Treating Attention Deficit Disorder with alternate medicine

Treatments August 15th, 2008

Alternate medicine is the kind of healing which is not within the standard ways of treatment. For attention deficit children this would be the kind of treatment which is not the orthodox method of treatment for behavioral problems. Some believe that this problem is caused by dietary habits and because of this eliminate certain foods from the child’s diet. These are foods which contain preservatives and edible dyes. The other side of the coin is giving certain foods which are believed to be beneficial for this condition like herbal supplements such as Gingko biloba, supplements of amino acids and vitamin and glycol nutritional supplements. Though these are all herbal supplements it is always better to give children any kind of treatment under the supervision of a qualified medical practitioner and not experiment on ones own. Children are more susceptible to negative effects and care should be taken when giving them a new kind of treatment. Health care of children needs special attention.

Children with ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder lack planning capabilities and timing and have to be trained in this. For this the child requires metronome training along with other children so that they can keep a rhythmic beat along with a computer. This kind of training helps the child to improve in this area and if maintained regularly could improve the child’s deficiency in keeping up with the other children while paying attention to the rhythm. Research is being done in various methods of improving the child’s abilities and getting them out of the disorder. One such area is the levels of lead in the blood. Animals who had lead poisoning are known to be hyperactive and research is searching for a correlation in the hyperactivity of children and the lead levels in their blood.

Other areas of treatment which are being looked into are visual optometric training, candida yeast treatment and medication for motion sickness. These problems are linked to problems in the inner ear, sensitivity of the eyes and toxins which are produced because of excessive yeast in the system. However, research has not determined the exact cause of the problem and these are still in the rudimentary stages of experiments.

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