Are there any holistic remedies for ADHD?

Dr. Lendon Smiths Feed your body right and Feed your Kids Right might be a help in this case. Let me explain. Sometimes ADD or ADHD hyperactivity disorder might be related to food allergy.

Allow me to go further. Some children become sensitive to certain additive, foods or combination of foods. Case in point was one that he used in his lectures of a child that was diagnosed with ADHD and no amount of medication would help.

The mom took her child to him in hopes of some explanation. And it turned out the child was so violent allergic to bananas that he went literally crazy after eating one. How did they know this, the mom carried a banana in her purse for him to eat while they were waiting.

How an allergic reaction works is amazing. Because it releases both histamine and adrenaline, the body becomes overloaded and hyper stimulated. Like you get an itch on the outside when you get a reaction or hives, imagine the same reaction going on inside the body on the nervous system.

You have the same itch, but now that manifests itself as hyperactivity. An itch you cannot scratch, literally. Many children who are falsely identified as having ADD or ADHD have never been screened for food allergies, environmental allergies.So from a Holistic/Naturopathic/CAM point of view, not all avenues have been exhausted to prove your child has it any of the hyperactivity disorders.

I I Have seen in my own practice many children and adults who it turns out has a simple food or environmental allergies, instead of adhd. Now how do you screen for food allergies.As a CAM practitioner we don’t use the a scratch or grid tests. What we need is a food diary.

Everyday write down everything that is eaten And note next to that what type of reaction.It doesn’t matter how small of an amount of food or what it is, write it down. As we go through the diary we will see trends in foods, or food combinations. Like a detective.

Then we will provide a simple diet for one or two days so we can test the foods that are suspect. It takes about two weeks in total to do this, sometimes it may take as little a few hours once we get a weeks worth of food diary. The most common trigger foods for hyperactivity that I have seen in my practice is Apples (often hybrid or genetically altered- GMO or cross bread), aspirin, bologna and certain other processed meats, peanut butter, milk, bananas, peaches, strawberries, certain soups, hidden caffeine in sodas, certain herbs like ginseng, ginko, acai, bilberry, some brands of children’s chewable vitamins.To each child it will be different the same with adults.

I knoew a patient who was so violently allergic to even the smell of tomatoes and tomato products that he would go violent. Once we got rid of that, and we found out by talking over lunch (quite embarrassing but very much welcomed) what was his trigger, we contacted his doctor immediately and his MD took him off his meds.It took two weeks and he was fine. So maybe after all this long-winded information, you may consider a food allergy diary and have someone look at it for triggers.

As to acupuncture, I have known only two acupuncturists that I trust for anything. And while I would say it would work, I don’t think with the amount of treatments that will be needed its really feasible. There are no herbs, purse’ that you can use effectively.

Since Hyperactivity disorders really require stimulants, called a counter irritant. Some may say that you can use certain ones, but always be leery. Julia Sherman DN, rPhT, DE.

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