| Relaxed parenting? If this seems like Utopia, read | | | | Ritalin. I think more research needs to be done on |
| on. It may not be so far fetched as you think | | | | that one! |
| especially if you are looking into the area of | | | | Doubts about ADHD meds |
| natural medicine for ADHD. This area of | | | | Given all the doubts about the conventional meds |
| treatment has often been overlooked or scorned | | | | for ADHD, many parents are looking very |
| as conventional medications are now prescribed in | | | | carefully at natural medicine for ADHD. They |
| millions across the western world. It is hard for | | | | know that some of the clinical trials on AHD meds |
| ADHD and natural medicine to get a look in but it | | | | are either incomplete or skewed. This was |
| is an area which has many opportunities to give | | | | revealed by Dr. John Ioannidis of the University of |
| us the chance to experience more relaxed | | | | Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece who studied |
| parenting. | | | | results of 130 drug trials. He claimed that side |
| Relaxed parenting is possible | | | | effects of drugs were played down. This was for |
| Relaxed parenting for me, simply means having | | | | all types of drugs but there are some ADHD |
| routines in place and that these are adhered to as | | | | drugs in the group. |
| far as possible. We also have some system of | | | | ADHD and natural medicine gaining ground |
| rewards and consequences and behavior charts | | | | This is one of the main reasons why parents are |
| as well. Once these are in place, parenting | | | | now turning to ADHD and natural medicine.. Quite |
| becomes a little easier because everyone in the | | | | simply they have discovered that ADHD |
| family is signed up to them. Whether we call this | | | | homeopathic remedies are effective in reducing |
| parenting skills or behavior modification, we now | | | | distractability and can lead to improvements in |
| know that this is the preferred method of | | | | child behavior. The great advantage is that there |
| treatment for ADHD and is recommended by the | | | | are no side effects and there is no need at all to |
| NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) and the | | | | worry about cardiac failure, depression, anxiety, |
| CDC, among others. | | | | eating disorders or insomnia, which may be some |
| Are dietary changes any use at all? | | | | of the side effects of the psychostimulants. That |
| What about natural medicine for ADHD? Even if | | | | alone makes this type of natural medicine for |
| we have good parenting skills in place, we are | | | | ADHD well worth considering. |
| going to have to give our AdHD children some | | | | So, there you have it. There is an alternative to |
| medicine as dietary changes are not enough, in | | | | the ADHD meds and ADHD homeopathic |
| my opinion although one study shows that it can | | | | remedies are the safest natural medicine for |
| be as effective in reducing ADHD symptoms as | | | | ADHD. Why not discover more? |