ADD ADHD Alternative Medical Treatment

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What I’m going to discuss today is alternative medicines for ADHD, specifically the problems with alternative medicine. Now, many people think that I am against using conventional medicine for treating ADHD and that’s not true. It’s also not true that I’m completely pro using alternative medications for ADHD treatment. The truth is, I’m really for using appropriate treatment, whichever way that may go.

So what is the problem with ADHD treatment using alternative medicines? The real problem is that generally speaking, it’s not done properly.

What usually happens is this:

Some scientist will come out with a theory or bring some evidence that a certain treatment, say B6 or Omega 3 fatty acids cure ADHD or help with ADHD. Next, some other company will pick it up, take that treatment and make a special pill with all the things that people say work for ADHD and throw it all together.

The problem is this. In order to be effective, each of these treatments require the proper dosage in the proper amount for your child. If you read the research carefully, you’ll find that in order to have a proper dosage of each of the treatments that are put together in these concoctions, you would have to take 40 or 50 pills a day. Everything together will not fit in one capsule. It can’t.  There is not enough room.

But the because there are no controls over alternative medicine, these companies just take the research evidence, put stuff together and sell it to you as a treatment. This may work for a time, as most placebos do, or it may not.

That’s the smaller problem.

The big problem is that these alternative treatments are not controlled and some of these alternative treatments, in the wrong dosage for the wrong child, can be dangerous.

People think alternative medicine is safe, since it’s natural. That’s not true. There are many things that are natural that are dangerous.

Strychnine’s natural, cyanide’s natural, also hemlock is natural. There are all sorts of poisons out there that you can take. And even things like B6, a natural vitamin, can be dangerous in the wrong dosage. There are various things that these companies place in their alternative treatments that could be harmful to your child. And since there are no controls, there’s no guarantee you’re getting something that’s safe and something that will work.

So that’s the basic problem with alternative medicines. I recommend if you’re going to go the alternative route, and I do suggest you do that, at least look into this, then you have to know what’s going on. At the very least you need to follow somebody you can trust who will tell you the proper dosage, and really approach ADHD alternative medicine treatment scientifically, rather than just throw whatever capsule someone says is good for you to take today.

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