifeforum.com, rife yahoo group.

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Intestinal Dysbiosis/Candida Overgrowth

‘All diseases begin in the gut’ Hippocrates 460-370BC

Mental illness starts not in the Brain but the Gut. Does your child have digestive problems like colic, bloating, flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation, and malnourishment {very skinny and find it difficult to put on weight?}, and has a white/yellow-coating on the tongue? Does he/she suffer from frequent headaches, mood swings, depression, fatigue, and other symptoms related to ‘candida overgrowth?’

A baby's gut is sterilised at birth, the species of yeasts/bacteria and their ratio are later determined by the environment, from say mother's breast milk {provides good bacteria}, dirt, food ect.

Candida Albicans can colonise the gut and cause intestinal dybiosis, they may be due to over-use or repeated use of antibiotics during the early years or for that matter, any time, even adults can develop candida overgrowth. Candida is harmful and undergoes fermentation by fermenting sugar, it releases 70 known toxins, much of which are neurotoxins which pass the blood-brain barrier and wreak havoc with the brain's normal biochemistry, manifesting as psychological problems, like ADHD, depending on the type/quantity of toxin(s) released, this affects mood accordingly, triggering hyperactivity for instance, like drug addicts can emulate with illicit drugs.

Further, candida also causes inflammation in the brain, which needs to be rectified with omega 3, strictly Nordic Natural or Carlson Brand, 2000mg - 3000mg per day, continue indefinitely, this increases IQ by making the brain cells more flexible {the ion channels}, makes hair shinny, and moistens the skin. These brands need to be refrigerated, and are pure/pharmaceutical grade.

Read 'Gut And Psychology Syndrome' By. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, NMedSci{neurology}, MMedSci{nutrition}

This doctor, who has a clinic in Cambridge for treating mental illnesses like Autism, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder. Her son suffered from Autism, she found the cure and the root cause, and believes that all mental illness can be cured.

Candida thrive on sugar, so Cut out all sugar, unstable/imbalanced blood sugar levels can cause depression and hyperactivity, replace table sugar with Xylitol {much more healthier and beneficial and tastes the same in the same portions! you wont notice too much of a difference, don’t go near NutraSweet or Aspartame, monosodium glutamate - avoid like the plague}.Cut out stimulants like caffeine, and soda soft drinks.

S. Boulardii is a good probiotic that flushes out candida from the body. Look into Kefir Making, this home-made free probiotic drink in itself will bring you much improvement in your mental health and well being, all you need is Kefir Grains to get started, google ‘Kefir Making’ and look at Doms Kefir Making website, it tells you everything you want/need to know.

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Allergies?

Go on the anti-candida diet and the anti -caesin/gluten/soy/wheat diet, try both and see how it goes, for atleast 1 week each or better combined. Source: 'The Yeast Connection' Book.

Replace wheat bread with Sour Dough bread, and give porridge for breakfast instead of wheat/carb rich cereal, with a glass of Kefir smoothie, 500ml of Kefir made from organic raw milk: add banana, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, 1 tablespoon of virgin cocconut oil, Ale Vera 1 teaspoon, 1 teaspoon of Xylitol, 1 Free-range egg {great for the immune system} and put this into a blender.

Drink Alkali water, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to every litre of purified water you drink, this will prevent disease and reduce the growth of Candida. Source: Mr X Acne e-book

Look also into Gerson Therapy/Juicing, this has cured many diseases, not just cancer, it will prevent/cure mental illness.

Start this asap, read 'A Cancer Therapy' by Dr. Max Gerson

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Getting to the ‘Cause’ of mental illness

Get blood/urine tests, to test for:

- Pyroluria, http://www.kryptopyrrole.com/

- Allergies, Allergies to certain foods can cause psychological problmes/mental instability, the most common offenders are Milk, Gluten, Egg, in that order, try eliminating each one for atleast 72hours and see how you feel.

- Candida Comprehensive Stool test, or D-Mannitol Urine Test {best and most accurate, bu hard to find a lab/scientist that does this, as its new}

Yoga, swimming, meditation, do something relaxing.

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Knowledge is Power

Watch the videos on youtube.com, type in 'psychetruth' and watch the 'Nutrition by Natalie' videos especially.

