healthykids
Today’s epidemic of
attention problems
in children have been
linked to everything
from artificial additives/
colors/preservatives
in food, food allergies,
heavy metal and pesticide
exposure, and maternal
alcohol use and smoking,
to an infant’s not crawling
enough, celiac disease
and genes. more, “Parents
and teachers today
seem to believe that any
boy who wriggles in his
Pay Attention!
seat and willfully defies
his teacher’s rules has
Natural Treatments for Add/
AdHd [attention deficit
AdHd
hyperactivity disorder],”
says elizabeth J. Roberts,
by Roon Frost
a medical doctor and child
drug dangers
enough. Stating that “misuse of amphet-
amines may cause sudden death and
psychiatrist in California.
Two years ago this month, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
serious cardiovascular adverse effects”
called for stronger warning labels for
is misleading, advises Sidney M. Wolfe,
“Well-intentioned but misinformed
stimulant drugs used to treat com-
a physician associated with the Health
teachers, parents using the Internet to
mon types of attention deficit disorder
Research Group, since it fails to tell pa-
diagnose their children, and hurried
(ADD). The biggest change applies to
tients that they may suffer sudden death
doctors are all part of a complex system
amphetamine-containing drugs for
even if they use these meds properly
that drives the current practice of misdi-
ADHD—Adderall and Dexedrine, as
but have certain heart conditions.
agnosing and overmedicating children,”
well as methylphenidates, such as Con-
Despite these concerns, the first
she notes. Roberts counsels that the
certa and Ritalin.
long-term study of preschoolers tak-
solution lies in the practice of good,
Although the warning on these
ing Ritalin found benefits, even while
conscientious medicine that is careful,
drugs is the strongest the FDA can man-
it warned of side effects ranging from
thorough and patient-centered.
date, many experts say it’s not strong
slowed growth to irritability and insomnia
Fortunately, as one recent study suggests, “Food supplement treatment of AdHd
may be of equal efficacy to Ritalin treatment.” All children, and especially those
with learning difficulties, benefit from a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement with
antioxidants, B complex and vitamin C.
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