Take 3mg melatonin at night if you are having sleep problems. Since the circadian clock is usually out of synch. If this is the case, watch the sunrise, and set, for 30seconds-5minutes, this will help synchronise your clock and sleep patterns to normality.

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Food Additives, Drugs & Food Colouring

- Certain food colours causes ADHD type behaviour, look this up on google, and eliminate all foods that contain this.

- Prozac and other drugs can cause ADHD, ofte causing/aggrevating the symptoms they are supposed to be treating!

- Cut out all frozen and processed food, as much as possible, avoid foods with MSG, Aspartame in them, these are neurotoxins and kill brain cells, and can cause cancer. Source: Dr. Richard Braylock

- Eat homemade food, organic preferably, lots of dark green leafy vegetables, and begin Juicing fruit/veg, look into Gerson Therapy.

- "Researchers in aromatherapy are finding that essential oils containing large amounts of sequiterpenes - sandalwood, rosewood, and chamomile - provide tremedous benefits when rubbed on the skin." Source: Rife Handbook

- 'It has been found that when the atlas (the first cervical veterbra in the spin) is displaced, the resulting inched nerve cut off enough energy flow to help produce the varied and bizzare symptoms that are medically classified as ADD" Source: Rife Handbook

The quotes are direct from the book, Pg 184. I am not sure if I agree with 'aroma therapy' or the 'pinched nerve', but I decided to include it, as a possibility. I suppose Chiropracty will help with the 'pinched nerve' and a local aroma therapist can provide the oils.

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Fermented Foods & Probiotics

- Start making Water Kefir and Milk Kefir, doms website has it all, google it, also the yahoo kefir making group is good, and ebay to get the grains.

- Sour Dough Bread or Ezekiel/Sprouted grain bread is more nutritous, and healthy, less sugar/syrup, as in conventional store bread.

- FiveLac - 2 sachits per day

- Oxygen Elements Max - 7 drops per day, build up to 14 slowly, preferably taken away from bed time, as it can act as a stimulant, this oxygenates the body and stops/kills the candida infection, and promotes detox of the toxin load in the body, expect a Herxheimers Reaction.

- Oxy Powder, expensive, yet will oxygenate the intestines, optional supplement.

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Why does my Doctor/Psychiatrist not know this?

Conventional medicine is c**p at treating mental illness, alternative medicine has the answers. Just try it out first, regardless of what your Dr. will tell you. Just try it.

Psychiatrists make a lot of money from chronic life long mental illnesses, which they claim is genetic and incurable, which is a load of BS. Further drug companies make a lot of money from you; since most mental illness cannot be cured {according to the Doctors, since they are merely repeating what they learnt at med school} you have to stay on medication for a life-time {as maintenance}

Psychiatrists examine mental illness from various angles, although they are helpful, they do not address the cause of chronic mental illnesses. Psychiatrists will look at genetics, childhood experiences, and psychological influences, the last thing they will consider looking at is your digestive system. Strange that, since medical history gives plenty of examples where severe psychiatric conditions were cured simply by ‘cleaning out the patients gut'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLP0Ijo2C... Although stated for Autism, this works for many of the major/severe mental illnesses {like bipolar, schizophrenia, ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities ect}, as detailed in her book.

Highly Recommended Reading:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gut-Psychology-S...

Answer 8

There is a self help video with natural techniques " Being In Control: Natural Solutions For ADHD Dyslexia and Test Anxiety."  With Amazon.com . There is also biofeedback / neurofeedback.

Answer 9

I raised my ADHD son without prescription drugs.  It required a strick schedule/daily routine, and a strick diet.  It was trial and error to determine what foods caused him to spin out.  We learned to avoid processed sugars, white bread, and red dye.  

I believe it's a better path to have taught him, rather than teaching him that his answers to wellness are in a pill.  His friends who grew up taking ritalin are now addicted to other drugs as well.

Answer 10

things such as yoga, meditation are good for concentrating. not that im saying children should have it, but caffinie and nicotine are both stimulants. I have a.d.d. and i use concerta though.

Answer 11

Chiropractic care works extremely good for children with ADHD.  Very often just goes away completely.

Good luck, they have to be good and they have to do upper cervical work.

Answer 12

Yes.  Stop all forms of sugar other than fruit.    Diet is everything.  Who told you that your child had ADHD anyway?   A doctor???  A doctor trying to sell you meds???